greetings all, this may be the wrong forum for my problem - if so please advise. i am addressing this list because of an error i am getting from the snow library rmpi (i think) after lam has booted the mpi nodes i have a script (provided by a faculty member - i am not an R user but have the task of making it run scucessfully as a batch job on the gridengine) that runs with success as an interactive shell script, can be run interactively using qrsh on a sun gridengine, but fails when submitted to the gridengine as a batch job. the lam/mpi nodes boot and shutdown properly via a parallel environment defined in the gridengine. where the job falls flat is when the snow RMPInode.sh script is called - or so it seems. the error generated is: ___ /usr/local/lib/R.framework/Versions/2.0.0/Resources/library/snow/ RMPInode.sh: line 9: 13465 Trace/BPT trap (core dumped) ${RPROG:-R} --vanilla >${OUT:-/dev/null} 2>&1 <<EOF library(Rmpi) library(snow) runMPIslave() EOF ___ environment is darwin (panther 10.3.8), r version is 2.0.0, gridengine version is 5.3. i get the feeling this is not an r problem, but if you used r in batch mode in a parallel environment maybe you could point me in the right direction.i also realize that many factors could contibute to this error, but to be able to rule out r (or the snow library) would be helpful. thanks in advance, mark+ \ ucsf biostat -- mark garey ucsf department of epidemiology and biostatistics 500 parnassus ave, mu420w san francisco, ca. 94143 415-502-8870