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Hi, I have few high-level questions about the Snow and Rmpi packages . I understand that Snow uses Rmpi as one of possible transport layers, yet my questions about user experience, not technical details: 1. Does Snow install and work well in Windows? 2. Interruptibility. I understand that currently it is impossible to interrupt a running top-level command in Snow ( Ctl-c or the likes), the

Dear R Gurus: Is there a problem with Rmpi on x86 with SUSE 10.1, please? I've tried everything and it still won't load. Has anyone else dealt with this please? Thanks, Edna Bell

...and it recognizes all nodes defined in the lamhosts file. However, when starting R, launching the 'snow' package and making a cluster including several nodes, everything is blocked. It seems that Rmpi cannot be started in the nodes which have a different architecture. I have to do 'lamhalt' on the first node of the cluster so that R is stopped on the master computer. On the other hand, using 'snow' and 'Rmpi' on an homogeneous cluster works pretty fine. I read on the 'snow' documentation that for non-homogeneous clusters of computers different settings...