similar to: snow::makeCluster on Windows hangs

Dear Luke and others, I have many R versions on my machine and want to start a particular one when snow builds its cluster. (The same version I start snow from.) It seems that everything is set up correctly in defaultClusterOptions: > mget(ls(defaultClusterOptions), defaultClusterOptions) $homogeneous [1] TRUE $manual [1] FALSE $master nodename "maya.unil.ch" $outfile [1]

When trying to create (a very simple) cluster using makeSOCKcluster or makeCluster I get the following error message: > library(snow) > cl <- makeSOCKcluster("localhost") Fatal error: kann Datei '~/R/i686-suse-linux-gnu-library/2.8/snow/RSOCKnode.R' nicht ?ffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (translation: could not open file [...]: File or directory not

Dear list, I just realized that one of the examples given in the help page to the function makeCluster of the library(snow) has a small syntax error : ## to get started library(snow) ?makeCluster .. will open a halp page containing the command towards the end of the examples : cl <- makeCluster(c(rep(list(macOptions), 2), rep(list(lnxOptions), 2), rep(list(winOptions),

Hello, I was using snow to parallel-process some code in R-2.10 (32-bit windows. ). The code is as follows: require(foreach) require(doSNOW) cl <- makeCluster(6, type='SOCK') registerDoSNOW(cl) bl2 <- foreach(i=icount(length(unqmrno))) %dopar% { (some code here) } stopCluster(cl) When I run the same code in Windows R-2.11 (either 32-bit or 64-bit), R hangs at

Hi, I am attempting to implement a mixed (windows/linux) snow sockets parallelism in R, but am running into difficulties similar to a post made Aug 31, 2006 under the same subject heading. I feel like I may be one or two non-obvious steps away from getting it all working, but I'm stuck. If anyone can shed some light on this (I believe Prof. Tierney stated that he has successfully run a

Thanks to Luke Tiernay and some experimenting I found out some issues. I don't claim this infomation is complete, but it may be helpful for anyone experimenting with SNOW on Linux: - environment variables PATH and R_SNOW_LIB need to be set on master and slaves. (manually or permanent in ~/.bashrc (adjust your pathnames accordingly). Don't use ~ for home directory, instead specify

Hi all, I would like to know what would happen if using snow I create a cluster of size 50, for example using makeCluster(50,type='SOCK') on a machine with 2 Cores and run a function. Does snow run 25 and 25 functions on each of my 2 "real" processors or it just run 50 functions in one processor ? Thanks.

Hi all, I can't get the functionality of the package parallel to work. Specifically, makeCluster() hangs when I run it. I first noticed the problem when trying to run Rstan with multiple cores and the traced it back to the core package parallel. The following results in R hanging after the call to makeCluster. library(parallel) # Calculate the number of cores no_cores <-

Good day, I'm trying the example cl <- makeCluster(2, type = "SOCK") from the makeCluster documentation and the R command prompt never returns. I am using a 32-bit Windows 10 computer. The problem doesn't happen on another 64-bit Windows 10 computer but does happen on another 32-bit Windows 7 computer. Can anyone reproduce it? Are there any other options that can be passed to

Dear Henrik, thank you, for the quick reply. Bizarrely enough, the problem vanished when I woke the computer from sleep (I had previously replicated the problem after several restarts of both R and the MacOS). I will follow-up if I can again replicate the problem. Florian On 2/10/18 4:39 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > A few quick comments: > > * You mention R --vanilla, but make sure

(Bcc: CRAN) This is a proposal helping CRAN and alike as well as individual developers to avoid stray R processes being left behind that might be produced when an example or a package test fails to set up a parallel::makeCluster(). ISSUE If a package test sets up a PSOCK cluster and then the master process dies for one reason or the other, the PSOCK worker processes will remain running for 30

Hi, all-- I've been working on a doParallel package to provide a foreach parallel backend for the new parallel package, but I am having trouble building the vignette. On my system, if I use the following minimal vignette (call it buggyVignette.Rnw): \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \title{Sweave Example 1} \author{Rich Calaway} \begin{document} \maketitle In this example

I have a network of four machines set up. I'm having trouble spawning my slaves on these machines. All the examples I have found so far use makeCluster with type="MPI", and I guess I'm missing some kind of cluster configuration in my environment variables because all my clusters are formed on the machine where my initial session is running. Can anyone refer me to a link that

Dear all, I found a strange thing with the snow package. This will work: y = matrix(1:4, 2) cl = makeCluster(rep('localhost', 8), type='SOCK') parMM(cl, y, y) This will not: y = matrix(1:4, 2) ncore = system('nproc') parMM(cl, y, y) Error in cut.default(i, breaks) : invalid number of intervals I also tried: cl = makeCluster(rep('localhost', ncore),

Dear All, I have three classes of questions about generating random numbers with different packages (windows xp 32bit R). . 1. Suppose I would like to use package *foreach*, can I use current Sys.time as a seed? Although I can get the time up to1e-6 second precesion, the code below dose not work well on a local machine with two cores. ################# library(foreach) library(snow)

There are a few points I found unclear or unmentioned in the snow documentation (mostly I looked at the cluster.html web page). I thought I'd mention them here. What is the start up environment for the children? -------------------------------------------------- My best guess at the answer is in parentheses Do they inherit shell variables? (no) Do they inherit variables set in R or other

Hi Everybody, I know that R has snow package which can be used for Parallel Computing. However, every time I try making a cluster, the only type of cluster I'm able to make is the "SOCK" (that too because I disabled the firewalls). For the rest (i.e. MPI, NWS, and PVM), I get error every time I try making one. I get the following errors

Dear list, i have some problems using the snow package to create a SOCK cluster. The errors just occour irregularly but it seems to me that they occour when I try to create more than one cluster on the same machine via different R instances started via submitting LSF jobs to a cluster. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this or where to start digging for solutions? The error messages

hello, I'm using R 1.8.1 with the lastest snow package on FreeBSD 4.9. However, when I try to using socket clusters, it's very unstable. Sometimes it dies half way when I run parSapply(), sometimes it dies when cluster connection is idle. I create a socket cluster by following cmd cl = makeCluster("foo", type = "SOCK", outfile="/tmp/rafanlog");

Hi all, I am quite new in the world of parallelization and I wonder if there is a way to increase the speed of creation of a parallel socket cluster. The time spend to include threads increase exponentially with the number of thread considered and I use of computer with two 8 cores CPU and thus showing a total of 32 threads in windows 7. Currently, I use the default parameters (type =