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Dear Friends, I'm trying to learn to use parallel computation using snow & rpvm Now, I have two boxes: 1) Pentium 4, pvm 3.4.5, R 2.2.0 with FreeBSD 5.4 (box uffbsd); 2) PowerPC, pvm 3.4.5, R 2.1.1 with Debian Linux latest stable (box powerpclinux); I'm using the instructions in (found in snow.pdf) http://www.stat.uiowa. edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html. Now ** from the box

At office, using the internal LAN at my disposal, I'm having a go at parallel computing - to begin with - with pvm, rpvm & snow. The two boxes are as follows Remote machine uffbsd: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1994.13-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 real memory = 260046848 (248 MB) This machine NbBSD: CPU: Mobile Intel(R)

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)

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

Hello, I am trying to do model autocalibration using the snow and rgenoud packages. The function I want to run in task-parallel fashion across multiple machines is one that pre- and post-processes data and runs an external model code. My problem is that external file I/O is happening only in the master node and not in the slaves. I have followed Jasjeet Sekhon's suggestion to test the

Hello All, I can run the "lower level" functions OK, but many of the higher level (eg. parSApply) functions are generating errors. When running the example (from the snow help docs) for parApply on MacOSX 10.5.5, I get the following error: cl <- makeSOCKcluster(c("localhost","localhost")) sum(parApply(cl, matrix(1:100,10), 1, sum)) Error in

Hello, After getting help to solve part of my problem and some delay on my part, I am posting a more refined version to see if someone can help me further. I am trying to autocalibrate a model in my subject area using the snow and rgenoud packages. I want to use the key function "fn" that is called by genoud() to finalize input, run the model executable, and compute the objective

I've been using parApply() in snow package for parallel computing with the following lines in R 2.8.1: library(snow) nNodes <- 4 cl <- makeCluster(nNodes, type = "SOCK") fm <- parApply(cl, myData, c(1,2), func1, ...) Since I have a Mac OS X (version 10.4.11) with two dual-core processors, I thought that I could run 4 simultaneous clusters. However with the 1st job

Hi, The following function use to work, but now it doesn't giving the error "> CallSnow(, 100) Using snow package, asking for 2 nodes 2 slaves are spawned successfully. 0 failed. Error in checkForRemoteErrors(val) : 2 nodes produced errors; first error: no applicable method for 'lapply' applied to an object of class "list" ". Where this is the

Hi Greg, I don't know if this is related to your problem, but I get the same error (on both ubuntu and fedora linux, R 2.9) and just found a very curious behaviour - snowfall apply functions don't like the variable name "c". E.g.: c<-1 sfLapply(1:10, exp) issues the same error you had posted, while subsequent rm("c") sfLapply(1:10, exp) runs fine. Rainer

Dear R Users, I am attempting to use snow with rmpi. My configuration is: - R Version 2.7.2, rmpi - RMPI 0.5-6 - DeinoMPI 1.1.0 - Windows Xp SP2 I can sucessfully create a cluster and execute simple commands but for some reason, I cannot change the working directory in my nodes. > noclusters<-2 > cl <- makeCluster(noclusters, type = "MPI") 2 slaves are spawned

I'm using /parApply/() function in "snow" package for parallel computing (boostrapping repeating calculation), as the follows: MyBoostrapping <- function( i ){ ..... } cl <- makeCluster( ncluster, type = "SOCK") i.circle <- as.matrix( 1:128, , 1) parApply( cl, i.circle, 1, FUN = MyBoostrapping) It works. However, I want to set more than one arguments to

I've started to use the parallel package and it works very well speeding things up. Thank you for making this easy to do. Should I have expected that parCapply would return a vector when parApply returns a matrix? library(parallel) x <- matrix(rnorm(8), nc = 2) apply(x, 2, function(y) y) [,1] [,2] [1,] -0.9649685 0.91339851 [2,] -1.4313140 0.13457671 [3,] 1.0499248

I am trying to run a monte carlo process using snow with a MPI cluster. I have ~thirty processors to run the algorithm on and I want to run it 5000 times and take the average of the output. A very simple way to do this is to divide 5000 by the number of processors to get a number n and tell each processor to run the algorithm n times. I realize there are more efficient ways to manage the

Dear R users, we are trying to do some parallel computing using library(snow). In particular we have a cluster with 3 nodes >cl <- makeCluster(3, type = "MPI") 3 slaves are spawned successfully. 0 failed. and we want to compute the function op_mat (see below) first with the master and then with the cluster using system.time for checking the computational performance.

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

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

Dear R-devel, Inspired by Michael Li's talk at JSM, I decided to try rpvm and snow on our two linux boxes. It only took me a couple of hours of screwing around to get it working (sooner if I had RTFM). Our setup is: 2 dual PIII-866 Xeons, one with 2GB RDRAM, the other with 1.28GB RDRAM. The first machine is acting as the NIS/NFS server. both /usr and /home are exported to the second

Hi all, I am trying to use snow package to do a parallel MCMC. I have read a few guides and articles, the following is that I came up with. When I run it I got the error message: Error in checkForRemoteErrors(lapply(cl, recvResult)) : 4 nodes produced errors; first error: could not find function "ui.Next" The data is a longitudinal data with few repeated readings on a number of

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");