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Dear R People: I was wondering if there were any packages for parallel programming in R. According to the R-help, at one time there was a package called SNOW. It doesn't seem to exist anymore. Any help would be much appreciated! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess mailto: hodgess@gator.uhd.edu [[alternative(swapped) HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I have a question that I was wondering if anyone had a fairly straightforward answer to: what is the quickest and easiest way to take advantage of the extra cores / processors that are now commonplace on modern machines? And how do I do that in Windows? I realise that this is a complex question that is not answered easily, so let me refine it some more. The type of scripts that I'm

Hi all, I'm trying to get the snow package with mpi working on my linux ubuntu 10.04 machine. When I tried to install it (see below) it already had problems with the dependencies. R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You

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

I've got another edition of my simulation replication framework. I'm attaching 2 R files and pasting in the readme. I would especially like to know if I'm doing anything that breaks .Random.seed or other things that R's parallel uses in the environment. In case you don't want to wrestle with attachments, the same files are online in our SVN

Dear all, I usually run R on my laptop with Windows XP Professional. Now I really want to run R on a computer cluster (4 processors) with Suse Linux Enterprise ver. 10. But I am new with computer cluster. Should I modify my functions in order to use the greater performance and availability than that provided by my laptop? Is there any R manual on parallel computations on

Hi, I am in trying to get a new Linux Cluster. I am thinking about putting R on it. Does anyone have any experience with running R on a distributed Linux Cluster? Or does R support a cluster environment at all. Any pitfall I should really watch out for? Thanks in advance Apollo

Anyone using or has access to ParallelR? I was looking at the page and found nothing really useful! http://www.revolution-computing.com/sitegenius/topic.php?id=195 I want to see if I can run R on a cluster of workstation, and use batch systems like Grid Engine or Xgrid: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ http://ww.apple.com/acg/xgrid/ --Chi

Dear All, The "clients.txt" file of the latest Rserve package, by Simon Urbanek, says, regarding its R client, "(...) a simple R client, i.e. it allows you to connect to Rserve from R itself. It is very simple and limited, because Rserve was not primarily meant for R-to-R communication (there are better ways to do that), but it is useful for quick interactive connection to an

Hi, does anybody know how to use the dual processors in the machines of a cluster? I am using R with rpvm and snow packages. I usually start pvm daemon and add host machines first, and then run R to start my computing work. But I find that only one processor in each machine is used in this way and the other one always stays idle. Is there any simple way to tell pvm to use the two processors at

Dear R-users, we are using library(snow) for computation on a linux cluster with RMPI. We have a problem with clusterEvalQ: after launching clusterEvalQ it seems loading the required library on each node but if we type a function belonging to the loaded package R doesn't find it. > library(snow) # making cluster with 3 nodes > cl <- makeCluster(3, type = "MPI") Loading

HI, I am a studient, so don't be surprise if my question seems so simple for you... I have a dataframe with 6 qualitative variables divided in 33 modalities, 2 qualitatives variables and 78 lines. I use a glm to know wich variables have interactions... I would like to know if its normal that one (the first in alphabetical order) of the modalities of each qualitatives variable doesn't

Hi folks, is it possible to read more things about R behavior in multiprocessor / multihost environment ? Is there any distributed computation project associated to it ? Laurent

Dear all, does anyone know if there exists an effort to bring some kind of distributed computing to R? The most simple functionality I'm after is to be able to explicitly perform a task on a computing server. Sorry if this is a non-informed newbie question... Best regards Anders Sj?gren PhD Student Dept. of Mathematical Statistics Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden

Guys, I'm running R on both Windows & Linux. I'm looking at a number of packages for parallel execution. It seems that the most used packages are "snow" and "Rmpi". snow seems more user friendly, but it doesn't run on windows. I see from searching the mailing list that I'm not the first one to try it on Windows. There was a message that kind of shed some

Dear all, I am managing a departmental purchase of an Opteron based workstation/server for scientific computing on which we will be running R. The environment will probably be either Unix/Linux or Solaris and the amount of RAM will be 8-16Gb, depending on the number of processors. My main concerns are the following: 1. How much does R benefit from passing from one processor to two/four

Dear all, We have started using R for data analysis since a few months and find it useful. We are planning to acquire a high-end dedicated system for microarray data analysis and thinking of a distributed environment. I would appreciate if some one could send some pointers regarding how to choose a proper hardware configuration, software (R or other software, esp. MATLAB), issues on setting up

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");

Evening folks: I did an install.views of finance and econometrics and between the two of them R reported 'FracSim', 'RDCOMClient', 'snow', 'VGAM', and 'segmented' as missing dependencies. Now, I've managed to hunt down what appear to be current zip file copies of all of the packages but 'snow'. Is there a windows edition of the package out

Hi Guys, I would like to share my experience when installing the Spatial views packages for R. I could not install 32 packages which are parts of the Spatial views, and I use google-search and search to solve ALL those problems for about 2 days. I hope maybe somebody would benefit from my experience. I admitted that I do not have excellent programming skills at all. So, perhaps some of