I hope to get a new version of snow released in a couple of weeks that will work on Windows using a Windows Rmpi version or, at least on a local machine, a socket interface.
luke On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Greg Snow wrote: > >> Someone else suggested the snow package, but I don't think it is available >> for windows. > > It is. From http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.6/ReadMe > > Although the packages > ROracle, and snow > pass make check, it seems to be dangerous to distribute them: > I do not have the software available these packages depend on. > > It compiles from the sources, and using snow alone you can run socket > clusters on Windows (by default it expects ssh to be running, and Windows > machines rarely run an ssh daemon so as to accept incoming ssh). The caution > is that the packages runs no tests so needs manual intervention to test it, > and in particular most people will want to run snow over Rmpi which does not > compile on Windows without more software (and some effort). > > It might be worth modifying snow to more easily run multiple processes on a > single machine. > > >> I have been able to get the nws package to work on a duel core machine >> using windows and it did speed up my tests (and was fairly straight forward >> to use). > > Dueling cores can be apt .... > >> ________________________________ >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rees, David >> Sent: Fri 1/11/2008 7:28 AM >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] Is R on Windows multi-threaded >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> A previous thread suggests that R on Windows is multi-threaded >> >> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/03b/6946.html >> >> When I'm running R 2.5.1 on a dual core pc I get Rgui.exe uses up to 50% >> of the available cpu and the rest is not used. i.e. it only uses one >> cpu. I'm soon going to get a nice shiny new 8 cpu machine which it would >> be very nice to fully utilize. >> >> Is there any way to get R to use all the cpus - should this happen >> automatically? >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Regards, >> David >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- Luke Tierney Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
