Similar experience, with snow & MPI (LAM). Actually, plug and play. G.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Eric W Anderson wrote: > Hi Dan, > > I've had pretty good luck using Snow with with Rpvm. It's definitely > not what you'd call "plug and play," but it does work. I'm using it on > a single computer to just take advantage of multiple processors, and it > does a pretty good job of keeping them busy. The main gotchas I've > found with Snow are in data dissemination: You may have to > clusterCall(cl, "require(foo)") or clusterExport(cl,bar) more things > than you would have expected. > > -Eric > > > -- > Eric W. Anderson University of Colorado > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science > phone: +1-720-984-8864 Systems Research Lab - ECCR 1B54 > > PGP key fingerprints: > personal: 1BD4 CFCE 8B59 8D6E EA3E EBD5 4DC9 3E61 656C 462B > academic: D3C5 D6FF EDED 9F1F C36D 53A3 74B7 53A6 3C74 5F12 > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ 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.
