Hi Markus, Many thanks. Is the "cluster" variable you mention below available in the environment of the nodes ? Specifically, within that environment, how could one identify the rank of that specific node ?
My code would use that information to partition the problem. Thanks, Tolga Markus Schmidberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/09/2008 07:11 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc r-help@r-project.org Subject Re: [R] cluster/snow question Hi Tolga, in SNOW you have to start a cluster with the command > library(snow) > cluster <- makeCluster(#nodes) The object "cluster" is a list with an object for each node and each object again is a list with all informations (rank, comm, tags) The size of the cluster is the length of the list. > #nodes == length(cluster) E.g. the rank for node one you can get by > cluster[[1]]$rank Best Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Dear R Users, > > I am attempting to use the snow package for clustering. 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