Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel on Windows Never Ends

2018-06-14 Thread Martin Morgan
yes it would be useful to post this to R-devel as a 'using parallel::makeCluster() question, removing BiocParallel from the equation, where some general insight might be had... Martin On 06/13/2018 05:00 PM, Dario Strbenac wrote: Good day, I couldn't get a working param object. It never comp

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel on Windows Never Ends

2018-06-13 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, I couldn't get a working param object. It never completes the command param = bpstart(SnowParam(2, manager.hostname = "144.130.152.1", manager.port = 2559)) I obtained the IP address by typing "My IP address" into Google and it gave me the address shown. I used netstat -an and P

Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocParallel on Windows Never Ends

2018-06-13 Thread Martin Morgan
It's more likely that it never starts, probably because it tries to create socket connections on ports that are not available, or perhaps because the file path to the installed location of the BiocParallel package is on a network share, or the 'master' node needs to be specified with an IP addr

[Bioc-devel] BiocParallel on Windows Never Ends

2018-06-12 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, I was interested how the performance of my package is on a 32-bit Windows computer because I'm going to give a workshop about it soon and some people might bring old laptops. I found that using SnowParam with workers set to more than 1 never finishes. The minimal code to cause the iss