[R] Snow/openmpi

[Martin Morgan]

bfoubert <b.foubert at maastrichtuniversity.nl> writes:

> I'm running R/snow on a small cluster with opensuse, openmpi, and openshh. I
> start up R with "mpirun -n 1 R --no-save". That works but it strikes me how
> easily I get kicked out of R whenever I run into syntax errors. Is there a
> way to avoid this, for instance, by starting up a regular R session and
> invoking/activating(?) openmpi within R, e.g. by passing on extra arguments
> to the makeCluster function?

Does this

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-hpc/2009-May/000233.html

help?

Martin

>
> Thanks to all who make parallel computing also possible for applied
> statisticians.
> bram foubert

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