[R] running Rmpi with SGE on a cluster

[Jérémie Juste]

Hello,

Many thanks to you.

Best regards,

Jeremie



On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett using fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> David Winsemius <dwinsemius using comcast.net> writes:
>
> >> On Jul 1, 2018, at 6:32 AM, Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to know how to use Rmpi on a cluster but usually the
> >> workflow of the cluster uses sun grid engine to launch jobs.
> >>
> >> I found this reference on the web
> >> http://borisv.lk.net/howtos/grid-mpi-r-howto.html.
> >>
> >> But I could not even reproduce that example some errors with
> >>> n.cores <- mpi.universe.size()
> >>
> >
> > "Some errors"? I'm not sure how you could be any more vague.
> >
> >
> >> But regardless of this error do you have any resources on running R on a
> >> cluster?
>
> In keeping with the vagueness of the posting, I can contribute my
> experience that installing Rmpi on a cluster is in general not trivial.
> You potentially have to ensure that your are using the correct
> combination of compiler and MPI implementation to build the packages and
> then ensure that the environment is correspondingly set up for the jobs
> you submit to the cluster.
>
> I would maintain that installing Rmpi should normally be done by the
> cluster administrator and the he/she should then be able to provide the
> users with the information about how to use it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> --
> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett using fu-berlin.de
>



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Jérémie Juste

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