On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Martin Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Rainer M Krug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to utilize my dual core processor (and later a
>> High-performance clusters (HPC) ) by using the Rmpi, snow, snowfall,
>> ... packages, but I am struggling at the beginning, i.e. to initialise
>> the "cluster" on my dual core computer. Whenever I try to initialize
>> it (via sfInit(parallel=TRUE, cpus=2) or mpi.spawn.Rslaves(nslaves=2)
>> ), I get an error message:
>>
>>> sfInit(parallel=TRUE, cpus=2)
>> Forced parallel. Using session: XXXXXXXXR_rkrug_143706_092708
>>
>> Error in mpi.comm.spawn(slave = mpitask, slavearg = args, nslaves = count,  :
>>   MPI_Comm_spawn is not supported.
>> Error in sfInit(parallel = TRUE, cpus = 2) :
>>   Starting of snow cluster failed! Error in mpi.comm.spawn(slave =
>> mpitask, slavearg = args, nslaves = count,  :
>>   MPI_Comm_spawn is not supported.
>>
>> and
>>
>>> mpi.spawn.Rslaves(nslaves=2)
>> Error in mpi.spawn.Rslaves(nslaves = 2) :
>>   You cannot use MPI_Comm_spawn API
>
> This error comes from Rmpi,
>
>> head(mpi.spawn.Rslaves, 6)
>
> 1 function (Rscript = system.file("slavedaemon.R", package = "Rmpi"),
> 2     nslaves = mpi.universe.size(), root = 0, intercomm = 2, comm = 1,
> 3     hosts = NULL, needlog = TRUE, mapdrive = TRUE)
> 4 {
> 5     if (!is.loaded("mpi_comm_spawn"))
> 6         stop("You cannot use MPI_Comm_spawn API")
>
> and occurs when the compiler variable MPI2 is undefined when your

> package is installed. Likely this means that your mpi installation is
> either old (unlikely?) or that your Rmpi installation failed to
> properly detect the installed mpi version. It's difficult to know
> which, without more information on how the mpi and Rmpi installations
> went, at a minimum the result of R's sessionInfo() command and mpirun
> --version but likely including the output of Rmpi's installation.

Version:
lamboot -V

LAM 7.1.2/MPI 2 C++/ROMIO - Indiana University

        Arch:           i486-pc-linux-gnu
        Prefix:         /usr/lib/lam
        Configured by:  buildd
        Configured on:  Sun Mar 23 08:07:16 UTC 2008
        Configure host: rothera
        SSI rpi:        crtcp lamd sysv tcp usysv

Below find the session info and the info from the instalaltion of Rmpi.

In the install log from Rmpi, it says:
checking whether MPICH2 is declared... no
checking whether MPICH2 is declared... (cached) no

So what went wrong? Do I have to start the "cluster" on the dual-core machine?
Can I set the compiler variable MPI2 manually?

> version
               _
platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i486
os             linux-gnu
system         i486, linux-gnu
status
major          2
minor          7.2
year           2008
month          08
day            25
svn rev        46428
language       R
version.string R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
>
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
i486-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_ZA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_ZA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_ZA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_ZA.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_ZA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] snow_0.3-3    Rmpi_0.5-5    snowfall_1.53

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.7.2
>
> install.packages(c("Rmpi"), dep=TRUE, repo="http://cbio.uct.ac.za/CRAN/";)
Warning in install.packages(c("Rmpi"), dep = TRUE, repo =
"http://cbio.uct.ac.za/CRAN/";) :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
trying URL 'http://cbio.uct.ac.za/CRAN/src/contrib/Rmpi_0.5-5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 94643 bytes (92 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 92 Kb

* Installing *source* package 'Rmpi' ...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
I am here /usr/lib/mpich and it is MPICH
Try to find mpi.h ...
Found in /usr/lib/mpich/include
Try to find libmpi.so or libmpich.a
Found libmpich in /usr/lib/mpich/lib
##########################################
checking whether MPICH2 is declared... no
checking whether MPICH2 is declared... (cached) no
##########################################
checking for openpty in -lutil... yes
checking for main in -lpthread... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0 -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0
-I/usr/lib/mpich/include  -DMPICH -fPIC     -fpic  -g -O2 -c
conversion.c -o conversion.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0 -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0
-I/usr/lib/mpich/include  -DMPICH -fPIC     -fpic  -g -O2 -c
internal.c -o internal.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0 -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0
-I/usr/lib/mpich/include  -DMPICH -fPIC     -fpic  -g -O2 -c
RegQuery.c -o RegQuery.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\"
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0 -DHAVE_DECL_MPICH2=0
-I/usr/lib/mpich/include  -DMPICH -fPIC     -fpic  -g -O2 -c Rmpi.c -o
Rmpi.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared  -o Rmpi.so conversion.o internal.o RegQuery.o
Rmpi.o -L/usr/lib/mpich/lib -lmpich -lutil -lpthread -fPIC
-L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
** R
** demo
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'Rmpi'
     Formats: text html latex example
  hosts                             text    html    latex
  internal                          text    html    latex
  mpi.abort                         text    html    latex
  mpi.apply                         text    html    latex   example
  mpi.barrier                       text    html    latex
  mpi.bcast                         text    html    latex
  mpi.bcast.Robj                    text    html    latex
  mpi.bcast.cmd                     text    html    latex
  mpi.cart.coords                   text    html    latex   example
  mpi.cart.create                   text    html    latex   example
  mpi.cart.get                      text    html    latex   example
  mpi.cart.rank                     text    html    latex   example
  mpi.cart.shift                    text    html    latex   example
  mpi.cartdim.get                   text    html    latex   example
  mpi.comm                          text    html    latex   example
  mpi.comm.disconnect               text    html    latex
  mpi.comm.free                     text    html    latex
  mpi.comm.inter                    text    html    latex
  mpi.comm.set.errhandler           text    html    latex
  mpi.comm.spawn                    text    html    latex
  mpi.const                         text    html    latex
  mpi.dims.create                   text    html    latex   example
  mpi.exit                          text    html    latex
  mpi.finalize                      text    html    latex
  mpi.gather                        text    html    latex   example
  mpi.gather.Robj                   text    html    latex   example
  mpi.get.count                     text    html    latex
  mpi.get.processor.name            text    html    latex
  mpi.get.sourcetag                 text    html    latex
  mpi.info                          text    html    latex
  mpi.init.sprng                    text    html    latex
  mpi.intercomm.merge               text    html    latex
  mpi.parSim                        text    html    latex
  mpi.parapply                      text    html    latex   example
  mpi.probe                         text    html    latex
  mpi.realloc                       text    html    latex
  mpi.reduce                        text    html    latex
  mpi.remote.exec                   text    html    latex   example
  mpi.scatter                       text    html    latex   example
  mpi.scatter.Robj                  text    html    latex   example
  mpi.send                          text    html    latex   example
  mpi.send.Robj                     text    html    latex
  mpi.sendrecv                      text    html    latex   example
  mpi.setup.rng                     text    html    latex
  mpi.spawn.Rslaves                 text    html    latex   example
  mpi.universe.size                 text    html    latex
  mpi.wait                          text    html    latex
** building package indices ...
* DONE (Rmpi)

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpdX6zlZ/downloaded_packages
>

>
> Dirk Eddelbuettel
> (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-September/050665.html)
> suggested that snow's makeSOCKcluster is an easier starting point for
> single computer 'clusters' or other configurations where significant
> system administration is not desired -- these should work without
> additional software on most systems, even if more limiting in the long
> term (in my opinion). See, e.g., the examples on the help page for
> clusterApply for basic operation. A bit oddly, apparently the
> 'snowfall' package restricts snow's functionality to mpi clusters. So
> you might start with snow directly.
>
> Martin
>
>>
>> I followed the pdf "Developing parallel programs using snowfall" by
>> Jochen Knaus,. installed the relevant libraries and programs, but it
>> does not work.
>>
>> I am stuck.
>>
>> Any help appreciated,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
>> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>>
>> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
>> Faculty of Science
>> Natural Sciences Building
>> Private Bag X1
>> University of Stellenbosch
>> Matieland 7602
>> South Africa
>>
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>
> --
> Martin Morgan
> Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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>
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>



-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Faculty of Science
Natural Sciences Building
Private Bag X1
University of Stellenbosch
Matieland 7602
South Africa

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