Hi Elijah, Thanks for the reply. I'm aware of almost all of those things you mentioned, and have played with some of them. I'm not looking to do distributed computing within R at this point. What I'm after, though, is not really addressed by any of them. I want a user to be able to start an interactive R session on a compute node that the system determines (dynamically) to be most available at the time. That's what `beorun' does, but I couldn't get it to run R interactively.
Cheers, Andy > From: elijah wright > > look into the following knot of CRAN packages: > > SNOW > Rmpi > Rpvm > rlecuyer > rsprng > SNOW-FT > RScaLAPACK > > et cetera. > > these provide some pretty interesting bits - like a suite of > parallelized > apply() functions. > > > --elijah > > > > Has anyone tried running R on a Beowulf-type cluster? I > can get R to run in > > batch (using R CMD BATCH) on a cluster, but am wondering if > it is possible > > to get an interactive R session on a compute node. Right > now, if I run: > > > > beorun --nolocal R > > > > I just get the R start-up message and back to the shell > prompt. If I try > > > > bpsh 0 R > > > > I can get R started (but the R prompt does not appear) and > do computations, > > but no access to an x11() device. I'd very much appreciate > any pointer. > > > > Best, > > Andy > > > > Andy Liaw, PhD > > Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 > > Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 > > andy_liaw <at> merck.com 732-594-0820 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
