Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-21 Thread Luke Tierney
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Jay Emerson wrote: Giuseppe, I've been able to use NetWorkSpaces on all platforms, and have used snow under Linux. It's possible to use snow under windows, but you'll need to build the binary yourself I think. As an aside, I think this makes it impossible to write a CRAN-

Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-17 Thread giuseppe1 . milicia
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Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Horner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/16/2008 08:52 AM: Guys, I'm running R on both Windows & Linux. I'm looking at a number of packages for parallel execution. It seems that the most used packages are "snow" and "Rmpi". snow seems more user friendly, but it doesn't run on windows. I see from searching

Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-17 Thread Jay Emerson
Giuseppe, I've been able to use NetWorkSpaces on all platforms, and have used snow under Linux. It's possible to use snow under windows, but you'll need to build the binary yourself I think. As an aside, I think this makes it impossible to write a CRAN-friendly package that Requires: or Suggests

Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-16 Thread giuseppe1 . milicia
Markus, That's interesting. I'm using snow_0.3-0 that's the version on CRAN. I see that on the maintainer's website newer versions are available... I just tried snow_0.3-3 and as you said it actually works fine! Thanks a lot for the help, that's exactly what I was looking for! // Giuseppe

Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-16 Thread Markus Schmidberger
Hello, we are using Rmpi and snow on windows. It is working very well. We are using Windows Server 2003 and *MPICH2. I probably will manage to have some tests with the new snow (*snow_0.3-3)* version this week. Best Markus Martin Morgan schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guys, I'm r

Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-16 Thread Martin Morgan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Guys, > > I'm running R on both Windows & Linux. I'm looking at a number of packages > for parallel execution. It seems that the most used packages are "snow" and > "Rmpi". > > snow seems more user friendly, but it doesn't run on windows. I see from > searching the mail

[Rd] Snow or alternative MPI packages on Windows

2008-07-16 Thread giuseppe1 . milicia
Guys, I'm running R on both Windows & Linux. I'm looking at a number of packages for parallel execution. It seems that the most used packages are "snow" and "Rmpi". snow seems more user friendly, but it doesn't run on windows. I see from searching the mailing list that I'm not the first one to t