Re: [Rd] problem with Rmpi 0.5-5 and openmpi

2008-04-12 Thread Peter Pearman
Luke, Brian, Thank you for your suggestions. Since we were using 0.5-5, the patch had already been incorporated. It turned out that we had a couple of problems. The weird one actually lay in the configuration of the cluster. While we believed the entire cluster had Myrinet, actually the ma

Re: [Rd] problem with Rmpi 0.5-5 and openmpi

2008-04-08 Thread Luke Tierney
You may want to be a little careful about using R and MPI with Myrinet. We tried to get that to work around 5 years ago and found it more trouble than it was worth (we ended up sending the Myrinet equipment back and getting gigabit ethernet instead). As I recall, the problem at the time was that t

Re: [Rd] problem with Rmpi 0.5-5 and openmpi

2008-04-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
See http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/10/4192.php Does the version of Rmpi you used have the suggested patch? On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Peter Pearman wrote: > Dear knowledgeable experts :-), > > I am trying to get openmpi, Rmpi and SNOW running on a Myrinet/GM > cluster. I'm not an

[Rd] problem with Rmpi 0.5-5 and openmpi

2008-04-07 Thread Peter Pearman
Dear knowledgeable experts :-), I am trying to get openmpi, Rmpi and SNOW running on a Myrinet/GM cluster. I'm not an IT expert, but I surely could use a working installation of Rmpi and SNOW. I try to load the Rmpi library and get the following: > library(Rmpi) [master:07230] mca: base: com