[Bioc-devel] BiocParallel on Windows Never Ends

[Martin Morgan]

yes it would be useful to post this to R-devel as a 'using 
parallel::makeCluster() question, removing BiocParallel from the 
equation, where some general insight might be had...

Martin

On 06/13/2018 05:00 PM, Dario Strbenac wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> I couldn't get a working param object. It never completes the command
> 
> param = bpstart(SnowParam(2, manager.hostname = "144.130.152.1", manager.port = 2559))
> 
> I obtained the IP address by typing "My IP address" into Google and it gave me the address shown. I used netstat -an and
> 
>    Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
>    TCP    127.0.0.1:2559         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
> 
> was one of the results displayed. I have reproduced this problem on another computer with Windows 10. I also tried
> 
> param = bpstart(SnowParam(2, manager.hostname = "127.0.0.1", manager.port = 2559)) but it doesn't complete.
> 
> I was able to identify the problem is with the line
> 
> bpbackend(x) <- do.call(parallel::makeCluster, cargs)
> 
> So, to summarise,
> 
>> cargs
> $`spec`
> [1] 2
> 
> $type
> [1] "SOCK"
> 
> $snowlib
> [1] "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.5.0/library/BiocParallel"
> 
> $master
> [1] "127.0.0.1"
> 
> $port
> [1] 2559
> 
>> do.call(parallel::makeCluster, cargs) # Freezes.
> 
> Should I ask the question on R-devel because it doesn't appear to be specific to Bioconductor ?
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Dario Strbenac
> University of Sydney
> Camperdown NSW 2050
> Australia
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