[R] Status of Rmpi--Good with tweaks

[A.J. Rossini]

Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> writes:

> By the way, I'm in the dark about (r)sprng.  From some of the snow docs,
> I thought that was really snow's business.  But your site notes that the
> Rmpi packages are withough SPRNG support.  And Tony Rossini's pages (I
> think) had a slightly cryptic remark that SPRNG under MPI was a bit
> dicey.

SPRNG doesn't need to be invoked via MPI, but can be configured to use
it as the invocation/transport layer. 

It shouldn't matter to SNOW in the least, or rpvm.  I think it
shouldn't matter to Rmpi, but we won't have a cluster to play with for
a month or so.

Luke -- I've seen the gentle hints.

best,
-tony

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