[R] R on Beowulf cluster?

[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
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