[R] R on Beowulf cluster?

[A.J. Rossini]

That's a shell/R script issue.  I've come across it before, but I've
no longer got access to any clusters of that form (yet :-).

Depending on the jobs, it's not clear to me that you want a truly
interactive process on a subnode, but the idea is the same as the
chicanery we used to have a remote R process.

best,
-tony



On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:59:33 -0500, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
> Dear R-help,
> 
> 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
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-- 
best,
-tony

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