[R] rpvm/snow packages on a cluster with dual-processor machines
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
rdiaz at cnio.es
Fri Aug 11 18:54:04 CEST 2006
Dear Paul,
I have no direct experience with rpvm, but doing it with rmpi is a piece of
cake. I could provide you with some hints if you want. (I am tempted to ask
why you are using PVM instead of MPI, but this might be the wrong question).
Best,
R.
On Friday 11 August 2006 18:12, Paul Y. Peng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know how to use the dual processors in the machines of a
> cluster? I am using R with rpvm and snow packages. I usually start pvm
> daemon and add host machines first, and then run R to start my computing
> work. But I find that only one processor in each machine is used in this
> way and the other one always stays idle. Is there any simple way to tell
> pvm to use the two processors at the same time? In other words, I would
> like to see two copies of R running on each machine's two processors when
> using pvm. Any hints/help are greatly appreciated.
>
> Paul.
>
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