[R] snow's makeCluster hanging (using Rmpi)

[Luke Tierney]

The most likely culprit is firewall settings. Something like tcpdump
may help to confirm that.  Working with a stand-alone example from
Rmpi may also help.

Best,

luke

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Randall C Johnson [Contr.] wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I've been fiddling around with the snow and Rmpi packages on my new Intel
> Mac, and have run into a few problems. When I make a cluster on my machine,
> both slaves start up just fine, and everything works as expected. When I try
> to make a cluster including another networked machine it hangs. I've
> followed the suggestions at
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/83086.html and
> http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html but to no avail.
> Everything seems to start up fine using lamboot, but then hangs when making
> the cluster in R. Making a cluster with 2 slaves seems to work fine, but if
> I increase the number (to use the networked machines) it hangs again.
>
> I've tried networking to another Mac, and also to a machine running Red Hat
> Linux. Both machines can set up their own local clusters. Does anyone have
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576)
> i386-apple-darwin8.8.2
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> [7] "base"
>
> other attached packages:
>   Rmpi    snow
> "0.5-3" "0.2-2"
>
>
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