[R] newbie question on snow/Rmpi

[Whit Armstrong]

Thanks, Dirk.

I had read your very long conversation on the openMPI list but wasn't
sure if there was a resolution.

I had overlooked the fact that there is an hpc list, will post there
from now on.

Cheers,
Whit


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Whit,
>
> On 19 December 2008 at 10:17, Whit Armstrong wrote:
> | Does anyone know if these errors can be safely ignored?
> |
> | [linuxsvr.kls.corp:16242] mca: base: component_find: unable to open
> | osc pt2pt: file not found (ignored)
> |
> | this is on RHEL5 w/ openMPI 1.2.7
>
> Yes. Hao (of Rmpi fame) and I also see it on 64-bit Debian and Ubuntu, but
> not on the 32-bit variants. AFAIK it has something to do with how OMPI uses dlopen
> and which symbols get across to different library.
>
> You can suppress it via
>
> $ tail -4 /etc/openmpi/openmpi-mca-params.conf
>
> # edd 18 Dec 2008
> mca_component_show_load_errors = 0
>
> or using the equivalent switches on the command-line or via an env. var --
> see the OMPI docs.
>
> You may want to subscribe to r-sig-hpc to ask these types of questions there.
>
> Dirk
>
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