[R] rmpi/snow/sge/openmpi help

[Markus Schmidberger]

Hi,

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Did you tried to run openmpi and R without SGE?
Like this: "orterun -n 1 R --no-save"

I think openmpi / orterun do not get the correct hostfile. Therefore it
starts with a default hostfile and this is only for the local machine!
So all nodes are at the same machine.
It normally works like this that SGE creates a hostfile and puts the
path of the hostfile to a special (environment) variable. Now you have
to  make sure that the correct hostfile will be used. So SGE should call
something like this:
"ortrun -n 1 --hostfile $PATH_TO_HOSTFILE R --so-save"

Best
Markus




jk jk wrote:
> Forgive the spam.  Let me try that e-mail again.
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get snow working with openmpi and sge.  Everything
> appears to work, except the program only runs on 1 node.  If i tell
> snow to run on 5 nodes, it spawns 5 processes on a single node, 6
> nodes = 6 procs on 1 node and so on.  I'm at a loss for ideas.  Any
> help would be appreciated.
> 
> Setup:  Rocks Cluster, OpenMPI, R 2.8.0, Snow, Rmpi.
> 
> 
> Please ask for specifics.  Thanks in advance.
> 
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