[R-SIG-Finance] parallel processing

Gambulator Gambulator gambulator at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 15:28:57 CET 2015


thanks. I was trying this last night and I think R just released 3.2.2 and
nothing seems to be compatible with it... I gave up last night.... but now
that you showed me this post, I am going to try it again.

thanks

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Erol Biceroglu <
erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> FYI, this gentleman has setup R studio AWS images for everyone to use.  So
> there's no "pain" to set it up:
>
> http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/
>
>
>
> On Monday, October 26, 2015, Gambulator Gambulator <gambulator at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I tried to use the parallel core again and I get this error message. Note
>> that the non-parallel version works fine for me and I am using the
>> optimization feature.
>>
>>
>> This is how I call the parallel version:
>>
>> if( Sys.info()['sysname'] == "Windows" )
>> {
>>   library(doParallel)
>>   cl=makeCluster(detectCores())
>>   registerDoParallel(cl)
>>   #registerDoSEQ()
>> } else {
>>   library(doMC)
>>
>>   registerDoMC(cores=detectCores())
>> }
>>
>> This is how I call the serial version:
>>
>> if( Sys.info()['sysname'] == "Windows" )
>> {
>>   library(doParallel)
>>
>>   registerDoSEQ()
>> } else {
>>   library(doMC)
>>
>>   registerDoMC(cores=detectCores())
>> }
>>
>> ****************************error message for parallel below:
>>
>> error calling combine function:
>> <simpleError in fun(result.1, result.2, result.3, result.4, result.5,
>> result.6,     result.7, result.8, result.9, result.10, result.11,
>> result.12,     result.13, result.14, result.15, result.16, result.17,
>> result.18,     result.19, result.20, result.21, result.22, result.23,
>> result.24,     result.25, result.26, result.27, result.28, result.29,
>> result.30,     result.31, result.32, result.33, result.34, result.35,
>> result.36,     result.37, result.38, result.39, result.40, result.41,
>> result.42,     result.43, result.44, result.45, result.46, result.47,
>> result.48,     result.49, result.50, result.51, result.52, result.53,
>> result.54,     result.55, result.56, result.57, result.58, result.59,
>> result.60,     result.61, result.62, result.63, result.64, result.65,
>> result.66,     result.67, result.68, result.69, result.70, result.71,
>> result.72,     result.73, result.74, result.75, result.76, result.77,
>> result.78,     result.79, result.80, result.81, result.82, result.83,
>> result.84,     result.85, result.86, result.87, result.88, result.89,
>> result.90,     result.91, result.92, result.93, result.94, result.95,
>> result.96,     result.97, result.98, result.99, result.100, result.101,
>> result.102, result.103, result.104, result.105, result.106,
>>  result.107,
>> result.108, result.109, result.110, result.111,     result.112,
>> result.113,
>> result.114, result.115, result.116,     result.117, result.118,
>> result.119,
>> result.120, result.121,     result.122, result.123, result.124,
>> result.125,
>> result.126,     result.127, result.128, result.129, result.130,
>> result.131,
>>     result.132, result.133, result.134, result.135, result.136,
>> result.137, result.138, result.139, result.140, result.141,
>>  result.142,
>> result.143, result.144, result.145, result.146,     result.147,
>> result.148,
>> result.149, result.150, result.151,     result.152, result.153,
>> result.154,
>> result.155, result.156,     result.157, result.158, result.159,
>> result.160,
>> result.161,     result.162, result.163, result.164, result.165,
>> result.166,
>>     result.167, result.168, result.169, result.170, result.171,
>> result.172, result.173, result.174, result.175, result.176,
>>  result.177,
>> result.178, result.179, result.180, result.181,     result.182,
>> result.183,
>> result.184, result.185, result.186,     result.187, result.188,
>> result.189,
>> result.190, result.191,     result.192, result.193, result.194,
>> result.195,
>> result.196,     result.197, result.198, result.199, result.200,
>> result.201,
>>     result.202, result.203, result.204, result.205, result.206,
>> result.207, result.208, result.209, result.210, result.211,
>>  result.212,
>> result.213, result.214, result.215, result.216,     result.217,
>> result.218,
>> result.219, result.220, result.221,     result.222, result.223,
>> result.224,
>> result.225, result.226,     result.227, result.228, result.229,
>> result.230,
>> result.231,     result.232, result.233, result.234, result.235,
>> result.236,
>>     result.237, result.238, result.239, result.240, result.241,
>> result.242, result.243, result.244, result.245, result.246,
>>  result.247,
>> result.248, result.249, result.250, result.251,     result.252,
>> result.253,
>> result.254, result.255, result.256,     result.257, result.258,
>> result.259,
>> result.260, result.261,     result.262, result.263, result.264,
>> result.265,
>> result.266,     result.267, result.268, result.269, result.270,
>> result.271,
>>     result.272, result.273, result.274, result.275, result.276,
>> result.277, result.278, result.279, result.280, result.281,
>>  result.282,
>> result.283, result.284, result.285, result.286,     result.287,
>> result.288): attempt to select less than one element>
>> >
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Gambulator Gambulator <
>> gambulator at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > thanks. I am running the optimization and yeah it is pretty slow so I
>> > figure that I should put it on more cores. It seems/sounds like it 'd
>> work
>> > fine on Linux but now that you mention Windows, may be I will give it a
>> > shot before firing up AWS and go through the pain to make an image and
>> all
>> > that.
>> >
>> > thx
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Bos, Roger <roger.bos at rothschild.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Not all of the parallel packages with in Windows, but doParallel is one
>> >> that does.  Here is how to start it with 3 cores:
>> >>
>> >> library(doParallel)
>> >> cl <- makeCluster(3)
>> >> registerDoParallel(cl)
>> >>
>> >> It will automatically load the foreach package provided you have it
>> >> installed.  Please see the documentation for foreach for examples.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Roger
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: R-SIG-Finance [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at r-project.org] On
>> >> Behalf Of Gambulator Gambulator
>> >> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 2:21 PM
>> >> To: r-sig-finance at r-project.org
>> >> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] parallel processing
>> >>
>> >> I did quite a bit of googling. it is not clear to me if it works now on
>> >> Windows or not. it is pretty slow even if I have turned off my
>> >> debug,verbose or print. any idea?
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