[R-sig-hpc] increasing max number of socket connections

[Brian G. Peterson]

On 03/29/2010 09:37 AM, Daniel Elliott wrote:
> We compile our own R binary from source.  Would the group be so kind
> as to give me an idea of how difficult it would be to increase the max
> number of socket connections R can make.  I was told this could be
> done by recompiling the source.  Also, if you all feel that this is
> not too painful, I would appreciate some guidance on where to start
> looking in the source.
>
> We are running R on 64-bit Fedora Linux.
>
> I need this so I can use SNOW to spawn a very large number of
> processes on our network.
>    

Wouldn't using an external system such as pvm, MPI, or NetworkSpaces 
make more sence than socket clusters using SNOW?  My experience is that 
SNOW socket clusters are quite useful on a small scale, and quite 
fragile on a large scale...

Regards,

     - Brian

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