[R-sig-hpc] Install Rmpi as a user of HPC

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Installing Rmpi is tricky. I don't know about RHEL/CentOS/Scientific
Linux, but I had to write a special script to get it to work on
openSUSE 12.1:

https://github.com/znmeb/Computational-Journalism-Server/tree/master/HighPerformanceComputing

Note in particular that I had to set up a configuration file for
OpenMPI as 'root' and I had to install Rmpi using "R CMD install"
after downloading the package from CRAN.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:23 AM, semra yalcin <semra.yalcin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with installation of Rmpi on my account at the hpc. I've
> tried to install Rmpi with different ways, but unfortunately I couldn't
> achieve it.
>
> OS of hpc is Scientific Linux v5.2 64 bit. Installed version of openMPI is
> 1.2.8. I have R 2.15.1 installed on my home folder. And I have no access to
> the root.
>
> When searching the web, I saw that before installing Rmpi, I should modify
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH  to include the path to the Open MPI libraries. I checked
> /usr/lib64 folder of the hpc. There is no folder called openmpi. So I think
> that there is no default link to OpenMPI libraries on the system.
>
> If admins run *Idconfig /usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/*, could I install Rmpi
> properly after indicating the path to openmpi lib?
>
>
> Moreover, there are many other users who are working on the system and
> using openmpi. Will this command run affect them?
>
>
> Also I have to say that almost everything (Linux, HPC, parallel R...) is
> new to me. I hope that my questions and thoughts aren't nonsense.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
>
>
> Semra
>
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