[R-sig-hpc] snow: makeMPIcluster hanging

[Florian Umlauf (CRIE)]

Hi @all,

I have some trouble while using mpi.spawn.Rslaves from the snow package. 
I have successfully installed mpich2 and its working fine with the Rmpi 
package:

 >   library(Rmpi)
 >      mpi.spawn.Rslaves()
         4 slaves are spawned successfully. 0 failed.
master (rank 0, comm 1) of size 5 is running on: nb-wimiforn2
slave1 (rank 1, comm 1) of size 5 is running on: nb-wimiforn2
slave2 (rank 2, comm 1) of size 5 is running on: nb-wimiforn2
slave3 (rank 3, comm 1) of size 5 is running on: nb-wimiforn2
slave4 (rank 4, comm 1) of size 5 is running on: nb-wimiforn2

 >      mpi.remote.exec(rnorm(10))
              X1         X2          X3         X4
1  -0.826003439  1.1755321 -1.12667720 -0.7356504
2  -0.446206608 -1.0365283  0.23759725 -0.5533241
3  -0.675614170 -2.8628252  0.61035157 -0.5376180
4   1.471801215 -1.2432659 -0.09245669 -0.4177295
5   0.511399298  0.1925932 -0.21761067  0.8573787
6   0.499592894 -0.1596297  0.04846257 -0.2703588
7  -2.202159413  0.9161975 -1.39892893  0.3161000
8  -0.880671433 -0.0576492  0.84399188  0.4670704
9  -0.466700498 -0.2201990 -1.49148264  0.7604177
10  0.007915527  0.3047164 -0.54815462  0.4506002

 >      mpi.close.Rslaves()

[1] 1

But every time I run the makeMPIcluster procedure from the snow-package 
on just one single machine it hangs up (right at the moment when 
mpi.comm.spawn is loaded). I tried the code from the makeMPIcluster 
procedure step by step. R freezes at this very moment and one cpu takes 
100%. When I tried the same for mpi.spawn.Rslaves from Rmpi package 
mpi.comm.spawn works fine. I tried to switching of the firewall, I tried 
to run R in admin-mode and I give accessrights to everyone for my 
R-Folder. Snow and Rmpi are both installed in the same directory. I also 
looked for the parameters:

Mpitask : "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/Rscript.exe"
Args:  c("\"C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/snow/RMPInode.R\"", 
"SNOWLIB=C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library", "OUT=/dev/null")
Count: 2
Intercomm: 2

 > version      _
platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32
arch           x86_64
os             mingw32
system         x86_64, mingw32
status
major          3
minor          0.1
year           2013
month          05
day            16
svn rev        62743
language       R
version.string R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
nickname       Good Sport

Do you have any suggestions what’s going wrong or what to do?

Thanks a lot everyone

Best Florian

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Florian Umlauf
Volkswirt, M.Sc.
Universität Bremen
Centre for Regional and Innovation Economics
Wilhelm-Herbst-Str. 12
28359 Bremen

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