Found the issue
 
1) I need to have the latest version of bigmemory (>4.0)
2) The line
 
mpi.remote.exec(the.data.copy<-attach.big.matrix(the.data.desc),ret = F)
 
should be
 
mpi.bcast.cmd(the.data.copy<-attach.big.matrix(the.data.desc))
 
 
 

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