Re: [R] cluster-lite

2009-09-16 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
The R.batch package does most of this. It's been several years, but I used it run batch jobs on multiple (30-40) machines with different OS:es but sharing the same file system. No communication needed between hosts. It worked like a charm and I could process 3-4 CPU years in a few weeks for

[R] cluster-lite

2009-09-15 Thread ivo welch
I am about to write a cluster-lite R solution for myself. I wanted to know whether it already exists. If not, I will probably write up how I do this, and I will make the code available. Background: we have various linux and OSX systems, which are networked, but not set up as a cluster. I have

Re: [R] cluster-lite

2009-09-15 Thread Cedrick Johnson
perhaps a long shot but maybe the package 'nws' could handle some of it. I've recently begun looking into something similar lately as well. -c ivo welch wrote: I am about to write a cluster-lite R solution for myself. I wanted to know whether it already exists. If not, I will probably write