Markus, That's interesting. I'm using snow_0.3-0 that's the version on CRAN. I see that on the maintainer's website newer versions are available...
I just tried snow_0.3-3 and as you said it actually works fine! Thanks a lot for the help, that's exactly what I was looking for! // Giuseppe Markus Schmidberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To uni-muenchen.de> Martin Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Giuseppe1 MILICIA/IBEU/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/07/2008 15:44 cc Mail Size: 7121 r-devel@r-project.org Subject Please respond to Re: [Rd] Snow or alternative MPI [EMAIL PROTECTED] packages on Windows ni-muenchen.de Entity Investment Banking Europe - IBEU Hello, we are using Rmpi and snow on windows. It is working very well. We are using Windows Server 2003 and *MPICH2. I probably will manage to have some tests with the new snow (*snow_0.3-3)* version this week. Best Markus Martin Morgan schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> Guys, >> >> I'm running R on both Windows & Linux. I'm looking at a number of packages >> for parallel execution. It seems that the most used packages are "snow" and >> "Rmpi". >> >> snow seems more user friendly, but it doesn't run on windows. I see from >> searching the mailing list that I'm not the first one to try it on Windows. >> There was a message that kind of shed some hope on the subject, but nothing >> else. >> >> Rmpi works well on windows (with DeinoMPI) but it's kind of low level, so >> before I embark in writing code similar to snow to have some high level >> constructs I though I'd ask here about other peoples experiences... >> > > Rmpi has low-level facilities, but things like mpi.spawn.Rslaves, > mpi.parLapply and mpi.bcast.cmd are high-level in the same way that > snow is. > > Hopefully others will comment with windows-specific input. > > Martin > > >> Is anyone around here doing parallel R on Windows? 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