Hi,
I have few high-level questions about the Snow and Rmpi packages . I understand
that Snow uses Rmpi as one of possible transport layers, yet my questions about
user experience, not technical details:
1. Does Snow install and work well in Windows?
2. Interruptibility. I understand that currently it is impossible to interrupt
a running top-level command in Snow ( Ctl-c or the likes), the only way to kill
slave processes is to kill the master R process. Is this accurate? What about
Rmpi ? Is there any difference between Windows and Linux?
3. When the master process dies , is it guaranteed that the slaves will die
too? How reliable is this (I've seen some applications, not related to R, that
were flaky about killing slaves)
Thank you very much for your help,
Vadim
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