For a one-time run this is true, but if you find yourself doing this (or similar things) often, it can be a nuisance to break it up every time. The snow package is fairly painless to install and works great.
I found, however, that if you have things (eg R, LAM/MPI, ...) installed outside of the default Mac OS X path when connecting with ssh that they won't run unless you add (or uncomment?) “PermitUserEnvironment yes” to /private/etc/sshd_config in order to use the modified path (set in .bash_profile) on the other OS X machines. Perhaps there is a better way, but that is how I got it working. Although I think this is the default setting on Leopard (and would only be an issue for earlier versions). Best, Randy On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Rob Forsyth wrote: >> options here. I am working on an iMac G5 and could access (at home - >> i.e. not on a LAN) another G5 and a G4. I've come across the R/MPI >> package but would appreciate advice as to how easy this is to set up >> (would it actually be simpler to divide the job "manually"?). > > With only three computers it would be easiest to divide the job > manually. > > -thomas > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Randall C Johnson Bioinformatics Analyst SAIC-Frederick, Inc (Contractor) Laboratory of Genomic Diversity NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B Bldg 560, Rm 11-85 Frederick, MD 21702 Phone: (301) 846-1304 Fax: (301) 846-1686 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
