[R] package parallel help

2014-02-06 Thread Jeffrey Flint
I am looking for ways to reduce my process size for calls to mclapply. I have determined that the size of my process is creating too much overhead for the forking to be faster than a serial run.I am looking for some techniques to experiment with. I have been getting huge efficiency gains

Re: [R] project parallel help

2013-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Flint
. Jeffrey Flint jeffrey.fl...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff: Thank you for your response. Please let me know how I can unhandicap my question. I tried my best to be concise. Maybe this will help: version _ platform i386-w64-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system

[R] project parallel help

2013-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Flint
I'm running package parallel in R-3.0.2. Below are the execution times using system.time for when executing serially versus in parallel (with 2 cores) using parRapply. Serially: user system elapsed 4.670.034.71 Using package parallel: user system elapsed 3.820.12

Re: [R] project parallel help

2013-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Flint
#. rocks...1k --- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Jeffrey Flint jeffrey.fl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running package parallel in R-3.0.2. Below are the execution times using system.time for when executing serially

Re: [R] makeCluster help needed

2013-10-09 Thread Jeffrey Flint
want to start the workers manually? I'd be happy to look into the details if you can reproduce the problem with a recent version of R and the parallel package. Best, Uwe Ligges On 28.09.2013 03:20, Jeffrey Flint wrote: This is in regards to the SNOW library. I'm using Windows

Re: [R] snow::makeCluster on Windows hangs

2013-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Flint
, Jeffrey Flint wrote: The command which hangs: I'm hoping there is a simple explanation, but I searched on-line and nothing jumped out. cl - makeCluster(type=SOCK,c(**localhost),manual=TRUE) Manually start worker on localhost with C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.2/bin/**Rscript.exe C:/Program

[R] makeCluster help needed

2013-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Flint
This is in regards to the SNOW library. I'm using Windows. The problem is that makeSOCKcluster hangs in R as well as the DOS command line. Below I've shown that it completes the Rscript until it reaches the line slaveLoop(master) , at which point it hangs. = In R:

[R] snow::makeCluster on Windows hangs

2013-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Flint
The command which hangs: I'm hoping there is a simple explanation, but I searched on-line and nothing jumped out. cl - makeCluster(type=SOCK,c(localhost),manual=TRUE) Manually start worker on localhost with C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.2/bin/Rscript.exe C:/Program