[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 usi

Re: [R] project parallel help

2013-10-15 Thread Jeffrey Flint
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Re: [R] project parallel help

2013-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Flint
edded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > ------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > Jeffrey Flint wrote: >>I'm running package parallel in R-3.0.2. >> >>Below are the execut

[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] makeCluster help needed

2013-10-09 Thread Jeffrey Flint
can you please explain why you 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

[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:

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

2013-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Flint
am not sure why you would want to do > that). > > > On 27/09/2013 02:26, 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(

[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 Files/R/R-2.14.2/library/sn