Problems Installing Rmpi
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 18:45 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 12 May 2009 at 13:44, Rick B. wrote: | Is there some 64-bit Linux that I can install so that Rmpi will install | and run out of the box? All I need is the ability to run R and Rmpi. Debian. Ubuntu. Part of the reason I continue to maintain R, Rmpi (r-cran-rmpi in Debian) and a few dozen other things in Debian is precisely so that they work out of the box for me. I also co-maintained Open MPI in Debian for a while for the same reason. And I use all of these on Ubuntu amd64 machines at work. There I sometimes build local versions of the Open MPI and Rmpi packages just because I want to try newer releases. With that caveat, I think Open MPI should also just work on Ubuntu 8.10 and the just released 9.04. (And R I just take from the CRAN repos and Vincent and Michael have rebuilds of my packages out within a day or two.) I would stay away from LAM as it is end-of-lived and the LAM team itself recommends going to Open MPI. I have never used MPICH2 -- partly because that version is not in Debian. If you can find a spare machine (or an instance of vmare or virtualbox somewhere) I can recommend the server-flavour install of Ubuntu too. Pretty light and a quick install. Hope this helps, Dirk
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 on an HP 2133 mini notebook. So I would consider using Ubuntu for openmpi, R, and Rmpi - assuming 9.04 will install on a RAID system. I did try to compile lam from source but when configuring for shared libs, I get a warning that the compiler (g++) does not support the bool data type. So I'm stumped at the moment. So I have more incentive to use Ubuntu. Rick B.