Does anyone have the reference for the aforementioned paper, please?
thanks,
Erin
Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: r-sig-hpc-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sent: Tue 4/21/2009 10:25 AM
To: Richard Yanicky
Cc: r-sig-hpc at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-hpc] How to install R on a linux cluster.
On 21 April 2009 at 10:38, Richard Yanicky wrote:
| This might be common knowledge. I am looking to have a system admin install
| R on our linux cluster is there general documentation or a documentation
| resource that would help me direct him on how to do this? If additional
| information is needed please let me know.
On Debian / Ubunti all you need to get going is
$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-cran-mpi r-cran-snow
and you have R with MPI and the snow wrapper package. Not a bad place to
start as per the Schmidberger er al paper surveying parallel computing with
Linux.
There is no magic bullet -- Linux elements in a cluster are still 'just'
Linux machines. So use the tools of the distro you (or your sysadmin) are
familiar with. I like Debian/Ubuntu; you may want to look at Scientific
Linux which is Fedora-based but I am not sure how much R content you find
there.
Dirk