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== Usage of R adn MPI ==
== Usage of R adn MPI ==


For parallel scripts the R contains the package Rmpi. To launch an parallel R script inside an [[SGE Job Management (Queueing) System| SGE]] script please use command line
For parallel scripts the R installation contains the package Rmpi. To launch an parallel R script inside an [[SGE Job Management (Queueing) System| SGE]] script please use command line


   mpirun -bootstrap sge -np $NSLOTS -env I_MPI_FABRICS shm:ofa R ''SCRIPTNAME'' ''SCRIPT_CMDLINE_OPTIONS''
   mpirun -bootstrap sge -np $NSLOTS -env I_MPI_FABRICS shm:ofa R --slave ''SCRIPTNAME'' ''SCRIPT_CMDLINE_OPTIONS''


to enable SGE to control all processes of your script.
to enable SGE to control all processes of your script.

Revision as of 10:04, 11 June 2013

There are two R releases available on FLOW and HERO. The actual relase is available by

 module load r/3.0.1

With this command the corresponding Intel compilers and Intel MPI will be automatically loaded.

Note: The release 2.15.2 is deprecated and only for legacy on the system.


Additional installed packages

The actual release contains a lot of additional R packages, for example

  chron, abind, ade4, akima, bitops, caTools, circular, doMC, doMPI, ensembleBMA, foreach, gdata, geosphere,
  gplots, gtools, hht, iterators, lattice, latticeExtra, ncdf, raster, RColorBrewer, RCurl, signal, solaR,
  stringr, timeDate, truncnorm, VGAM, zoo

and many more...

Usage of R adn MPI

For parallel scripts the R installation contains the package Rmpi. To launch an parallel R script inside an SGE script please use command line

  mpirun -bootstrap sge -np $NSLOTS -env I_MPI_FABRICS shm:ofa R --slave SCRIPTNAME SCRIPT_CMDLINE_OPTIONS

to enable SGE to control all processes of your script.

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