[Swift-devel] Next steps on SwiftR - re Fwd: [Swift-user] Do you have any resource for learning about SwiftR?

[Michael Wilde]

David, can you schedule some time to meet with Tim, learn and try SwiftR, and work to publicize it on the Swift web?

Tim, do you think its ready to submit to CRAN? Does it meet the CRAN install criteria wrt building all included packages from source? (Ie, Swift?)

How should we handle the docs issue? I think we need to consolidate docs from the at least 3 sources I know about and get them into both the R help and echo them into an asciidoc page on the Swift web? (SwiftR R help; Tim's page; SWFT pages(2); also, do we still have docs on it on the OpenMx wiki?  Last I looked the Swift help page there now refers back to SWFT pages).

Lastly, what do we need to do for additional SwiftR site support?
- config and test on beagle
- integrate with more swift configs
- test and support for TG/XSEDE and OSG

Thanks,

- Mike


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Michael Wilde" <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
To: "Lorenzo Pesce" <lpesce at uchicago.edu>
Cc: "Tim Armstrong" <tga at uchicago.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:22:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Swift-user] Do you have any resource for learning about SwiftR?

Lorenzo,

The SwiftR documentation is currently at:

  http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/SwiftR

which also provides a quick start guide at:

  http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/SwiftRQuickstart

Further examples and some performance measurements are at:

  http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~tga/swiftR/

And more examples are available with ?SwiftR help once you load the package:
> source("http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~tga/swiftR/getSwift.R")

I just built an R-2.13.1 release on Beagle with plain gcc, which I think *should* be runnable in parallel on worker nodes. (Not yet tested though).  This R should be capable of running SwiftR.  Im hoping that Tim cam verify this soon. We'll likely need an additional SwiftR server name and config for Beagle and other Cray systems.

We'll try to consolidate the SwiftR documentation in a user guide on the Swift in the future. Tim, can you do a quick check of the documentation to make sure its still correct and that it points to the latest SwiftR package?

Thanks,

- Mike


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lorenzo Pesce" <lpesce at uchicago.edu>
> To: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:22:51 AM
> Subject: [Swift-user] Do you have any resource for learning about SwiftR?
> Hi -
> 
> I want to run relatively small sized simulations (say at most 50 cores
> or so, probably mostly one or two) but many many times over. The
> simulations will be coded in R.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Lorenzo
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-- 
Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory

-- 
Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory