[Swift-devel] SwiftR user-ready?

[Tim Armstrong]

Hi Sarah,

Sorry about the dead link, that was my mistake - it should work now.

It does indeed work.  It's still very much in development, but the current
version is quite dependable running on a single multi-core machine.

I haven't tested on a Mac yet, but it should work provided there is a Java
1.6+ VM and R 2.11+.  It would be good to get confirmation that there aren't
any funny mac-specific issues.

For your user it should be as simple as
> swiftInit(cores=8)
to start up swift on 8 cores, then to apply a functino to a list of
arguments
> arglists = list(  1, 2, 3, 4, 5)  # arguments for invocations of bootstrap
> results <- swiftapply(bootstrap, arglists)

If they have a dataset used by all instances of bootstrap, the following can
work:
>swiftExport(hugeDataSet)
>swiftapply(bootstrap, arglists)

If they need to use a library:

> swiftLibrary(MyLibrary)

- Tim


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Sarah Kenny <skenny at uchicago.edu> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>> Sarah, it does work
>>
>
> do you have the correct pointer for the tarball?
>
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>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> does this work? http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/wiki/bin/view/SWFT/SwiftR
>>
>> if so i have someone who might be interested in using it, he's just trying
>> to run bootstrapping on an 8-core mac and getting frustrated with
>> snowfall...i'd seen svn activity on this so thought i'd see if it was in a
>> state where you might want someone to play around with it :) however, the
>> download failed for me:
>>
>> [skenny at cosmo builds]$ wget
>> http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~tga/Swift_0.1.3.tar.gz
>> --2011-02-24 11:21:45--
>> http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~tga/Swift_0.1.3.tar.gz
>> Resolving people.cs.uchicago.edu... 128.135.164.139
>> Connecting to people.cs.uchicago.edu|128.135.164.139|:80... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>> 2011-02-24 11:21:45 ERROR 404: Not Found
>>
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>> --
>> Michael Wilde
>> Computation Institute, University of Chicago
>> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
>> Argonne National Laboratory
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