[Swift-devel] SwiftR user-ready?

[Tim Armstrong]

P.S. I also pushed out a new release, the new URL is:

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~tga/swiftR/Swift_0.1.4.tar.gz

- Tim



On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Tim Armstrong <tim.g.armstrong at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:
>>
>>> Sarah, it does work
>>>
>>
>> do you have the correct pointer for the tarball?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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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