snow-startstop: Starting and Stopping SNOW Clusters
Description
Functions to start and stop a SNOW cluster and to set default cluster
options. Wrapper around original start-stop commands from SNOW to hide
the cluster object.
Usage
makeCluster( ...)
stopCluster(cl)
Arguments
...
cluster option specifications, for details see SNOW package.
cl
cluster object.
Details
makeCluster starts a cluster of the specified or default type
and returns NO reference to the cluster. The reference is stored in an internal
environment (.affyParaInternalEnv) and will be automatically used from the functions
in affyPara.
For further parameters and documentation see the SNOW package.
stopCluster should be called to properly shut down the cluster
before exiting R. If it is not called it may be necessary to use
external means to ensure that all slave processes are shut down.