[Rd] Distributed computing

[gte810u at mail.gatech.edu]

> does anyone know if there exists an effort to bring some kind of 
> distributed computing to R? The most simple functionality I'm after is 
> to be able to explicitly perform a task on a computing server. Sorry if 
> this is a non-informed newbie question...

As an alternate to the PVM/MPI interfaces mentioned by other people, I am
working on a (very soon to be released) project for using the ScaLAPACK library
[1] through a simple R interface.  If the tasks that you want run an a computing
server are simple (LAPACK) functions (solve, svd, etc) and not whole R scripts,
then this be useful.


David Bauer

[1] http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/