[Rd] Distributed computing
A.J. Rossini
rossini at blindglobe.net
Tue Mar 23 20:32:51 CET 2004
gte810u at mail.gatech.edu writes:
>> 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.
A number of folks have commented on having this in progress (esp a
group at Vanderbilt). It's intriguing, but how did you plan on
replacing the standard system-level library calls? (or did you just
provide new interfaces at the user (R command) level?)
best,
-tony
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