[Rd] Distributed computing

[Anders Sjögren]

Sorry for posing the question to the wrong list. Apart from the public 
replies I also got tips on the packages snow and rmpi 
(http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/).

Thanks for the pieces of advice.

-> Anders

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On Mar 22, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Tony Plate wrote:

>  The R-help list is probably better for this sort of question.  In any 
> case, the R newsletter is a great source of accumulated (& distilled!) 
> wisdom, and the following might be relevant.
>
>
>
> @Article{Rnews:Li+Rossini:2001,
>   author       = {Michael Na Li and
> A.J. Rossini},
>   title        =
> {{RPVM}: Cluster Statistical Computing in {R}},
>   journal      = {R News},
>  
> year         =
> 2001,
>   volume       = 1,
>   number       = 3,
>   pages        =
> {4--7},
>   month        =
> {September},
>  
> url         
> =
> {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/}
> }
>
> @Article{Rnews:Yu:2002,
>   author       = {Hao Yu},
>   title        =
> {Rmpi: Parallel Statistical Computing in R},
>   journal      = {R News},
>  
> year         =
> 2002,
>   volume       = 2,
>   number       = 2,
>   pages        =
> {10--14},
>   month        =
> {June},
>  
> url         
> =
> {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/}
> }
>
>
> @Article{Rnews:Carson+Murison+Mason:2003,
>   author       = {Brett Carson and
> Robert Murison and Ian A. Mason},
>   title        =
> {Computational Gains Using {RPVM} on a Beowulf Cluster},
>   journal      = {R News},
>  
> year         =
> 2003,
>   volume       = 3,
>   number       = 1,
>   pages        =
> {21--26},
>   month        =
> {June},
>  
> url         
> =
> {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/}
> }
>
>
>
> hope this helps,
>
>  Tony Plate
>
>
>  At Monday 02:21 AM 3/22/2004, Anders Sjögren wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>  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...
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Anders Sjögren
>
>  PhD Student
>  Dept. of Mathematical Statistics
>  Chalmers University of Technology
>  Gothenburg, Sweden
>
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