[R] RE: R performance questions

[A.J. Rossini]

"Michael Benjamin" <msb1129 at bellsouth.net> writes:

> I was just looking ahead two or three years--where is all this genomic
> array research headed?  I guess I'm concerned about scalability.  

Me too -- but at least in the near future, data will be growing more
than the capacity to process it.

> Is anyone really working on implementing affy on a cluster/Beowulf?
> That sounds like a real challenge.

Yes and no.  Depends on which components you want to deal with, and
how you want to work with the data.   

Everything (with respect to speed/capacity/etc) is especially
contextual -- applications and approximations will be quite
important. 

best,
-tony

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