[R] parallel computing

[Martin Morgan]

Hi Moreno --

snow provides an easy interface to simple parallel types of
calculations (e.g., lapply in parallel). I quickly wanted to have more
direct control over how parallel computations were calculated, and
have been using Rmpi. Though in principle snow and Rmpi are 'easy' to
use, I found that they actually require a certain amount of
understanding about R objects and evaluation, and the underlying
communication library (MPI, or PVM).

Hope that helps,

Martin

"mb7312 at libero.it" <mb7312 at libero.it> writes:

> Dear R users,
>
> I have access to a Sun cluster with multiple processors , a lot of
> RAM and with RedHat installed.  I want to take advantage of its
> power for a R routine very time consuming.
>
> Whick package do I have to use? I know there are snow,snowFT and
> others package.Which is the best for my purpose?  Do someone have
> experiences with this?
>
> Thanck in advance.
>
> Moreno
>
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