[R] Parallel processes

Mike Lawrence Mike.Lawrence at DAL.CA
Tue May 22 22:12:40 CEST 2007


You can find a decent tutorial on using RMPI here:
http://ace.acadiau.ca/math/ACMMaC/Rmpi/index.html

On 22-May-07, at 3:46 PM, Kuhn, Max wrote:

> Erin,
>
> There is a "snow" package (note the case) and also a few others.
>
> Rlsf, is specific to grids/clusters that use the LSF queue system.
>
> More generally, the nws package is more sophisticated and should  
> work on
> most systems. Also, there is Rmpi (which I haven't used).
>
> Max
>
>
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of hodgess
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:01 PM
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> Subject: [R] Parallel processes
>
>
>     Dear R People:
>
>  I was wondering if there were any packages for parallel  
> programming in
> R.
>
>  According to the R-help, at one time there was a package called SNOW.
> It doesn't seem
>  to exist anymore.
>
>  Any help would be much appreciated!
>
>  Sincerely,
>  Erin Hodgess
>  mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu
>
>
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