[R] Viable Approach to Parallel R?

[Gabor Csardi]

Similar experience, with snow & MPI (LAM). Actually, plug and play.

G.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Eric W Anderson wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> I've had pretty good luck using Snow with with Rpvm.  It's definitely
> not what you'd call "plug and play," but it does work.  I'm using it on
> a single computer to just take advantage of multiple processors, and it
> does a pretty good job of keeping them busy.  The main gotchas I've
> found with Snow are in data dissemination:  You may have to
> clusterCall(cl, "require(foo)") or clusterExport(cl,bar) more things
> than you would have expected.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 
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