[R] recommended computing server for R (March 2009)?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 March 2009 at 13:37, ivowel at gmail.com wrote:
| I need to speed up my monte-carlo simulations. my code is written in R (and  
| it was also the cause of my many questions here over the last few days). my  
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| with $10/GB of DRAM, this is no longer a bottleneck. For my application,  
| parallelism is a given, since most of it is monte-carlo simulations. (I  
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| My operating system will probably be ubuntu. (I also run a little of it on  
| an OSX Mac Pro I own.)

One thing you could consider is renting the compute hours from the cloud:

    http://aws.amazon.com/ec2

as EC2 now has a choice of Debian and Ubuntu (among others) and Debian /
Ubuntu have R and Open MPI work out of the box.  Examples as in my 'Intro to
High Performance Computing with R' tutorials from UseR and the BoC [ google
for the pdf slides if interested ] should apply 'as is', you don't need to
fiddle with (physical) hardware and can scale up CPU resources as needed.

Dirk

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