[R] R or C++ on FreeNX servers

[Murray Jorgensen]

Hi all,

I have just found out that the machine learning group in our Faculty has 
a lot of spare capacity on their FreeNX servers. I do not know a lot 
about these beasts but I understand that they are a free version of 
something produced by a firm called "NoMachine".

They are designed for executing parallel algorithms and I thought that 
they might be of use in a project of mine comparing different 
model-fitting algorithms from the point of view of sensitivity to 
starting values.

Anyway before revealing my near-total ignorance to my computer science 
colleagues I thought I would ask if any of my fellow R users have any 
experience with these things and possibly advice to offer. The CS people 
  are probably using the servers in conjunction with Java or C++ and I 
could possibly use the latter of these. I wondered, though, if R could 
be used directly with such hardware and if so, how the parallelizing 
would be handled.


Regards,   Murray Jorgensen

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