[R] R on Multi Core

Michael Bibo michael_bibo at health.qld.gov.au
Mon Sep 14 01:59:02 CEST 2009


Noah Silverman <noah <at> smartmediacorp.com> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Our discussions about 64 bit R has led me to another thought.
> 
> I have a nice dual core 3.0 chip inside my Linux Box  (Running Fedora 11.)
> 
> Is there a version of R that would take advantage of BOTH cores??
> (Watching my system performance meter now is interesting, Running R will 
> hold a single core at 100% perfectly, but the other core sites idle.)
> 
You might be interested in this article: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v31/i01

Michael Bibo




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