Hi Steve,

Thanks for asking - I forgot to mention I use windows XP.
And the only support foreach has for windows (as far as I read from the
manuals so far) - is for the snow package.

Cheers,
Tal




On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Steve Lianoglou <
mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tal,
>
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Tal Galili wrote:
>
>  Hello dear R community.
>> I just started playing with the snowfall package (a wrapper for the snow
>> package), and found it very convenient.
>> (See also this great website:
>> http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/parallel/  )
>>
>> I was wondering if it is possible to connect snowfall with the foreach
>> package (since it has some connection to snow).
>>
>>
>> My final goal is to do some simple parallel simulations on my two
>> processors.
>>
>
> It seems you want to parallelize your computation on a single computer, so
> what benefit do you find using snow/snowfall over using the foreach w/
> multicore backend?
>
> Just curious because I've moved off of any snow* related packages since I
> only parallelize on the same box and find that the foreach/doMC combo works
> just fine.
>
> -steve
>
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