Have you considered using Amazon EC2? If you search on
http://www.r-bloggers.com, people have written about their experiences.

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michael Haenlein
<haenlein@escpeurope.eu>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm currently running R on my laptop -- a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 (Intel Core
> i7 CPU, M620, 2.67 Ghz, 8 GB RAM). The problem is that some of my
> calculations run for several days sometimes even weeks (mainly simulations
> over a large parameter space). Depending on the external conditions, my
> laptop sometimes shuts down due to overheating.
>
> I'm now thinking about buying a more powerful desktop PC or laptop. Can
> anybody advise me on the best configuration to run R as fast as possible? I
> will use this PC exclusively for R so any other factors are of limited
> importance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
> Michael Haenlein
> Assocaite Professor of Marketing
> ESCP Europe
> Paris, France
>
>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>



-- 
Hrishi Mittal
Founder, Pretty Graph <http://prettygraph.com>
Make your data sing!

London, UK
+44 7910 306 977

Sign up to our newsletter for useful and interesting
updates<http://eepurl.com/bqCyj>

Our blog - http://www.prettygraph.com/blog/

Follow us on Twitter: @prettygraph <http://twitter.com/prettygraph>
Like us on Facebook: Our Facebook
Page<http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Pretty-Graph/223774442309>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

