Thank you!

I subscribed to R-hpc, thanks. I replied and I'm waiting for list approval.

I am willing to work, but I'm not sure what to do to get these to work.  I
literally started using the cloud yesterday and R a couple months ago.

I don't know where to start because, it looks like rzmq is not available
for Windows and it looks like AWS.tools and deathstar depend on rzmq, so by
dependency they seem unavailable to me since I have a local Windows box. Or
do I have this wrong? I want to work, but where do I start? Will using a
local Windows box continue to be an issue as I progress with R and EC2?
I've run into several hurdles already, including some that are not
associated with the cloud.

Thank you for your help!

Ben




On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit@gmail.com>wrote:

> subscribe to R-hpc.
>
> and check out these:
> https://github.com/armstrtw/rzmq
> https://github.com/armstrtw/AWS.tools
> https://github.com/armstrtw/deathstar
>
> and this:
> http://code.google.com/p/segue/
>
> If you're willing to work, you can probably get deathstar to work
> using a local windows box and remote linux nodes.
>
> -Whit
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Ben quant <ccquant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm working with the gam function and due to the amount of data I am
> > working with it is taking a long time to run. I looked at the tips to get
> > it to run faster, but none have acceptable side effects. That is the real
> > problem.
> >
> > I have accepted that gam will run a long time. I will be running gam many
> > times for many different models. To make gam useable I am looking at
> > splitting the work up and putting all of it on an Amazon EC2 cloud. I
> have
> > a Windows machine and I'm (planning on) running Linux EC2 instances via
> > Amazon.
> >
> > I have R running on one EC2 instance now. Now I'm looking to:
> >
> > 1) division of processing
> > 2) creating/terminating instances via R
> > 3) porting code and data to the cloud
> > 4) producing plots on the cloud and getting them back on my (Windows)
> > computer for review
> > 5) do all of the above programmically (over night)
> >
> > I am new'ish to R, brand new to the cloud, and I am new to Linux (but I
> > have access to a Linux expert at my company). I'm looking for 1) guidance
> > so I am headed in the best direction from the start, 2) any gotchas I can
> > learn from, 3) package suggestions.
> >
> > Thank you very much for your assistance!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ben
> >
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