Dear All,

I am learning parallel in R and start with the package "snow". I did a test
about running time and the parallel version is much slower than the regulat
code. My laptop is X200s with dual core intel L9400 cpu.
Should I make more clusters than 2? Or how to improve the performance?

# install.packages("snow")
library(snow)
cl <- makeCluster(2)
t1 <- proc.time()
a <- c()
for (i in 1:1000)
{
a[i] <- sum(parSapply(cl, 1:15, get("+"), 2))
}
proc.time()-t1
t2 <- proc.time()
a <- c()
for (i in 1:1000)
{
a[i] <- sum(sapply(1:15, "+", 2))
}
proc.time()-t2

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