[R-sig-Debian] revolution mkl with R 3.01 on Ubuntu 13.04

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 July 2013 at 22:14, Elizabeth Tighe wrote:
| 
| Dirk,  That worked! Sort of.  It's gone from running processes on one 
| processor to two processors and Rbenchmark ran in 64 seconds rather than 
| 178.  Is there a way to get it to use more than 2 processors when it 
| can?  (revo mkl used all available processors by default).

That is by R's "design choice" as the parallel package sets the default to
two.  See help(options), and/or the vignette for r-sig-hpc.

There have been helpful discussion over on r-sig-hpc over the months; you
probably want to lurk on that list / google-search its archives.

Dirk

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