[R-SIG-Finance] Running R as a server or in a cluster

[Jeff Ryan]

About Sun's service,

Even better (not for me, as I've already signed up), is that they seem
to have a promo for a free 200 hrs on the www.network.com cluster.

Jeff

On 9/26/07, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Short of answers, but I do wonder if anyone has used Sun Microsystems
> www.network.com for grid work with R.  At 1USD a CPU hr, with R
> already built - and a working example script on the service - it seems
> like a path worth exploring.
>
> Has anyone given it a try.  I set up an account, but have yet to get
> the opportunity to try it out.
>
> Here is the link:
>
> http://www.network.com/apps/r_project.html
>
> Jeff Ryan
>
> On 9/26/07, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
> > Adrian Dragulescu wrote:
> > > We have set up a Condor cluster, see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ and we
> > > submit R jobs to the cluster.  It works well because Condor has very
> > > advanced scheduling capabilities, job monitoring, etc.
> >
> > Adrian,
> >
> > Could you provide more details?  Are you running Rserve on the cluster,
> > running "R CMD BATCH", or using Parallel-R?
> >
> > I'd like to suggest that we use this thread to continue to develop the
> > collective knowledge of the r-sig-finance community on distributed or
> > high-throughput R calculations.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >     - Brian
> >
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