[R-SIG-Finance] to run R in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

[Brian G. Peterson]

Wei-han Liu wrote:
> Hi R users:
>
> I am a newbie to parallel computing. I am curious how to run R in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for a huge computation-intensive task.
>
>
> I know there are some R packages, e.g. snow and snowfall, to coordinate multi-core and multi-unit. So far, I have only worked out to use all the CPUs in my single computer. I assume that some commercial service are available for such demand and I do not to have work on the details for setting up the computing cloud.
>
> Please be kind to share some information.
>   
I will share the information of where to look, which is often the most 
important.

There is a separate R-SIG-HPC list and resources.  They have had many 
discussions on EC2 over there.

Check out the list archives or google 'r-sig-hpc ec2'

Regards,
 
     - Brian
   

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