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

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta cgb at datanalytics.com
Thu Jan 21 23:10:18 CET 2010


You can perhaps have a look at

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e8/help/09/12/9382.html

and

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e8/help/09/12/9486.html

Best regards,

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
http://www.datanalytics.com

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.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Wei-han
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