[R-sig-Geo] Graphic CPU usage in R

[Erin Hodgess]

Hello!

Are you using the PGI compiler, please?  If not, you may want to check that
out.  It works with Linux.
Thanks
Erin

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 5:54 AM maurizio marchi <maurizio.marchi using ibbr.cnr.it>
wrote:

> HI all,
> I'm a Linux user and (Ubuntu 18.04) and I was trying to find a way to
> speed up my R code. Reading on the web I found than some packages such
> as parallel or gpuR have been developed to allow faster calculation in
> R. Anyway I was wondering whether any other ways were available. My
> question concern how to speed up old R codes involving GIS procedures
> and mainly using rgdal, raster, biomod2, dismo, sp or other Spatial
> packages.
> According to this post (here
> <
> https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/blog/article.php?article=posts%2F254-run-program-on-amd-dedicated-graphics-card.html>)
>
> it seems that as linuk user we can launch a specific program using GPU
> so I was wondering if this could be used with R. In other words I would
> like to solve the issue from the beginning, opening an R session from
> terminal running on the GPU instead of on CPU(s). Is it possible? Does
> anyone has experience on it?
> Here
> <
> https://www.researchgate.net/post/Parallel_computing_and_graphic_CPU_GCPU_usage_in_R_is_it_possible_with_ALL_R_packages>
>
> the question I opened on ResearchGate.
> Thank you in advance and happy new year to everybody
>
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