Dear forumities,

Did anyone tried pqR for spatial analyses ? I don't know if the worth the case (I will have to try myself) but it seems that pqR (which was released last week) is able to perform operations in parallel, especially on matrices so I guess it could substantially reduce the computation time when e.g., doing simple mathematical operations on rasters.


"One notable improvement is that pqR is able to do some numeric computations in parallel with each other, and with other operations of the interpreter, on systems with multiple processors or processor cores" (http://radfordneal.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/announcing-pqr-a-faster-version-of-r/)
The program is only available for the moment, for UNIX and Linux platforms although it seems to run correctly on Mac.
Any thoughts?
Yan

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