[R-sig-hpc] distributed R on EC2, designing the software stack

[Steve Weston]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 29 April 2009 at 12:06, Stephen J. Barr wrote:

> | 3)  R 2.9.0 + twisted + NetWorkSpaces
> |    - not sure of Amazon's network supports broadcast mode, which is
> | required by twisted
>
> Should also works out-of-the box via the r-cran-nws and python-nwsserver
> package I maintain.

Note that the way NetWorkSpaces uses twisted does not require
any special broadcast mode.

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