dear R experts:

private cloud: I know this is not the right mailing list, but I am hoping
that someone can point me in the right direction.  we have a heterogeneous
computing environment, mostly Windows-XP machines, which sit idle
overnight.  I have never used a cloud, but I presume a cloud would be
well-suited to econometric monte-carlo simulations.   so I wonder if there
is low-cost software that makes a private cloud out of such machines during
the night (and/or when idle).  would something like this based on
virtualbox+ubuntu  work well?  are there any whitepapers somewhere on the
subject?  (please email me directly; I don't want to hijack this group.)

openCL: is there any support for openCL forthcoming in an addon for R?
(optimally, this would be transparent, so that even non-hackers like myself
can use it easily, even if it speeds up only standard linear operations,
such as means, sdvs, and standard least-squares.)

regards,

/iaw
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Ivo Welch (ivo.welch@brown.edu, ivo.welch@gmail.com)

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