Greetings HPC SIG,

I recently found out my school has a HPC project where they use Beowulf
clusters and I was really hoping to wield this computing power before I
finish my last semester; mostly to be acquainted with the workflow but also
to run some large simulations for the course I'll be in.
Suggestions for any interesting topics I might try are welcome.

What I really need is some idea of what libraries I would need to have in
order to run some R jobs on the system. It will take a bit of negotiation
with the admins to get the packages I need so I'd like to have as complete a
list as possible to start. I can get the details of the setup if that would
be necessary.

Also, I've seen the list of relevant packages (
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html) but my
knowledge of computing only goes so far (my knowledge of HPC even less so)
and my fall-back method of ctrl-f "beowulf" turned up no results.

Thanks for the help,

Michael DePersio
M.S. Candidate
Georgetown University Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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