[R-SIG-Mac] How to Speed up R on the G5
Bill Northcott
w.northcott at unsw.edu.au
Tue Feb 8 23:47:30 CET 2005
On 08/02/2005, at 10:15 PM, r-sig-mac-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
> Regarding the question of whether veclib is parallelized, I'm
> reasonably
> sure that it is. ...........
Just to observe there is a thread about exactly these issues on r-help
under the title
'R on Beowulf cluster?' The discussion is equally applicable to multi
CPU machines such as high end Macs.
The following expands on the packages I mentioned:
> look into the following knot of CRAN packages:
> SNOW
> Rmpi
> Rpvm
> rlecuyer
> rsprng
> SNOW-FT
> RScaLAPACK
> et cetera.
>
> these provide some pretty interesting bits - like a suite of
> parallelized
> apply() functions.
> --elijah
Bill Northcott
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