[R-SIG-Mac] Multiple threads on MacPro

[Max Kuhn]

I also forgot about this:

  http://www.jstatsoft.org/v31/i01

Max

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Max Kuhn<mxkuhn at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to take a look at Dirk's course notes:
>
>   dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/bocDec2008introHPCwithR.pdf
>
> to understand what R can do in general. I use nws and Rpmi (via the
> snow package). I haven't tried the multicore package yet.
>
> You have the required libraries for mpi, so you might want to start
> there. The snow package is pretty easy to used, as is foreach.
>
> Max
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Steve
> Lianoglou<mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Matthew Fero wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering what is the best way is to take advantage of the multiple
>>> CPUs on a MacPro?  For example, does someone have suggestions on how to
>>> setup and use parApply functions, in the snow package, on a multi-core Mac?
>>
>> I don't know if it's the best, but lately I like using the foreach package
>> with the multicore backend
>>
>>  * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreach/index.html
>>  * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/index.html
>>  * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multicore/
>>
>> -steve
>>
>> --
>> Steve Lianoglou
>> Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
>>  |  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
>>  |  Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>> Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
>> R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Max
>



-- 

Max