Parallel R
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Bazman76 <h_a_patience at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi there, I have a largish optimisation problem (10 years of daily observations). I want to optimise between 4 and 6 parameters. I'd like to utilise parallel computing if I can as I will have to run it with different starting values etc. I have a quad core PC with 16GB ram running windows 7. Having done a little reading it seems the two best options for me are: 1.) Use the academic version of REvolution R enterprise which will let me run the code in parallel on my own PC. 2.) Or install Unubtu and use Segue and Amazon EC2 (or some equivalent). Just to get an idea how much faster is option 2 liable to be (given that its slightly more difficult to set up). Is it realistic to have a dual boot on my PC?
"Regular" R allows for parallel computation also on all supported platforms (including Windows)... look at the included 'parallel' package. Some optimizers (DEoptim perhaps?) will have auto-parallelization available as well. Cheers, Michael
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