Message-ID: <18894.11382.962289.970267@ron.nulle.part>
Date: 2009-03-28T13:56:06Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: recommended computing server for R (March 2009)?
In-Reply-To: <00221532cd0439f7c304662df25c@google.com>
On 28 March 2009 at 13:37, ivowel at gmail.com wrote:
| I need to speed up my monte-carlo simulations. my code is written in R (and
| it was also the cause of my many questions here over the last few days). my
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| with $10/GB of DRAM, this is no longer a bottleneck. For my application,
| parallelism is a given, since most of it is monte-carlo simulations. (I
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| My operating system will probably be ubuntu. (I also run a little of it on
| an OSX Mac Pro I own.)
One thing you could consider is renting the compute hours from the cloud:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
as EC2 now has a choice of Debian and Ubuntu (among others) and Debian /
Ubuntu have R and Open MPI work out of the box. Examples as in my 'Intro to
High Performance Computing with R' tutorials from UseR and the BoC [ google
for the pdf slides if interested ] should apply 'as is', you don't need to
fiddle with (physical) hardware and can scale up CPU resources as needed.
Dirk
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