parallel computing in R

Steve Adams <steve_adams_sd <at> yahoo.com> writes:

Hi, is there an excellent source of documentation for
installation, configuration of R packages
(Rmpi,snow,rsprng etc.) for parallel computing on
linus system?

In case you want it ready-to-run, Rmpi, SNOW, Rsprng, ... work out 
of the box under Quantian, which would give you openMosix to boot
which can make scheduling MPI/PVM easier. For more about Quantian,
see the pages at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian 

All three are also part of Debian so you could add them (pre-built, 
no less) to a regular Debian system, and possibly a derived system 
such as Ubuntu. Sprng was a bit tricky to build, the others are 
pretty standard.

I talked about it a little at Usenix last year and intend to revisit 
this for DSC 2005 in a couple of days. 

Hope this helps, Dirk