Is there plan to make R multithread?
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:21:56PM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote:
"mingliz" == mingliz <mingliz at surfbest.net> writes:
mingliz> Hello R Pioneers, I sometimes use R on a dual CPU PC
mingliz> runing Linux and find that only 1 CPU is used even when
mingliz> no other user/process competes for resources. Can we
mingliz> make R uses both CPUs to have the job done sooner? I
mingliz> know this is probably asking too much for something that
mingliz> is free. Has anyone else thought about it? Thanks.
mingliz> Ming Chow
Search the mailing list for past discussions on this topic. The short
answer is no you can't do it. The long answer is yes, you can do it
with a bit of programming (using PVM/MPI and SNOW).
Also see http://developer.r-project.org and e.g. the bullet point # Luke's notes on threading, GUI, and asynchronous IO issues. Some of the reference links are messed up; the full references are in the BibTeX file. Duncan also has a set of notes on threading. with its links. Dirk
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