Message-ID: <20021203023313.GA22525@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
Date: 2002-12-03T03:34:03Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Is there plan to make R multithread?
In-Reply-To: <87fztg6jff.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>
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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