Message-ID: <1abe3fa90904220302n5a7c4012l279b8a66b89d6bba@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-04-22T10:02:36Z
From: A.J. Rossini
Subject: How to install R on a linux cluster.
In-Reply-To: <49EEBBB7.2030308@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Markus Schmidberger
<schmidb at ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> The multicore package ?was released in January 2009, we did the review in
> end of 2008 )-:
> Up to 50 nodes snow and multicore have the identical performance. If you have
> problems which require a lot of memory and they can share the memory, than
> multicore has the better performance (snow than requires a lot of
> communication).
Only a small comment -- it would be nice to have a multicore backend
(should be somewhat trivial) for SNOW.... (i.e. allowing the same
API, in the same way that you can use an NWS backend for SNOW -- of
course, it would be nice to cleanup and modernize the SNOW api, as
well.
<ducking type=quickly, since I'm not going to do it right now/>
best,
-tony
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