How to install R on a linux cluster.
In un messaggio del Tuesday 21 April 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel ha scritto:
On 21 April 2009 at 10:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | and you have R with MPI and the snow wrapper package. Not a bad place to | start as per the Schmidberger er al paper surveying parallel computing | with Linux. That was meant to say: "... surveying parallel computing with R." -- sorry.
Great review. No mention of multicore, though. I'm starting setting up an 8-core from Oracle (ops, I meant Sun), and I was wondering if there was really any advantage in multicore vs. snow/snowfall. Any hints are welcome, will digest back to list.
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