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Message-ID: <985EC062-19EA-4515-8FCA-BB23CD93B773@r-project.org>
Date: 2012-03-13T06:26:41Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: Matrix multiplication
In-Reply-To: <4F5DD2B3020000F900008F25@gwia1.boku.ac.at>

On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:40 AM, Patrik Waldmann wrote:

> Dear members,
> 
> I noticed that there isn't a function for matrix multiplication in the new parallel library. What would be the most efficient way to do a matrix multiplication there?
> 

The parallel package is for *explicit* parallelization. R already does implicit parallelization (using OpenMP or multi-threaded BLAS or both) automatically - this includes matrix multiplication.

Cheers,
Simon