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foreach + snowfall for multicore situations
3 messages · Tal Galili, Steve Lianoglou
Hi Tal,
On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Tal Galili wrote:
Hello dear R community. I just started playing with the snowfall package (a wrapper for the snow package), and found it very convenient. (See also this great website: http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/parallel/ ) I was wondering if it is possible to connect snowfall with the foreach package (since it has some connection to snow). My final goal is to do some simple parallel simulations on my two processors.
It seems you want to parallelize your computation on a single computer, so what benefit do you find using snow/snowfall over using the foreach w/ multicore backend? Just curious because I've moved off of any snow* related packages since I only parallelize on the same box and find that the foreach/ doMC combo works just fine. -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
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