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Rmpi use

6 messages · Liaw, Andy, Markus Schmidberger, Whit Armstrong +2 more

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We use it a lot at the supercomputer in Munich. it works with 9000 
processors!
You should have a look to the snow package, the interface is much more 
user-friendly.

Or have look to our latest paper: www.jstatsoft.org/v31/i01

Best
Markus


Liaw, Andy schrieb:

  
    
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We use it a ton.  The Rmpi/snow/SLURM combo is very powerful.

See Dirk's tutorial (page 76):
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/bocDec2008introHPCwithR.pdf

-Whit



On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Markus Schmidberger
<schmidb at ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
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On 13 October 2009 at 08:11, Whit Armstrong wrote:
| We use it a ton.  The Rmpi/snow/SLURM combo is very powerful.
| 
| See Dirk's tutorial (page 76):
| http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/bocDec2008introHPCwithR.pdf

Thanks for the plug. Most recent URLs are actually 

  http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/useR2009cran2deb.pdf      
  http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/useR2009hpcTutorialHandout.pdf

for the slides and the 2-up handout version.

Dirk