How to Speed up R on the G5
On 08/02/2005, at 10:15 PM, r-sig-mac-request@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
Regarding the question of whether veclib is parallelized, I'm reasonably sure that it is. ...........
Just to observe there is a thread about exactly these issues on r-help under the title 'R on Beowulf cluster?' The discussion is equally applicable to multi CPU machines such as high end Macs. The following expands on the packages I mentioned:
look into the following knot of CRAN packages: SNOW Rmpi Rpvm rlecuyer rsprng SNOW-FT RScaLAPACK et cetera. these provide some pretty interesting bits - like a suite of parallelized apply() functions. --elijah
Bill Northcott