How to Speed up R on the G5
It would be good to know how it goes. Bill
On 09/02/2005, at 12:09 PM, elijah wright 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.
Definitely so. [that's actually what i have, here, and have gotten all but a couple of those packages running under OSX, now... I'm hopeful that i'll get the rest worked out in the next week or so.] --elijah
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