Message-ID: <510FD97D-DA94-402B-BB8C-CF1EAA218D5F@gmail.com>
Date: 2009-08-31T16:13:48Z
From: Steve Lianoglou
Subject: Multiple threads on MacPro
In-Reply-To: <DD3E20EA-6D38-451F-B2FF-0990ACB6EA2A@fhcrc.org>
Hi,
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Matthew Fero wrote:
> I'm wondering what is the best way is to take advantage of the
> multiple CPUs on a MacPro? For example, does someone have
> suggestions on how to setup and use parApply functions, in the snow
> package, on a multi-core Mac?
I don't know if it's the best, but lately I like using the foreach
package with the multicore backend
* http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreach/index.html
* http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/index.html
* http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multicore/
-steve
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Steve Lianoglou
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