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Denis,
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stefano

Hi,

I cannot get to a ftp site to subscribe to this list, is it done by 
asking here? I am new to R and encountered some problems while taking 
my first steps...

Sincerely,

Denis Chabot

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Hi.

I'm wondering if anyone has tried to/used R with Xgrid. If so, I'd be
interested to hear any tips anyone might have about making this work
(using either clusters of OS X machines or clusters of Linux/Solaris/OS X
machines).

I'd also be interested to hear if people think that Xgrid would be better
than one of the other extant parallel-R options out there (like Rmpi or
one of the other ones).

Thanks!

Jake Bowers
Dept of Political Science
University of Michigan
http://www.umich.edu/~jwbowers

I'm wondering if anyone has tried to/used R with Xgrid. If so, I'd be
interested to hear any tips anyone might have about making this work
(using either clusters of OS X machines or clusters of Linux/Solaris/OS
X machines).

not yet.  we're waiting for a lab full of g5 hardware to arrive.  our g4's
are too slow (dual 533 and 733mhz machines) for the tasks that we'd like
to carry out.

I'd also be interested to hear if people think that Xgrid would be better
than one of the other extant parallel-R options out there (like Rmpi or
one of the other ones).

it almost certainly depends on what you're doing and how much programmer
time you're willing to invest.  look at the ParallelR pages, and
especially the rscalapack stuff.  high level, lets you do factor analysis
and principle components analysis on a cluster.

Have you tried Quantian?  bootable linux cd images of R and related
stuff...

Dirk (the quantian packager) , are you on this list?  :)

elijah