Hello, I am trying to do some parallel programming with R. I programmed with C and MPI before. I heard that there is a package called Rmpi and one called snow. What is the difference? I know the administrator installed snow in our system so I wonder if this mean there is Rmpi in it. I believe the Rmpi will have similar functions than MPI that is why I am specially interested in it. Thanks for your help Isabel
Isabel <icasas at maths.uwa.edu.au> writes:> I am trying to do some parallel programming with R. I programmed with C > and MPI before. I heard that there is a package called Rmpi and one called > snow. What is the difference?Frequently that type of question is answered in the documentation for the two packages. Did you try looking at http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/ and http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html -- Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/