R help - Mar 2006 - R + calculations on clusters

Dear community,

if I install R locally as some user on a server without root rights, will R
be cabable of performing calculations on a cluster spreading the job on
several cpu's and nodes? Or will R just simulate that it is doing so while
just using one cpu in reality?

regards

Benjamin

On 3/9/06 5:58 AM, "Benjamin Otto" <b.otto at
uke.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Dear community,
> 
> if I install R locally as some user on a server without root rights, will R
> be cabable of performing calculations on a cluster spreading the job on
> several cpu's and nodes? Or will R just simulate that it is doing so
while
> just using one cpu in reality?
Benjamin,

R will not "spread the job" to different nodes on a cluster without
you
writing parallelized code (and this is not a function of where or how R is
installed).  Rmpi, RPVM, and the snow packages are useful for doing this.

Sean