R help - Sep 2009 - foreach + snowfall for multicore situations

Hello dear R community.
I just started playing with the snowfall package (a wrapper for the snow
package), and found it very convenient.
(See also this great website:
http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/parallel/  )

I was wondering if it is possible to connect snowfall with the foreach
package (since it has some connection to snow).


My final goal is to do some simple parallel simulations on my two
processors.

Thanks,
Tal












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Hi Tal,

On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Tal Galili wrote:
> Hello dear R community.
> I just started playing with the snowfall package (a wrapper for the  
> snow
> package), and found it very convenient.
> (See also this great website:
> http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/parallel/  )
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to connect snowfall with the foreach
> package (since it has some connection to snow).
>
>
> My final goal is to do some simple parallel simulations on my two
> processors.
It seems you want to parallelize your computation on a single  
computer, so what benefit do you find using snow/snowfall over using  
the foreach w/ multicore backend?

Just curious because I've moved off of any snow* related packages  
since I only parallelize on the same box and find that the foreach/ 
doMC combo works just fine.

-steve

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