R help - Nov 2010 - Who uses R with multicore, SNOW or CUDA package for resource intense computing?

Hi,

who of you in this forum uses R (http://www.r-project.org/) with the
multicore, SNOW or CUDA packages, so for advanced calculations that need
more power than a workstation CPU? On which hardware do you compute these
scripts? At home/ at work or do you have data center access somewhere?

The background of these questions is the following: I am currently writing
my M.Sc. thesis about R and High-Performance-Computing and need a strong
knowledge about who actually uses R. I read that R had 1 million users in
2008, bu thats more or less the only user statistics I could find on this
topic - so I hope for your answers!

Sincerely Heinrich
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R doesnot have a 1 million or two million users (thats an Urban legend
thanks to Vance NYT article)

. The exact number is not proven and estimated by a variety of
association  by proxy methods. It could be as low as 5,00,000 or as
many as 5 million users. It's like speculating which private equity
companies is Goodnight investing in. A better estimate would be
counting the number of downloads of R 2.12 or analytical log analysis
of various CRAN websites.

You can read my 2 cents on using SNOW, DOSNOW, FOREACH on Multi
Processor Amazon Instance Here- it is not quite theory but more like a
step by step screenshot tutorial- insert your own algol in it to see
the ramp up speed. It is an elaboration of the Grossman original
opendata post and mashes a bit of code for Tal G (replacing Revo's
package for making the connection)

http://decisionstats.com/2010/09/27/running-a-r-guiand-parallel-programming-on-amazon-ec2/

or if you like to use Revo's packages or find it difficult to go just
commado line -

 run Ec2 on Windows (and I havent managed the Ubuntu port yet- though
EC2 does have REL instances.

http://decisionstats.com/2010/10/02/running-r-on-amazon-ec2-windows/

An additional point is Amazon Micro instances are free for a year- for
linux but limited to 600~ mb RAM and you probably need to use the
small (>2 processor instance) to sandbox

Websites-
http://decisionstats.com
http://dudeofdata.com


Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri





On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, erik <handywurst at gmx.net>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> who of you in this forum uses R (http://www.r-project.org/) with the
> multicore, SNOW or CUDA packages, so for advanced calculations that need
> more power than a workstation CPU? On which hardware do you compute these
> scripts? At home/ at work or do you have data center access somewhere?
>
> The background of these questions is the following: I am currently writing
> my M.Sc. thesis about R and High-Performance-Computing and need a strong
> knowledge about who actually uses R. I read that R had 1 million users in
> 2008, bu thats more or less the only user statistics I could find on this
> topic - so I hope for your answers!
>
> Sincerely Heinrich
> --
> View this message in context:
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