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...shared-memory programmer's view for R, to complement the mainly message-passing paradigms of snow, Rmpi and now REvolution's new packages. Since that talk, I've been working on such a package, which I call Rdsm ("R distributed shared memory"), modeled after a similar package, PerlDSM, I wrote for Perl some years ago. Note that the word "distributed" here means that the memory is not really shared, but instead is an abstraction, to give the programmer a shared-memory view even though the program may be running on several separate machines. For C/C++ this is general...

As I mentioned last week, I've been developing a package that I call Rdsm ("R distributed shared memory"), modeled after a similar package, PerlDSM, I wrote for Perl some years ago. It is now in alpha form, so I'm not uploading to CRAN yet, but it is definitely usable, and I am releasing it at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/R/Rdsm I hope many try it out, and give me some feedback. Note that the word "distributed" her...