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sunwhpc
2008 Feb 11
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Viable Approach to Parallel R?
...oblems to be task-parallel or data-parallel,
but wouldn't mind getting an initial boost working with "embarrassingly
parallel" code sections and one of the approaches below.
Incidentally our environment includes R 2.6.1, RHEL 5.1, Solaris 10, SGE
(Sun Grid Engine) and OpenMPI 1.2.4 (SunHPC 7.1)).
In researching previous work, the most promising approaches seem to be:
A. Snow (with Rmpi or Rpvm) (as described in
http://www.r-project.org/useR-2006/Slides/Harrington+Salibian-Barrera.pd
f from the 2006 R User Conference)
It is my understanding that this approach is viable, and works w...