"Jeffrey B. Layton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ross Boylan wrote: > >>Although this list seems to have been quiet recently, perhaps there are >>some folks out there with wisdom to share. I didn't turn up much in the >>archives. >> >>The group I am in is about to purchase a cluster. If anyone on this >>list has any advice on what type of hardware (or software) would be >>best, I'd appreciate it. >> >>We will have two broad types of uses: simulation studies for >>epidemiology (with people or cases as the units) and genetic and protein >>studies, with which I am less familiar. The simulation studies are >>likely to make heavy use of R. I suspect that the two uses have much >>different characteristics, e.g., in terms of the size of the datasets to >>manipulate and the best tradeoffs outlined below. >> > > Are the code MPI at all? I've only looked at R in passing > so I don't know if it's parallel or not.
R can use LAM-MPI, sockets, or PVM to pass/distribute jobs to other R/C/Fortran/etc message-passing enabled processes. best, -tony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center UW (Tu/Th/F): 206-616-7630 FAX=206-543-3461 | Voicemail is unreliable FHCRC (M/W): 206-667-7025 FAX=206-667-4812 | use Email CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachments may be confidential and privileged. If you received this message in error, please destroy it and notify the sender. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
