> does anyone know if there exists an effort to bring some kind of > distributed computing to R? The most simple functionality I'm after is > to be able to explicitly perform a task on a computing server. Sorry if > this is a non-informed newbie question...
As an alternate to the PVM/MPI interfaces mentioned by other people, I am working on a (very soon to be released) project for using the ScaLAPACK library [1] through a simple R interface. If the tasks that you want run an a computing server are simple (LAPACK) functions (solve, svd, etc) and not whole R scripts, then this be useful. David Bauer [1] http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
