The first thing to ascertain is that R will actually build on such a machine -- there have been a lot of reports of failure on AIX, and no recent reports of success.
If it does, R itself is single-threaded (but can make use of multi-threaded BLAS) but packages such as Rmpi, snow, RScaLAPACK provide parallel facilities (and are in the FAQ). On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Liao, Kexiao wrote: > Dear R Development Team, You actually wrote to R-help! > Does the latest version R-1.9.1 provide parallel functions if R is > running on Multiple CPUs Unix platform (IBM AIX e-server)? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
