Hi Moreno -- snow provides an easy interface to simple parallel types of calculations (e.g., lapply in parallel). I quickly wanted to have more direct control over how parallel computations were calculated, and have been using Rmpi. Though in principle snow and Rmpi are 'easy' to use, I found that they actually require a certain amount of understanding about R objects and evaluation, and the underlying communication library (MPI, or PVM).
Hope that helps, Martin "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear R users, > > I have access to a Sun cluster with multiple processors , a lot of > RAM and with RedHat installed. I want to take advantage of its > power for a R routine very time consuming. > > Whick package do I have to use? I know there are snow,snowFT and > others package.Which is the best for my purpose? Do someone have > experiences with this? > > Thanck in advance. > > Moreno > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
