Dear All, The institute I work for is organizing an internal workshop for High Performance Computing (HPC). I am planning to attend it and talk a bit about fluid dynamics, but there is also quite a lot of interest devoted to data post-processing and management of huge data sets. A lot of people are interested in image processing/pattern recognition and statistic applied to geography/ecology, but I would like not to post this on too many lists. The final aim of the workshop is understanding hardware requirements and drafting a list of the equipment we would like to buy. I think this could be the venue to talk about R as well. Therefore, even if it is not exactly a typical mailing list question, I would like to have suggestions about where to collect info about: (1)Institutions (not only academia) using R (2)Hardware requirements, possibly benchmarks (3)R & clusters, R & multiple CPU machines, R performance on different hardware. (4)finally, a list of the advantages for using R over commercial statistical packages. The money-saving in itself is not a reason good enough and some people are scared by the lack of professional support, though this mailing list is simply wonderful.
Kind Regards Lorenzo Isella ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
