On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Milton Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, some years ago I was told that R does not take advantage of > multiple processors. Has there been any improvement in that area? This > would have an impact on configuring the new system with more processors > vs. fewer but faster ones.
That's correct, R cannot automatically take advantage of multiple processors. There are more and more packages that will help you more-or-less easily write code that can run in parallel over multiple processors: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html But you still have to actually learn how to use the package, write your code in a parallel way, etc., if you want to get the speedup. -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ R-lang mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/r-lang
