On 18 July 2013 at 22:14, Elizabeth Tighe wrote: | | Dirk, That worked! Sort of. It's gone from running processes on one | processor to two processors and Rbenchmark ran in 64 seconds rather than | 178. Is there a way to get it to use more than 2 processors when it | can? (revo mkl used all available processors by default).
That is by R's "design choice" as the parallel package sets the default to two. See help(options), and/or the vignette for r-sig-hpc. There have been helpful discussion over on r-sig-hpc over the months; you probably want to lurk on that list / google-search its archives. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
