On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Rob Forsyth wrote: > Alternatively I have an option to acquire a MacPro for this work and > would appreciate guidance as to whether it's possible to leverage > multiple processors? I'm aware R itself is not currently > multithreaded (whilst having only a lay understanding of what that > means).
One important thing here: while R is not multithreaded, on Mac OS X, R uses a special BLAS which is multithreaded. So anything involving linear algebra (which for some problems is a major part of the computational load), will benefit from having multiple CPUs in the same machine. Depending on your problem this may be indeed speed up your things. Kasper _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
