On 05/12/2007, at 5:57 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Rob Forsyth wrote: >> options here. I am working on an iMac G5 and could access (at home - >> i.e. not on a LAN) another G5 and a G4. I've come across the R/MPI >> package but would appreciate advice as to how easy this is to set up >> (would it actually be simpler to divide the job "manually"?). > > With only three computers it would be easiest to divide the job > manually. >
Much easier, and if you have access to a machine with multiple processors, simply duplicate the R process to have the same number as the number of processors, and then run them simultaneously. Not as elegant and maybe not as efficient as other methods, but effective. Ken _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
