You might want to take a look at Dirk's course notes: dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/bocDec2008introHPCwithR.pdf
to understand what R can do in general. I use nws and Rpmi (via the snow package). I haven't tried the multicore package yet. You have the required libraries for mpi, so you might want to start there. The snow package is pretty easy to used, as is foreach. Max On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Steve Lianoglou<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Matthew Fero wrote: > >> I'm wondering what is the best way is to take advantage of the multiple >> CPUs on a MacPro? For example, does someone have suggestions on how to >> setup and use parApply functions, in the snow package, on a multi-core Mac? > > I don't know if it's the best, but lately I like using the foreach package > with the multicore backend > > * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/foreach/index.html > * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/index.html > * http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multicore/ > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Max _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
