[R] Snow rvpm

2005-12-01 Thread vittorio
At office, using the internal LAN at my disposal, I'm having a go at parallel computing - to begin with - with pvm, rpvm snow. The two boxes are as follows Remote machine uffbsd: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1994.13-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf24 Stepping =

Re: [R] Snow rvpm

2005-12-01 Thread Martin Morgan
In the example at http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html clusterCall divides the parameter R by the number of nodes -- what you've done is calculate 999 bootstraps on each node, and compared the execution time to 999 bootstraps on one node. You probably want 'clusterCall' to be

Re: [R] Snow rvpm

2005-12-01 Thread vittorio
Alle 19:03, giovedì 01 dicembre 2005, Martin Morgan ha scritto: In the example at http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html clusterCall divides the parameter R by the number of nodes -- what you've done is calculate 999 bootstraps on each node, and compared the execution time to