On 07/14/2010 07:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
It is capable of handling large data, but not that large in a single matrix. The limit on the number of entries in any vector (and matrices are stored as vectors) is about 2^31 ~ 2 billion. Your matrix needs about 340 billion entries, so it's too big. (It won't all fit in memory,
Thank you for confirming this.
You need to break up the work into smaller pieces.
i agree, i will review what a sparse matrix is and how that impacts our overall calculations.
is it possible to distribute calculations through R across computers? so if i strung a series of PS3's(or the lab computers, ps3 cluster is just a fantasy) together, could those pieces then be distributed?
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