Definitely if you want to make sure of the cores. On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Hesen Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see. So is it a good idea to use the snow package in running > programs on my intel duo core computer? > > 2008/11/23 jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> R is single threaded except for some the BLAS matrix routines; it will >> only effective use a single core most of the time unless you have a >> problem that is making heavy use of matrix operations. >> >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Hesen Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> My Dear R buddies, >>> >>> I'm feeling ashamed that I've been running my R program on some >>> servers for a while but do not know exactly how R is working. The >>> servers are chained together using Sun Grid Engine. Each node has 8 >>> quad-core CPUs. I wonder how many cores and CPUs are used by a simple >>> single-thread R program. Thanks a lot. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> -- >>> 彭河森 Hesen Peng >>> http://hesen.peng.googlepages.com/ >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Holtman >> Cincinnati, OH >> +1 513 646 9390 >> >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve? >> > > > > -- > 彭河森 Hesen Peng > http://hesen.peng.googlepages.com/ >
-- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
