Hi all, I have just found out that the machine learning group in our Faculty has a lot of spare capacity on their FreeNX servers. I do not know a lot about these beasts but I understand that they are a free version of something produced by a firm called "NoMachine".
They are designed for executing parallel algorithms and I thought that they might be of use in a project of mine comparing different model-fitting algorithms from the point of view of sensitivity to starting values. Anyway before revealing my near-total ignorance to my computer science colleagues I thought I would ask if any of my fellow R users have any experience with these things and possibly advice to offer. The CS people are probably using the servers in conjunction with Java or C++ and I could possibly use the latter of these. I wondered, though, if R could be used directly with such hardware and if so, how the parallelizing would be handled. Regards, Murray Jorgensen -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: m...@waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk Home +64 7 825 0441 Mobile 021 0200 8350 ______________________________________________ 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.
