Re: [R] R on a computer cluster

2008-02-17 Thread Jay Emerson
Gabriele, In addition to the suggestions from Markus (below), there is NetWorkSpaces (package nws). I have used both nws and snow together with a package I'm developing (bigmemoRy) which allocates matrices to shared memory (helping avoid the bottleneck Markus alluded to for processors on the same

Re: [R] R on a computer cluster

2008-02-16 Thread Markus Schmidberger
Hi, your required performance is strongly depending on your application. If you talk about a cluster, you should think about several computers. Not only one computer with several processors. If you have several computers. First of all you have to decide for a communication protocol for parallel

[R] R on a computer cluster

2008-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear all, I usually run R on my laptop with Windows XP Professional. Now I really want to run R on a computer cluster (4 processors) with Suse Linux Enterprise ver. 10. But I am new with computer cluster. Should I modify my functions in order to use the greater performance and availabili