From tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca  Sat Apr 19 21:23:03 2008
From: tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca (tyler)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:23:03 -0300
Subject: [Rd] naive question regarding running parallel C code from R
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Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:
>
> As I recall, you use Debian so do
>
>    $ sudo apt-get install r-cran-snow r-cran-rmpi
>
> to get R support working out-of-the box. Then study the examples for Snow on
> Luke's website. [ I also have some slides on my website from presentations I
> gave a few years ago. ]
>
> That allows you to _easily_ do the so-called embarassingly parallel: same
> problem, different parameters.  Or, you could also loop over CYCLES across
> the cluster.  Start with something simple to study it and then go from there.
>
> Hope this helps, Dirk
>

Very much! Thanks Dirk and Simon - I've got snow and rmpi installed and
I'll start from there.

Cheers,

Tyler

-- 
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale 
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
                                       --Mark Twain



[Rd] naive question regarding running parallel C code from R
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