From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Thu Mar 11 15:49:14 1999
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:49:14 -0500
Subject: [R] re: smp in Linux
References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903100821400.4178-100000@wompom.biostat.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <99Mar11.111420est.13505@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>

>On the other hand, most of the problems I have where speed is an issue are
>simulations or bootstrapping problems that scale almost perfectly by
>running 1/n as many on each of n processors.

This has been my experience too, and I have lots of problems like this. It would
sure be nice to have some possibility like:

parallelfor (i in 1:N, listofmachines )  x[[i]] <- simulate(model[[i]],
data[[i]])

Paul Gilbert

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[R] re: smp in Linux
Paul Gilbert