From tplate at blackmesacapital.com  Mon Mar 22 18:00:18 2004
From: tplate at blackmesacapital.com (Tony Plate)
Date: Mon Mar 22 18:01:50 2004
Subject: [Rd] Distributed computing
In-Reply-To: <4CFF80F2-7BE2-11D8-A658-000393CE2F0C@math.chalmers.se>
References: <4CFF80F2-7BE2-11D8-A658-000393CE2F0C@math.chalmers.se>
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The R-help list is probably better for this sort of question.  In any case, 
the R newsletter is a great source of accumulated (& distilled!) wisdom, 
and the following might be relevant.


@Article{Rnews:Li+Rossini:2001,
   author       = {Michael Na Li and A.J. Rossini},
   title        = {{RPVM}: Cluster Statistical Computing in {R}},
   journal      = {R News},
   year         = 2001,
   volume       = 1,
   number       = 3,
   pages        = {4--7},
   month        = {September},
   url          = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/}
}

@Article{Rnews:Yu:2002,
   author       = {Hao Yu},
   title        = {Rmpi: Parallel Statistical Computing in R},
   journal      = {R News},
   year         = 2002,
   volume       = 2,
   number       = 2,
   pages        = {10--14},
   month        = {June},
   url          = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/}
}


@Article{Rnews:Carson+Murison+Mason:2003,
   author       = {Brett Carson and Robert Murison and Ian A. Mason},
   title        = {Computational Gains Using {RPVM} on a Beowulf Cluster},
   journal      = {R News},
   year         = 2003,
   volume       = 3,
   number       = 1,
   pages        = {21--26},
   month        = {June},
   url          = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/}
}


hope this helps,

Tony Plate


At Monday 02:21 AM 3/22/2004, Anders Sjgren wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>does anyone know if there exists an effort to bring some kind of 
>distributed computing to R? The most simple functionality I'm after is to 
>be able to explicitly perform a task on a computing server. Sorry if this 
>is a non-informed newbie question...
>
>Best regards
>
>Anders Sjgren
>
>PhD Student
>Dept. of Mathematical Statistics
>Chalmers University of Technology
>Gothenburg, Sweden
>
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[Rd] Distributed computing
Tony Plate