From N.J.Lee@statslab.cam.ac.uk  Thu Mar 11 17:42:07 1999
From: N.J.Lee@statslab.cam.ac.uk (Nicholas Lee)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:42:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [R] re: smp in Linux
In-Reply-To: <99Mar11.111420est.13505@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990311173701.21260A-100000@tiger.statslab.cam.ac.uk>


On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> 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]]) 

Wouldn't it be better to do these sort of coase grain parallisation at a
higher level?  ie with a little bit of perl code, and/or some other load
distribution package from outside R. 

Nicholas


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[R] re: smp in Linux
Nicholas Lee