From: A.J. Rossini (rossini@blindglobe.net)
Date: Tue 22 Jan 2002 - 15:20:42 EST
Message-id: <877kqbhv8l.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>
>>>>> "AL" == Agustin Lobo <alobo@ija.csic.es> writes:
AL> As far as I can see by searching the archieves, R could not
AL> take advantage of two processors in the same machine but there
AL> were plans for implementing multithreading in R. Is this work
AL> going on?
AL> On the other hand, if two processors are present in the same
AL> linux machine is it possible to focus one processor on tasks
AL> of the operative system and the other on R and/or other real
AL> computing? Could anyone point me to info on this subject?
There is always the truly coarse user-level approach: RPVM (instead of
threads, you are looking at processes, with flexible inter-process
communication).
The API is reasonably straightforward, and the additional plus is that
we (well, Michael) should soon have the SPRNG library usable by R, for
a reasonably verified parallel pseudo-RNG.
best,
-tony
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