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The next generation of parallel R
Mon 7 Nov 2011 - 15:02
In view of open-source parallel computing with R this week presents a big step to the future.
R 2.14.0 was released at October 31th, 2011.
Now, R base ships with a parallel computing package called “parallel”.
library(parallel)
It combines advantages of the packages multicore and snow and it contains support for multiple RNG streams. The version released for R 2.14.0 contains base functionality, higher-level convenience functions are planned. If you are used to snow or multicore there isn’t much to learn. Test it and enjoy parallel computing with R!
More information about the new release you can find at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS.html
more details can be found here
http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-next-generation-of-parallel-r/
R 2.14.0 was released at October 31th, 2011.
Now, R base ships with a parallel computing package called “parallel”.
library(parallel)
It combines advantages of the packages multicore and snow and it contains support for multiple RNG streams. The version released for R 2.14.0 contains base functionality, higher-level convenience functions are planned. If you are used to snow or multicore there isn’t much to learn. Test it and enjoy parallel computing with R!
More information about the new release you can find at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS.html
more details can be found here
http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-next-generation-of-parallel-r/
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