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Parallel Programming with R

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The are 10s of potential packages that could be used, as a starting point we’d direct your to here: CRAN Task View: High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R.

One thing to consider with respect to what package you wish to explore is whether it provides multi-node functionality (such as Rmpi) or just multicore (parallel) on a single compute node, and/or cluster features.

Note

Remember: Just asking for multiple nodes (and GPUs) won’t actually make your code run faster unless the underlying package can actually utilize them.

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