Have you considered using Amazon EC2? If you search on http://www.r-bloggers.com, people have written about their experiences.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michael Haenlein <haenl...@escpeurope.eu>wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm currently running R on my laptop -- a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 (Intel Core > i7 CPU, M620, 2.67 Ghz, 8 GB RAM). The problem is that some of my > calculations run for several days sometimes even weeks (mainly simulations > over a large parameter space). Depending on the external conditions, my > laptop sometimes shuts down due to overheating. > > I'm now thinking about buying a more powerful desktop PC or laptop. Can > anybody advise me on the best configuration to run R as fast as possible? I > will use this PC exclusively for R so any other factors are of limited > importance. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > Michael Haenlein > Assocaite Professor of Marketing > ESCP Europe > Paris, France > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Hrishi Mittal Founder, Pretty Graph <http://prettygraph.com> Make your data sing! London, UK +44 7910 306 977 Sign up to our newsletter for useful and interesting updates<http://eepurl.com/bqCyj> Our blog - http://www.prettygraph.com/blog/ Follow us on Twitter: @prettygraph <http://twitter.com/prettygraph> Like us on Facebook: Our Facebook Page<http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Pretty-Graph/223774442309> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
