On 28 March 2009 at 13:37, ivo...@gmail.com wrote: | I need to speed up my monte-carlo simulations. my code is written in R (and | it was also the cause of my many questions here over the last few days). my [...] | with $10/GB of DRAM, this is no longer a bottleneck. For my application, | parallelism is a given, since most of it is monte-carlo simulations. (I [...] | My operating system will probably be ubuntu. (I also run a little of it on | an OSX Mac Pro I own.)
One thing you could consider is renting the compute hours from the cloud: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2 as EC2 now has a choice of Debian and Ubuntu (among others) and Debian / Ubuntu have R and Open MPI work out of the box. Examples as in my 'Intro to High Performance Computing with R' tutorials from UseR and the BoC [ google for the pdf slides if interested ] should apply 'as is', you don't need to fiddle with (physical) hardware and can scale up CPU resources as needed. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ 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.