Steve, Martin already mentioned r-sig-hpc and the HPC task view for the bulk of your questions. The Schmidbger et al paper (linked from the Task View) should address a few of your questions.
Just two more quick add-ons: On 31 July 2009 at 09:22, steve_fried...@nps.gov wrote: | 5) Can we take advantage of sharing the graphics CPU, via R CUDA, in a | parallel distributed shared cluster of dedicated machines ? Besides the somewhat exploratory package 'gputools' from U Mich (linked from the Task View), there is no 'R CUDA' yet. | 7) I currently have a laptop with Ubuntu with R Version 2.6.2 | (2008-02-08). What is the most recent R version for Ubuntu and what is the | installation procedure ? The newest is R 2.9.1, see http://cran.r-project/bin/linux/ubuntu which explains things in more detail. For more questions, come to the r-sig-debian list is for Debian and Ubuntu specific questions. Debian and Ubuntu do have good support for Rmpi etc. | These are just the initial questions that I'm sure to have. If these are | being directed to the wrong help pages, I'm sorry to have taken your time. | If you would be so kind as to direct me to the more appropriate help site | I'd appreciate your assistance. There are 'special interest group' mailing lists for HPC (see above), Debian/Ubuntu and for geographic / spatial modelling. Hth, 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.