Re: [R] Open source project that needs performance optimizations

2016-03-28 Thread Giorgio Garziano
Yes, I think it is worth evaluating what available at:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html

and as a thesis to tackle a "real-life" use case where R language and some of 
those High Performance Computing packages
are used to solve problems about.
Or you may implement a new R package to provide solution to a performance 
optimization scenario of your interest.

Also consider what available at:

http://www.teraproc.com/front-page-posts/r-on-demand/


Best,

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GG



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Re: [R] Open source project that needs performance optimizations

2016-03-27 Thread Robert Sherry
I am not up on the internals of R but there does seem some run for 
parallelism. Are we talking about special hardware? or running this on 
an Intel Box? If it is the second, then I am thinking threads would be 
the way to go. Please consider the following

R statements:
for( i in 1:30 )a[i] = f1(i)
Would it make sense to  setup a separate thread for each call to f1?  I 
think it in most cases, the answer is no but on some machines and 
depending on the running time of f1, it could be a big win. Also, does 
the user have to change his code, or would R be
smart enough to do the work behind the scenes. I consider the second to 
be significantly better than the first.


You may also want to look at the following URL
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395309/how-to-make-r-use-all-processors

Bob

On 3/27/2016 11:52 AM, PSATHAS NILOS-HRISTOS wrote:

Hello,
i am an undergraduate student on computer engineering and im 
considering to do my thesis to an open source project and make 
performance optimizations and/or add parallelism to it where possible 
(or even better make use of GPU). Do you think that R-project is a 
good candidate?


Thanks,
Psathas Neilos

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[R] Open source project that needs performance optimizations

2016-03-27 Thread PSATHAS NILOS-HRISTOS

Hello,
i am an undergraduate student on computer engineering and im  
considering to do my thesis to an open source project and make  
performance optimizations and/or add parallelism to it where possible  
(or even better make use of GPU). Do you think that R-project is a  
good candidate?


Thanks,
Psathas Neilos

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