Re: Advice on cluster hardware
"Jeffrey B. Layton" <laytonjb@comcast.net> writes:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
>
>>Although this list seems to have been quiet recently, perhaps there are
>>some folks out there with wisdom to share. I didn't turn up much in the
>>archives.
>>
>>The group I am in is about to purchase a cluster. If anyone on this
>>list has any advice on what type of hardware (or software) would be
>>best, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>>We will have two broad types of uses: simulation studies for
>>epidemiology (with people or cases as the units) and genetic and protein
>>studies, with which I am less familiar. The simulation studies are
>>likely to make heavy use of R. I suspect that the two uses have much
>>different characteristics, e.g., in terms of the size of the datasets to
>>manipulate and the best tradeoffs outlined below.
>>
>
> Are the code MPI at all? I've only looked at R in passing
> so I don't know if it's parallel or not.
R can use LAM-MPI, sockets, or PVM to pass/distribute jobs to other
R/C/Fortran/etc message-passing enabled processes.
best,
-tony
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