R doesnot have a 1 million or two million users (thats an Urban legend thanks to Vance NYT article)
. The exact number is not proven and estimated by a variety of association by proxy methods. It could be as low as 5,00,000 or as many as 5 million users. It's like speculating which private equity companies is Goodnight investing in. A better estimate would be counting the number of downloads of R 2.12 or analytical log analysis of various CRAN websites. You can read my 2 cents on using SNOW, DOSNOW, FOREACH on Multi Processor Amazon Instance Here- it is not quite theory but more like a step by step screenshot tutorial- insert your own algol in it to see the ramp up speed. It is an elaboration of the Grossman original opendata post and mashes a bit of code for Tal G (replacing Revo's package for making the connection) http://decisionstats.com/2010/09/27/running-a-r-guiand-parallel-programming-on-amazon-ec2/ or if you like to use Revo's packages or find it difficult to go just commado line - run Ec2 on Windows (and I havent managed the Ubuntu port yet- though EC2 does have REL instances. http://decisionstats.com/2010/10/02/running-r-on-amazon-ec2-windows/ An additional point is Amazon Micro instances are free for a year- for linux but limited to 600~ mb RAM and you probably need to use the small (>2 processor instance) to sandbox Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, erik <handywu...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > who of you in this forum uses R (http://www.r-project.org/) with the > multicore, SNOW or CUDA packages, so for advanced calculations that need > more power than a workstation CPU? On which hardware do you compute these > scripts? At home/ at work or do you have data center access somewhere? > > The background of these questions is the following: I am currently writing > my M.Sc. thesis about R and High-Performance-Computing and need a strong > knowledge about who actually uses R. I read that R had 1 million users in > 2008, bu thats more or less the only user statistics I could find on this > topic - so I hope for your answers! > > Sincerely Heinrich > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Who-uses-R-with-multicore-SNOW-or-CUDA-package-for-resource-intense-computing-tp3044485p3044485.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
