Thanks all for the reply. I think I need to think of other ways to approach the problem. Hanna
2016-01-24 17:45 GMT-05:00 William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com>: > > 28 PiB. Storing such a large matrix even on file is not possible. > > The ads for Amazon Red Shift say it is possible. E.g., > Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data > warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze > all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. > Start small for $0.25 per hour with no commitments and scale > to petabytes for $1,000 per terabyte per year, less than a tenth > the cost of traditional solutions. Customers typically see 3x > compression, reducing their costs to $333 per uncompressed > terabyte per year. > > Cost may be an issue: > > 28 petabytes * 1024 petabytes/terabyte * $333 terabyte/year ~= $9.5 > million/year > or $26 thousand/day. > > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Henrik Bengtsson < > henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> FYI, the matrix you tried to allocate would hold >> (3195*1290*495*35*35*35*15) * 3 = 3.936248e+15 values. Each value >> would occupy 8 bytes of memory (for the double data type). In other >> words, in order to keep this data matrix in memory you would require a >> computer with at least 3.148998e+16 bytes of RAM, i.e. 29327331 GiB = >> 28640 TiB = 28 PiB. Storing such a large matrix even on file is not >> possible. >> >> In other words, you need to figure out how to approach your original >> problem in a different way. >> >> /Henrik >> >> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:46 AM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > I am doing some calculation with very large dimension. I need to >> create a >> > matrix >> > with three columns and a very large number of rows >> > (3195*1290*495*35*35*35*15=1.312083e+15) i >> > n order to allocate calculation result from a for loop. >> > R does not allow me to create such a matrix because of the large >> dimension >> > (see below). Is there a way to go around this? >> > Thanks very much!! >> > Hanna >> > >> > >> >> matrix(0, 3195*1290*495*35*35*35*15, 3) >> > Error in matrix(0, 3195 * 1290 * 495 * 35 * 35 * 35 * 15, 3) : >> > invalid 'nrow' value (too large or NA) >> > In addition: Warning message: >> > In matrix(0, 3195 * 1290 * 495 * 35 * 35 * 35 * 15, 3) : >> > NAs introduced by coercion >> >> >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.