I see. So is it a good idea to use the snow package in running programs on my intel duo core computer?
2008/11/23 jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > R is single threaded except for some the BLAS matrix routines; it will > only effective use a single core most of the time unless you have a > problem that is making heavy use of matrix operations. > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Hesen Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My Dear R buddies, >> >> I'm feeling ashamed that I've been running my R program on some >> servers for a while but do not know exactly how R is working. The >> servers are chained together using Sun Grid Engine. Each node has 8 >> quad-core CPUs. I wonder how many cores and CPUs are used by a simple >> single-thread R program. Thanks a lot. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> -- >> 彭河森 Hesen Peng >> http://hesen.peng.googlepages.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. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > -- 彭河森 Hesen Peng http://hesen.peng.googlepages.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.
