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

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

[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? Than