Re: [R] Snow Parallel R: makeCluster with more nodes than available

2009-03-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 March 2009 at 13:19, Uwe Ligges wrote: | | Ubuntu Diego wrote: | > Hi all, | > I would like to know what would happen if using snow I create a cluster | > of size 50, for example using makeCluster(50,type='SOCK') on a machine | > with 2 Cores and run a function. Does snow run 25 and 25

Re: [R] Snow Parallel R: makeCluster with more nodes than available

2009-03-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Ubuntu Diego wrote: Hi all, I would like to know what would happen if using snow I create a cluster of size 50, for example using makeCluster(50,type='SOCK') on a machine with 2 Cores and run a function. Does snow run 25 and 25 functions on each of my 2 "real" processors or it just run

[R] Snow Parallel R: makeCluster with more nodes than available

2009-03-26 Thread Ubuntu Diego
Hi all, I would like to know what would happen if using snow I create a cluster of size 50, for example using makeCluster(50,type='SOCK') on a machine with 2 Cores and run a function. Does snow run 25 and 25 functions on each of my 2 "real" processors or it just run 50 functions in one proc