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Implicit and Explicit Parallel Computing in R
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Implicit and Explicit Parallel Computing in R

Luke Tierney
COMPSTAT 2008, pp.43-51
Physica-Verlag HD
2008
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2084-3_4

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Abstract

This paper outlines two approaches to introducing parallel computing to the R statistical computing environment. The first approach is based on implicitly parallelizing basic R operations, such as vectorized arithmetic operations; this is suitable for taking advantage of multi-core processors with shared memory. The second approach is based on developing a small set of explicit parallel computation directives and is most useful in a distributed memory framework.
distributed memory parallel computing shared memory parallel computing vectorized arithmetic

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