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R does have quite a bit of financial libraries, yet I don't remember R has any good support on parallel computing, hmm?
by piggybox 16y ago
R does have quite a bit of financial libraries, yet I don't remember R has any good support on parallel computing, hmm?
- chink 16y agoTrue, but Matlab has good support for distributed computing. It's even possible to do this on an EC2 cluster. Pretty impressive really: http://www.mathworks.com/programs/techkits/ec2_paper.html http://www.mathworks.com/programs/techkits/ec2_paper.html edit: Cleaned up my bad grammar.
- mfredrickson 16y agoThere is the multicore package: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multicore/index.html http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/multicore/index.html My worry with parallel loops in R would be inadvertent race conditions. For example, is the random number generator in R thread safe? I doubt it.