2008/6/13 Qiu Wang <<a href="mailto:wangqiu04@gmail.com">wangqiu04@gmail.com</a>>: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, GLLUG-ers Hope you are enjoy the nice summer! My name is Qiu Wang and I am a student at MSU. I just started using linux system last week and I love it. Currently, I am using <a href="http://www.r-project.org/about.html" target="_blank">a open source /GNU statistical package R</a> for my project. Is anyone using <a href="http://www.r-project.org/" target="_blank">R</a> for parallel computation on a linux cluster (e.g., msu's HPC)? I was told that someone once gave a talk  on R to GLLUG 2-3 yeas ago. Does any one know if that talk touched parallel compuation? People at HPC (especically, Ed) are very supportive and will update R and install required packages (e.g., <a href="http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/" target="_blank">Rmpi</a> ). I really appreciated their help and would like to hear some user-side expereince from this list. Here is another issue the list might be interested with. I just got a quad dell inspiron desktop and started to use ubuntu. Oh, it is such a chellenge,  huge for me, but I had some fun. One thing I need to figure out is to run R on all 4 processors on a single machine. Right now it only uses one precessor (R randomly picks one of  the four CPUs to run the code. ). It is a waste. I found that running R on a multiprocessor single machine <a href="http://macresearch.org/statistics_supercomputing_on_a_mac_with_r_and_lam_mpi" target="_blank">has been done on a quad-Mac  </a>. How can it be done on my Dell quad machine? I have no clue where I should start. Any thoughts and ideas will be appreiciated. -- Qiu Wang Measurement and Quantitative Methods College of Education Michigan State University ------ _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div> Is the program R similar to SAS statistical software? -- Ross