Parallel R
Author | : Ethan McCallum |
Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2011-10-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781449309923 |
ISBN-13 | : 1449309925 |
Rating | : 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Download or read book Parallel R written by Ethan McCallum and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R is a wonderful thing, indeed: in recent years this free, open-source product has become a popular toolkit for statistical analysis and programming. Two of R's limitations -- that it is single-threaded and memory-bound -- become especially troublesome in the current era of large-scale data analysis. It's possible to break past these boundaries by putting R on the parallel path. Parallel R will describe how to give R parallel muscle. Coverage will include stalwarts such as snow and multicore, and also newer techniques such as Hadoop and Amazon's cloud computing platform.