Abstract
Theoretically, many modern statistical procedures are trivial to parallelize. However, practical deployment of a parallelized implementation which is robust and reliably runs on different computational cluster configurations and environments is far from trivial. We present a framework for the R statistical computing language that provides a simple yet powerful programming interface to a computational cluster. This interface allows the development of R functions that distribute independent computations across the nodes of the computational cluster. The resulting framework allows statisticians to obtain significant speed-ups for some computations at little additional development cost. The particular implementation can be deployed in heterogeneous computing environments.
Disciplines
Bioinformatics | Computational Biology | Numerical Analysis and Computation
Suggested Citation
Rossini, Anthony; Tierney, Luke; and Li, Na, "Simple Parallel Statistical Computing in R" (March 2003). UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 193.
https://biostats.bepress.com/uwbiostat/paper193
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