DO NOT USE FOR SNOW ANIMATION.The R package SNOW (acronym for Simple Network Of Workstations) provides a high-level interface for using a cluster of workstations for parallel computations. Use with the [r] tag.
The package snow (acronym for Simple Network Of Workstations) provides a high-level interface for using a cluster of workstations for parallel computations in R.
snow implements an interface to three different low-level mechanisms for creating a virtual connection between processes:
- Socket
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- MPI (Message Passing Interface)
The snowfall package provides a more recent alternative to snow. Functions can be used in sequential or parallel mode.
Resources:
- CRAN summary page
- Rossini, Anthony; Tierney, Luke; and Li, Na, Simple Parallel Statistical Computing in R (March 2003). UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 193.
