[R] Assigning cores

[Tom Woolman]

Hi Leslie and all.

You may want to investigate using SparklyR on a cloud environment like  
AWS, where you have more packages that are designed to work on cluster  
computing environments and you have more control over those types of  
parallel operations.


V/r,

Tom W.


Quoting Leslie Rutkowski <leslie.rutkowski using gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a large simulation and I'm using the doParallel package to
> parallelize my work. I have 20 cores on my machine and would like to
> preserve some for day-to-day activities - word processing, sending emails,
> etc.
>
> I started by saving 1 core and it was clear that *everything* was so slow
> as to be nearly unusable.
>
> Any suggestions on how many cores to hold back (e.g., not to put to work on
> the parallel process)?
>
> Thanks,
> Leslie
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