[R] R or C++ on FreeNX servers

[Cedrick W. Johnson]

All FreeNX allows you to do is access a regular linux machine using X 
over SSH as opposed to ssh'ing in, redirecting the X-display back to 
your local machine (running a xserver locally)..

You can install R on the machine(s) just as you would normally, and if 
the machines are in some sort of clustered environment,  you could setup 
the packages specifically available on linux for R to do that (snow, 
multicore, etc...)

Check out FreeNX here http://freenx.berlios.de/

hth
-c

Murray Jorgensen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just found out that the machine learning group in our Faculty has
> a lot of spare capacity on their FreeNX servers. I do not know a lot
> about these beasts but I understand that they are a free version of
> something produced by a firm called "NoMachine".
>
> They are designed for executing parallel algorithms and I thought that
> they might be of use in a project of mine comparing different
> model-fitting algorithms from the point of view of sensitivity to
> starting values.
>
> Anyway before revealing my near-total ignorance to my computer science
> colleagues I thought I would ask if any of my fellow R users have any
> experience with these things and possibly advice to offer. The CS people
>  are probably using the servers in conjunction with Java or C++ and I
> could possibly use the latter of these. I wondered, though, if R could
> be used directly with such hardware and if so, how the parallelizing
> would be handled.
>
>
> Regards,   Murray Jorgensen
>