I'm testing out the parLapplyLB() function to understand what it does to balance a load. But I'm not seeing any balancing happening. For example, cl <- parallel::makeCluster(2) system.time( p...

What is the difference between cluster and cores in registerDoParallel when using doParallel package? Is my understanding correct that on single machine these are interchangeable and I will get sa...

The below code produces different results on Windows and Ubuntu platforms. I understand it is because of the different methods of handling parallel processing. Summarizing: I cannot insert / rbin...

I use R to do parallel computing. Every time, when I want to kill the parallel program, I always use kill 2130 2131 6456(PID). Is there a way to kill all the programs of R?

I need to run thousands* of models on 15 machines (each of 4 cores), all Windows. I started to learn parallel, snow and snowfall packages and read a bunch of intro's, but they mainly focus on the s...

I tried to google "r package parallel" but I have not found it on CRAN. I also tried the following links, but they do not work: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/parallel/index.html http://c...