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Using R and R Studio on RACC

The “parallel” library is used for parallel processing!

Uses an internal R dataset called MASS which has ‘Boston’ and ‘iris’ data.

This can be used in a batch script on the RACC.
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'R script for parallelising.

library(parallel)
library(MASS)

starts <- rep(100, 40)

fx <- function(nstart) kmeans(Boston, 4, nstart=nstart)
numCores <- detectCores()
numCores

system.time(
results <- lapply(starts, fx)
)

system.time(
results <- mclapply(starts, fx, mc.cores = numCores)
)

x <- iris[which(iris[,5] != "setosa"), c(1,5)]
trials <- seq(1, 10000)

boot_fx <- function(trial) {
ind <- sample(100, 100, replace=TRUE)
result1 <- glm(x[ind,2]~x[ind,1], family=binomial(logit))
r <- coefficients(result1)
res <- rbind(data.frame(), r)
}
system.time({
results <- mclapply(trials, boot_fx, mc.cores = numCores)
})

Output shows the processing speeds using the different libraries lapply and mclapply

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