Mar
15
2012
A No BS Guide to the Basics of Parallelization in R
What is parallelization?Parallelization is using multiple processing cores to, hopefully, make your programs run faster than serial code, which is the use of just one processing core.
Parallel code is not always faster than its serial counterpart (but if you're doing it right and you're careful about what you parallelize, it will be --- remember, that's your goal here). Don't rush to parallelize Read more >>