Speaker
Dr
Sirkiä Seija
(Centre fo Scientific Computing - CSC, Finland)
Description
This lecture is aimed at R users with very limited or no experience in parallel computing. You will learn how and when taking advantage of parallel computing can help you run your R scripts in less time, when not, and how to tell the difference. More importantly, you will get an idea of how to approach parallelising your task in practice.
We will consider Intel Math kernel library (MKL) together with Microsoft R Open, and R packages snow and foreach, both used as backend by various Bioconductor and CRAN packages. Lecture will include live coding demos.
Prerequisites: experience in using R for data analysis in research