Book

Mastering Parallel Programming with R

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

8h8m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for R programmers who want to step beyond its inherent single-threaded and restricted memory limitations and learn how to implement highly accelerated and scalable algorithms that are a necessity for the performant processing of Big Data. No previous knowledge of parallelism is required. This book also provides for the more advanced technical programmer seeking to go beyond high level parallel frameworks.

Book content

chapters 8h8m total length

Simple parallelism with R

Batch parallel processing with Hadoop

Using the Actian parallel data analysis framework

Communication in distributed R computation

Developing an R package for Supercomputers

Exploiting the supercomputer in your Laptop

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