| % File src/library/parallel/man/parallel-package.Rd |
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| % Copyright 2011-2016 R Core Team |
| % Distributed under GPL 2 or later |
| |
| \name{parallel-package} |
| \alias{parallel-package} |
| \alias{parallel} |
| \docType{package} |
| \title{ |
| Support for Parallel Computation |
| } |
| \description{ |
| Support for parallel computation, including random-number generation. |
| } |
| \details{ |
| This package was first included with \R 2.14.0 in 2011. |
| |
| There is support for multiple RNG streams with the |
| \samp{"L'Ecuyer-CMRG"} \link{RNG}: see \code{\link{nextRNGStream}}. |
| |
| It contains functionality derived from and pretty much equivalent to |
| that contained in packages \pkg{multicore} (formerly on |
| \acronym{CRAN}, with some low-level functions renamed and not |
| exported) and \CRANpkg{snow} (for socket clusters only, but MPI and |
| NWS clusters generated by \CRANpkg{snow} are also supported). There |
| have been many enhancements and bug fixes since 2011. |
| |
| This package also provides \code{\link{makeForkCluster}} to create |
| socket clusters by forking (not Windows). |
| |
| For a complete list of exported functions, use |
| \code{library(help = "parallel")}. |
| } |
| \author{ |
| Brian Ripley, Luke Tierney and Simon Urbanek |
| |
| Maintainer: R Core Team \email{R-core@r-project.org} |
| } |
| \seealso{ |
| Parallel computation involves launching worker processes: functions |
| \code{\link{psnice}} and \code{\link{pskill}} in package \pkg{tools} |
| provide means to manage such processes. |
| } |
| \keyword{ package } |