Gridget > High-performance computing in R at useR! 2008

 [Mario's Entangled Bank] I have been using R on our in-house cluster for a few years now, and although it may sound a bit counterintuitive to run a high-level interpreted language such as R in a high-performance computing environment such as a cluster (most people would use a low-level compiled language like C for example), using R has the big advantage of allowing very fast prototyping. In other words, although the R code runs slower on the cluster than native C code would do it takes much less time to code it.