Mike Croucher
EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow
www.walkingrandomly.com@walkingrandomly
M.Croucher@Sheffield.ac.uk
http://rse.shef.ac.uk/
___ and R
How R relates to other technologies
Mathematica and R
Mathematica is a powerful commercial computational system with strong computer algebra support and a notebook interface.
Mathematica demo
Video on R + Mathematica
Mathematica training
October 11th - http://rse.shef.ac.uk/training/Intel and R
Intel Compiler
Very fast C++ compiler
http://www.polyhedron.com/web_images//intel/productbriefs/Intel-Parallel-StudioXE-2016.pdf
Intel Compiler
Potentially faster packages that make use of Rcpp
University of Lancaster: 2x speed up in one in-house case
I'm looking for other examples
Intel Math Kernel Library
An implementation of BLAS/LAPCK and FFT
Linear algrebra etc
Fastest available
Intel at Sheffield
Accelerated R on Iceberg - http://rse.shef.ac.uk/blog/intel-R-iceberg/
Get Compiler + MKL for your machine - https://cics.dept.shef.ac.uk/software/
Maple and R
Maple can generate R code from Maple expressions.
NAG Library and R
You can use NAG Library routines in R programs.
Microsoft and R
R Tools for Visual Studio Links
Microsoft maintain an enhanced version of R
Microsoft maintain a snapshotted CRAN with time machine
Microsoft let you run R-enabled notebooks in the cloud
For free!
Jupyter notebooks in Azure
NVIDIA and R
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
GPU Video
Program them in CUDA
Spark and R
Spark and R
- Thousands of CPU cores
- Terabytes of memory
Why am I telling you this?
Proposal
R technologies day