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Package Goals

Describe and discuss high-level goals here.

Design Considerations

Parallel Programming Paradigms to Support

SMP (Multicore)

Multimachine/Multicore

Multiple Machines/Multiple Users (Cluster/Grid)

Solutions Available

In R

• parallel package

  • Pros: ships with R
  • Cons: multiple APIs and API inconsistency, some limitations with current API

• foreach

  • Pros: pluggable backends
  • Cons: somewhat counter to the functional programming paradigm established by the *apply functions

In Other Languages

TODO

Use Cases

TODO: If there are use cases or timing results, consider putting them here.