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