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Separate installation of this MKL version is required only in Windows and Linux PCs and not in Mac as Mac has Intel's "Mac Accelerated Network", which inherently makes it suitable. MKL is a different library and it's compatible MS R is downloaded from. The usual Microsoft R version is just as good as CRAN R and that's why perhaps the time for computations were slightly different. Microsoft R is build on CRAN R, which can be simply understood as (MS R = CRAN R + MKL) where MKL is a performance improvement library by Intel. I did prepare a small report on this once, and quoting herewith: With regard to your second question, I used MRAN R (which adds parallel processing by default). I don't know what you use R for but if you use for anything distantly related to matrices, it will make a difference. To test this, I tried several Cholesky decompositions with and without. Most importantly, it matters if you are doing any computations that involve matrices. Some parallel backends try to make this as painless as possible (e.g., future will look at the objects and libraries NEEDED for the work to be done, and automatically send those to the new processes foreach + doParallel will do something similar). Unix-likes share memory, and the libraries are effectively loaded once. Windows will require having multiple R processes, each with libraries and objects loaded into them, each in their own memory mappings. That's why it's "easier" on unix-likes, and there's less overhead. That isn't true when using forking threads/processes. Anything you do in your main process to permit the computation to be done (libraries, creating objects, etc) needs to be done on the workers, or you have to send them what they need to do the work before sending off the job. You have to 'set up' each parallel worker before the job can be done, because it's basically a new R session in each process. You may have to basically say "on all new threads, load these libraries, execute these commands, and take these objects", then the parallel package splits the job across these threads. Because the processes don't inherit the environment, you have to send commands and objects to those processes. Basically, on windows, it spins up new R processes, and you send jobs off to those processes. This is what multicore does, and is default for parallel on unix-likes.įor R to parallelize on windows, it needs to create new threads these threads do *not* inherit the process environment. Windows, iirc, does not.įor R to parallelize on unix-likes, it can just fork the process, inheriting everything from the current process. The reason is that unix-likes (apple, linux, bsd, others), have forking processes.
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