A platform for parallel R-based analytics on cloud infrastructure

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 188-193

  Patel, Ishan ^a   Rau Chaplin, Andrew ^a   Varghese, Blesson ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amazon Cloud Services; Cloud computing; Parallel Analytics; R and Snow

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SERVICES; COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING; EXPERIMENT CONFIRM; PARALLEL ANALYTICS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

EID: 84871163787     PISSN: 15302016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPPW.2012.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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