OStatic

As we noted in this post, one of the open source-focused companies that made a big splash at the recent OSCON conference was REvolution Computing. The company champions the use of R, an open source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is used by many researchers when parallel processing of statistical data can help sift and analyze large amounts of information. We discussed what it's capable of at length in this post,?and here are some of the new directions REvolution Computing and R are going in.

Earlier this year, we covered R, a surprisingly robust open source statistical language. Revolution Computing has just announced that it is integrating its RPro commercially supported distribution of R into Microsoft's Windows HPC Server 2008, which is focused on clusters. A module within RPro, called ParallelR, enables cluster computing. Will this make high-performance computers and applications easier to deploy?