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- iPython (on Amazon). Larsson says this allows parallelization in Python the same way we are trying to design into BigR. He says this is already set up to run using Star Cluster on Amazon.
- Revolution foreach (on Amazon). Chris Bare brings up a good point – have we explored if Revolution's foreach package can run on Amazon? I would think this is the first place they would implement it and likely someone has gotten it working? (Note: From http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2009/07/simple-scalable-parallel-computing-in-r.html "it also allows iterations of foreach loops to run on separate machines on a cluster, or in a cloud environment like Amazon EC2")
- Looks like there are tons of offerings for the R language: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html