Difference between “SOCK”, “PVM”, “MPI”, and “NWS” for the R SNOW package
问题 The makeCluster function for the SNOW package has the different cluster types of " SOCK ", " PVM ", " MPI ", and " NWS " but I'm not very clear on the differences among them, and more specifically which would be best for my program. Currently I have a queue of tasks of different length going into a load balancing cluster with clusterApplyLB and am using a 64bit 32-core Windows machine. I am looking for a brief description of the differences among the four cluster types, which would be best