Run Time Issues

Okay, I should say I mean this not quite in the normal programmer sort of way. I am worried running a reasonable number of simulations is going to take weeks of computing time on my poor three year old 2.2 GHz AMD Turion 64 laptop.

Part of me (the part which knows the software is single thread mathematics) wonders if I should just go find some 3.x Ghz Pentium 4 box with just enough hard drive and RAM to install Xubuntu and R and then simply run it on there expecting (yes, with massive power consumption) the kind of speed increase which would justify it.

On the other hand, it would be even better to run it on about ten machines in parrallel and then move all the individual datasets to one file. Too bad I’m not in college anymore and ergo don’t have free access to ten desktops for a weekend at a time.