5.1 About Oracle R Enterprise on Exadata

Exadata is an ideal platform for Oracle R Enterprise.

The parallel resources of R computations in Oracle R Enterprise take advantage of the massively parallel grid infrastructure of Exadata.

To install Oracle R Enterprise on Exadata:

  1. On each node:

    • Install Oracle R Distribution

    • Verify and configure the environment

    • Install Oracle R Enterprise Server and the supporting packages

  2. On the first node only, create a user.

You can simplify the process of installing Oracle R Enterprise on Exadata by using the Distributed Command Line Interface (DCLI).