Since the multicore architecture has become very basic to almost all types of personal computers and powerful enough to do the same jobs as cluster architecture, in particular, there are a couple of R Packages that have provided parallel computing for both cluster and multicore architectures, I wonder whether there is any future development for Maanova to use multicore machine for parallel computing for which I would say that it will dramatically increase the use of Maanova in microarray data analyses. Thanks Ric Hux -- output of sessionInfo(): -- Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org.