[BioC] Optimal workstation architecture for running R / Bioconductor

[Gunther Höning]

Dear list,

as I mentioned in my task before (Memory error while processing 35
Affymetrix cel files) I analyze a lot of data. My own processing steps after
bg-correction and normalization will (hopefully) improve the cel files I
have.
So I am looking for an suitable workstation configuration, e.g. 64bit
architecture, 16 GB RAM.... etc.

Does anyone have any experience with setting up such a system ?

Gunther