[R] R on Linux/Opteron?

[Jasjeet S. Sekhon]

I use R on a dual Opteron running SuSE Enterprise version 8 (amd-64).
It compiles without complaint using gcc-3.3 (64bit)---all of the tests
are successful and my personal test code performs well.  The
performance is rather good.  I could NOT get R to compile using the
Portland Group compilers.

Doing realistic benchmarks is very hard.  But in production the
machine is *much* nicer to work with than any Intel machine I've
worked on (for a similar price---i.e., excluding Itaniums).  The
Opteron is made to be a server chip and this really shows in server
related tasks, such as multiple processes and process which require a
lot of RAM or do a lot of I/O.

Cheers,
Jas.

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Jasjeet S. Sekhon
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Center for Basic Research in the 
  Social Sciences
jsekhon at fas.harvard.edu
http://jsekhon.fas.harvard.edu/
Office: 617.496.2426 Fax: 617.496.5149
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>Dear R-help:
>
>Has anyone tried using R on the the AMD Opteron in either 64- or 32-bit
>mode?  If so, any good/bad experiences, comments, etc?  We are considering
>getting this hardware, and would like to know if R can run smoothly on such
>a beast.  Any comment much appreciated.
>
>Best,
>Andy
>
>Andy Liaw, PhD
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