[R] R on AMD64 (Opteron)

[Andrew Robinson]

Professor Ripley,

which operating system are you using for these servers, please?  
Thanks,

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2004 5:41 pm
Subject: Re: [R] R on AMD64 (Opteron)

> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Asselin Jerome wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone has had good experiences using R on 
> Linux with
> > dual AMD64 (Opteron) processors. I'm thinking of buying a couple 
> of such
> > servers, but I'd like to make sure R would work fine.
> > 
> > The "R Installation and Administration" guide notes that there 
> may be
> > some problems with BLAS libraries. That's all I could find about 
> R on
> > AMD64.
> 
> Actually it says with ATLAS BLAS, not generically.
> 
> > Please share your experience using R on AMD64.
> 
> Quite a few people, including us, are using R on such servers 
> routinelywith no problems at all.  There are still some issues 
> about how to squeeze 
> the maximum performance out of them (e.g. which BLAS to use -- we 
> are 
> using Goto's -- and which compiler to use, e.g. Portland Group or 
> Intel).
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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