[R] R on AMD64 (Opteron)

[Jose Quesada]

Also, I'm curious...
Not that this would be my first choice for a server, but...
Anyone running Windows XP 64-Bit Edition? Any success compiling R?



On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:07:18 +1000, Andrew Robinson <andrewr at uidaho.edu> wrote:
> 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
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Jose Quesada, PhD.
 
jquesada at andrew.cmu.edu		Research associate
http://lsa.colorado.edu/~quesadaj	Dept. of Social and Decision Sciences
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~jquesada	Carnegie Mellon University
Porter Hall	Phone: 412 268 6011
office PH208-J	Fax:   412 268 6938
5000 Forbes ave.
15213, Pittsburgh, PA