[R] 64-bit R on Intel Xeon EM64T running fine

[Roger D. Peng]

This is good news.  As far as I know R has built for quite some time 
now on a number of 64 bit platforms (Linux on AMD Opteron/Athlon64, 
Solaris/Sparc) but I can't recall seeing a build on Intel with the 64 
bit extensions.  By the way, did you happen to run `make check' just 
for kicks?

-roger

Michael Seewald wrote:
> Dear mailing-list members,
> 
> In the days of cheap RAM and microarray applications feasting on memory,
> 64-bit computers become more and more useful - to actually make use of memory
> beyond the magic 4GB border. I would like to report the success of running
> 64-bit R on an Intel Xeon EM64T machine under Linux. Just like on an AMD
> Opteron, R v2.0.0 compiles fine (and out of the box) and is happily allocating
> memory until RAM and swap reach their limit.
> 
> Hardware:
> - HP xw6200 workstation
> - dual Intel Xeon 3.4GHz with hyper-threading enabled
> - 4GB RAM, 4GB swap
> 
> System: either
> - Fedora Core 2 x86_64 bit Linux
> or
> - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3.0 x86_64 bit
> 
> R:
> - v2.0.0
> 
> Really, no problems at all during setup, a big thank you to the R developers
> making this possible!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Michael
> 
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