On 6 Dec 2010, at 16:03, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > AFAICT R should not alter CPU affinity. So if I were you I'd swap the BLAS > implementation and try again. As you are on Ubuntu, you can try the MKL that > comes with the (now a littler older) Revolution R in Ubuntu 9.10; otherwise I > can highly recommend the GotoBLAS2 helper package listed in my paper for a > local GotoBLAS2 built. The script may be out of sync with the fairly recent > license change of GotoBLAS2 (to the more liberal BSD license permitting > redistribution). With some luck we will GotoBLAS2 deb packages in future > Debian and Ubuntu releases.
Thanks for the comments, Dirk. I take your point about ATLAS having the cores compiled in. I have replaced ATLAS with ACML, and all works fine. Cheers, Chris -- Dr Chris Jewell Department of Statistics University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL UK Tel: +44 (0)24 7615 0778 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
