Costas, Take a look at this post that I found to be very helpful. The walkthrough is very easy to follow. http://psyccomputing.blogspot.com/2010/04/compiling-64-bit-r-2101-with-mkl-in.html
I'm not sure if the i7 is supported however you can always replace export FFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3" export CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3" export CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3" export FCFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3" with. . export FFLAGS="-march=native -O3" export CFLAGS="-march=native -O3" export CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O3" export FCFLAGS="-march=native -O3" Best, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Costas Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:42 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Intel i7 utilization Hello, Is there a way to force through R the amount of the cpu's cores (or the cpu's utilization level) used under Windows 7 or Linux? Thanks, Costas ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. The information transmitted is intended only for the per...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
