"Jon Dressel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are currently running R under Windows 2000 on a server box > running with 2 1.2 GHZ Intel Pentium III Processors. We would like > to run this on a new computer running Linux and receive a > significant speed increase over our current implementation. Could > anyone provide some suggestions for a fast 64 BIT Intel based > processor computer with a recommendation for memory and > speed/type/number of processors. Also which version of R would > install "out-of-the-box" easily on this computer and what version of > Linux should be used? Thanks in advance for any help.
(I assume "Intel" also means AMD?) People seem quite happy with dual and quad Opterons (and there are dual-core chips coming up soon, I hear), but you do need to do your homework, since there have been trouble with some chipsets/BIOSes in large-memory configurations, and there are not all that many people using the high-end stuff. Check out the archives of the x86_64 mailing lists for the popular Linux distributions. Distribution-wise Fedora Core and SuSE both work nicely and R has been tested on both with no issues that I can think of. There's an RPM up for FC3, but it's not a big hassle to build from source and you need most of the build tools in place to install CRAN packages anyway. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html