We've been running servers with AMD Opterons (both duals and 4-ways) using SuSE SLES 8 and Fedora Core 2 and 3 (64 bit). All work well and R can access up to ~15GB of RAM on our 4-way machine (which has 16GB installed). One of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions comes with a buggy compiler but I can't remember which version (there is some discussion on the R-devel mailing list archives). Watch out for that. I think using gcc 3.4.x solves that problem.
R pretty much compiles out of the box on AMD Opteron/Fedora Core 3 (64-bit) Linux. We've been very happy with our R experience so far.
-roger
Jon Dressel wrote:
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.
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