Hi All, My group is looking for any suggestions on what to purchase to achieve the most powerful number crunching system that $50k can buy. The main application that will be used is R so input on what hardware benefits R most will be appreciated. The requirements are that it be a single standalone server (i.e. not a cluster solution), and it that must be able to run unix/linux. If anyone has any experience/ suggestions regarding the following questions that would also be greatly appreciated.
AMD vs Intel chips, especially 64-bit versions of the two? Using Itanium/Opterons and if so how much of a performance boost did you achieve vs other 64-bit chip sets? Also, does anyone know if there is an upper thresh hold on much memory R can use? Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions, Jia-Shing So Programmer Analyst Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Lab University of California, San Diego ______________________________________________ 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