On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Kenneth Cabrera wrote: > Hi R users: > > In your opinion and experience, which hardware configuration > is the best to run R over LINUX ? > > With "best" I mean best performance, > and also cheapest. (about U$ 2.000 the whole basic system: > mother board+CPUs+RAM+HD)
I presume you don't need a display or keyboard .... Well, prices depend on where you are and the quality of components, e.g. power supplies. But as I am just buying a new system I have some idea. I would suggest an Athlon 64 X2 would be a good choice: that's a 64-bit system with de facto two processors which can be bought here with 2Gb RAM at well under your price. > By the way, which LINUX distribution is the best to > run R with high computing technics (simulation, bayesian, etc) and huge data > base? > and in combination with what kind of (cheap) hardware? They are all based on the same components: a distribution is just the packaging and installation tools. For performance it seems that systems based on gcc3 rather than gcc4 still have a small edge, but I would say local expertise is far more important. (At one point in the committee for a large procurement I pointed out that a 10% difference between two systems was 2.5 months' of Moore's Law, and that covered the spread of benchmark results for all the contenders. So if you want better performance, just wait a few months.) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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