Re: [R] Dual Core vs Quad Core
Hiding in the windows faq is the observation that R's computation is single-threaded, and so it cannot use more than one CPU. So multi-core should make no difference other than allowing R to run with less interruption from other tasks. That is often a significant advantage, though. Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/12/2007 01:13 On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Kitty Lee wrote: Dear R-users, I use R to run spatial stuff and it takes up a lot of ram. Runs can take hours or days. I am thinking of getting a new desktop. Can R take advantage of the dual-core system? I have a dual-core computer at work. But it seems that right now R is using only one processor. The new computers feature quad core with 3GB of RAM. Can R take advantage of the 4 chips? Or am I better off getting a dual core with faster processing speed per chip? Thanks! Any advice would be really appreciated! K. If I have my information right, R will use dual- or quad-cores if it's doing two (or four) things at once. The second core will help a little bit insofar as whatever else your machine is doing won't interfere with the one core on which it's running, but generally things that take a single thread will remain on a single core. As for RAM, if you're doing memory-bound work you should certainly be using a 64-bit machine and OS so you can utilize the larger memory space. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA __ 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. __ 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.
[R] Dual Core vs Quad Core
Dear R-users, I use R to run spatial stuff and it takes up a lot of ram. Runs can take hours or days. I am thinking of getting a new desktop. Can R take advantage of the dual-core system? I have a dual-core computer at work. But it seems that right now R is using only one processor. The new computers feature quad core with 3GB of RAM. Can R take advantage of the 4 chips? Or am I better off getting a dual core with faster processing speed per chip? Thanks! Any advice would be really appreciated! K. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] Dual Core vs Quad Core
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Kitty Lee wrote: Dear R-users, I use R to run spatial stuff and it takes up a lot of ram. Runs can take hours or days. I am thinking of getting a new desktop. Can R take advantage of the dual-core system? I have a dual-core computer at work. But it seems that right now R is using only one processor. The new computers feature quad core with 3GB of RAM. Can R take advantage of the 4 chips? Or am I better off getting a dual core with faster processing speed per chip? Thanks! Any advice would be really appreciated! K. If I have my information right, R will use dual- or quad-cores if it's doing two (or four) things at once. The second core will help a little bit insofar as whatever else your machine is doing won't interfere with the one core on which it's running, but generally things that take a single thread will remain on a single core. As for RAM, if you're doing memory-bound work you should certainly be using a 64-bit machine and OS so you can utilize the larger memory space. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA __ 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.
Re: [R] Dual Core vs Quad Core
I ran a bayesian simulation sometime ago and it took me 1 week to finish on a debian box (Dell PE 2850 Dual Intel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6GB). I think it depends on the setting of the experiment and whether the code can be parallelized. Simon Blomberg wrote: I've been running R on a quad-core using Debian Gnu/Linux since March this year, and I am very pleased with the performance. Simon. On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 20:13 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Kitty Lee wrote: Dear R-users, I use R to run spatial stuff and it takes up a lot of ram. Runs can take hours or days. I am thinking of getting a new desktop. Can R take advantage of the dual-core system? I have a dual-core computer at work. But it seems that right now R is using only one processor. The new computers feature quad core with 3GB of RAM. Can R take advantage of the 4 chips? Or am I better off getting a dual core with faster processing speed per chip? Thanks! Any advice would be really appreciated! K. If I have my information right, R will use dual- or quad-cores if it's doing two (or four) things at once. The second core will help a little bit insofar as whatever else your machine is doing won't interfere with the one core on which it's running, but generally things that take a single thread will remain on a single core. As for RAM, if you're doing memory-bound work you should certainly be using a 64-bit machine and OS so you can utilize the larger memory space. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA __ 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. __ 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.
