Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote: > > Has anyone tried using R on the the AMD Opteron in either 64- or 32-bit > > mode? If so, any good/bad experiences, comments, etc? We are considering > > getting this hardware, and would like to know if R can run smoothly on such > > a beast. Any comment much appreciated. > > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=r-base&arch=ia64&file=log > > has logs of R builds on ia64 since Nov 2001, incl. the outcome of make > check. We do not run the torture tests -- though I guess we could on some of > the beefier hardware such as ia64.
I don't think that's quite the same beast, though. Opterons are the "x86-64" (or amd64) architecture and ia64 is Intel's, aka Itanium. Debian appears to be just warming up to including this architecture: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x86-64/2003/debian-x86-64-200308/threads.html whereas they have had ia64 out for a while. SuSE has an Opteron option and Luke said he tried it. Apparently it has a functioning 64-bit compiler toolchain - I weren't sure earlier whether they were just running a 64bit kernel and 32bit applications, but when Luke says so, I believe it... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help