>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:17:48 +0100 (BST) writes:
BDR> Our `public' Opteron (dual 248, FC2 + Goto BLAS) is
BDR> right, as is Solaris 64-bit. FC2 is using gcc version
BDR> 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7), quite a lot
BDR> later.
BDR> I would try updating your compiler (to 3.4.1?) and
BDR> perhaps try a different BLAS.
I've now hand-compiled gcc 3.4.1 and recompiled R-patched and
R-devel both configured "--without-blas" and the eigen()
problem is gone.
For the record, note that before the problem appeared both for
"--with-blas=goto" and "--without-blas".
I've also added a regression test to R-devel which makes sure
that "make check" only passes when the mentioned eigen()
computation is correct.
Martin
BDR> We do have RHEL for Opteron, but AFAIK it is not on a
BDR> system at present. (There are others running SuSE
BDR> 9.0/.1, I believe.)
BDR> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> I'm only now realizing that we have severe problems with
>> R on our AMD 'Opteron' and 'Athlon64' clients running
>> Redhat Enterprise with all 64-bit libraries (AFAICS).
>>
>> The Lapack problem happens for R-patched and R-devel both
>> on the Opteron and the Athlon64.
>>
>> Here are platform details:
>>
>> o "gcc -v" and "g77 -v" both end with the line gcc
>> version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-34)
>>
>> o I've used ...../configure --without-blas
>>
>> 1) Opteron ("deb7", a dual-processor compute server):
>>
>> - uname -a : Linux deb7 2.4.21-9.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Apr
>> 20 19:44:29 EDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -
>> /proc/cpuinfo contains (among much more) vendor_id :
>> AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 5 model name : AMD
>> Opteron(tm) Processor 248
>>
>> 2) Athlon64 (a simple "new generation" client - to become
>> my desktop soon):
>>
>> - uname -a : Linux setup-12 2.4.21-15.0.2.EL #1 Wed Jun
>> 16 22:41:44 EDT 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> - /proc/cpuinfo contains vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu
>> family : 15 model : 14 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64
>> Processor 2800+
>>
>> ----------------
>>
>> Now the Lapack problem, easily seen from the base eigen()
>> example:
>>
>> > eigen(cbind(1, 3:1, 1:3)) $values [1] 5.7015621
>> 1.0000000 -0.7015621
>>
>> $vectors [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0.4877939 -0.7181217
>> -0.9576161 [2,] 0.6172751 -0.3893848 0.2036804 [3,]
>> 0.6172751 0.5767849 0.2036804
>>
>> which is simply plainly wrong and eigen(cbind(1, 3:1,
>> 1:3), EISPACK=TRUE) gives the correct eigen values c(5,
>> 1, 0) and corresponding eigenvectors.
>>
>> IIRC, we've already dealt with a Lapack problem, and that
>> workaround (built into R-devel's Makefiles) has been to
>> use -ffloat-store for the compilation of
>> src/modules/lapack/dlamc.f
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> Thank you for hints / suggestions.
>>
>> Others with 64-bit platforms might also try to see what
>> eigen(cbind(1, 3:1, 1:3)) gives there.
BDR> -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of
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