I use R on a dual Opteron running SuSE Enterprise version 8 (amd-64). It compiles without complaint using gcc-3.3 (64bit)---all of the tests are successful and my personal test code performs well. The performance is rather good. I could NOT get R to compile using the Portland Group compilers.
Doing realistic benchmarks is very hard. But in production the machine is *much* nicer to work with than any Intel machine I've worked on (for a similar price---i.e., excluding Itaniums). The Opteron is made to be a server chip and this really shows in server related tasks, such as multiple processes and process which require a lot of RAM or do a lot of I/O. Cheers, Jas. ====================================== Jasjeet S. Sekhon Assistant Professor Harvard University Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jsekhon.fas.harvard.edu/ Office: 617.496.2426 Fax: 617.496.5149 ====================================== >Dear R-help: > >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. > >Best, >Andy > >Andy Liaw, PhD >Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 >Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 >mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com <mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com> >732-594-0820 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
