Hi, I am planning to buy a new PC for computing simulations in R under Linux. I was searching the web/mailing list-archives for useful hints about the "optimal" choice of hardware - surprisingly I found no recent topics.
As far as I know, R doesn't use threads, so I think that there should be no benefit in choosing a dual-processor machine. So the remaining affordable choices seems to be Athlon XP, Pentium 4, Xeon or Athlon64/Opteron. Are there any R-related benchmarks or should one simply look about the "standard" benchmark-results (SPEC, etc.)? Any hints or experiences would be appreciated! Thanks in advance, Amit ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
