> From: Brian Ripley > > The first thing to ascertain is that R will actually build on such a > machine -- there have been a lot of reports of failure on AIX, and no > recent reports of success.
According to our AIX sysadmin, R-1.9.1 actually compiles a lot more cleanly than R-1.8.1 and prior. I take it the recent reports of difficulties has to do with (possibly outdated) GCC. We have no problem with xlc/xlf. The trouble we're having is getting R to link against readline in 64-bit. Haven't figure out how to do that yet. Life w/o readline is rather trying... Andy > If it does, R itself is single-threaded (but can make use of > multi-threaded BLAS) but packages such as Rmpi, snow, > RScaLAPACK provide > parallel facilities (and are in the FAQ). > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Liao, Kexiao wrote: > > > Dear R Development Team, > > You actually wrote to R-help! > > > Does the latest version R-1.9.1 provide parallel > functions if R is > > running on Multiple CPUs Unix platform (IBM AIX e-server)? > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > > ______________________________________________ [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
