"Roger D. Peng" wrote: > > This is good news. As far as I know R has built for quite some time > now on a number of 64 bit platforms (Linux on AMD Opteron/Athlon64, > Solaris/Sparc)
I"ll add SGI/IRIX 64 bit platform to the list. I've been running a 64 bit-compiled R on an SGI octane 2 for over a year now without a problem. R sessions often allocate around 8 GB of memory. >but I can't recall seeing a build on Intel with the 64 > bit extensions. By the way, did you happen to run `make check' just > for kicks? > > -roger > > Michael Seewald wrote: > > Dear mailing-list members, > > > > In the days of cheap RAM and microarray applications feasting on memory, > > 64-bit computers become more and more useful - to actually make use of memory > > beyond the magic 4GB border. I would like to report the success of running > > 64-bit R on an Intel Xeon EM64T machine under Linux. Just like on an AMD > > Opteron, R v2.0.0 compiles fine (and out of the box) and is happily allocating > > memory until RAM and swap reach their limit. > > > > Hardware: > > - HP xw6200 workstation > > - dual Intel Xeon 3.4GHz with hyper-threading enabled > > - 4GB RAM, 4GB swap > > > > System: either > > - Fedora Core 2 x86_64 bit Linux > > or > > - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3.0 x86_64 bit > > > > R: > > - v2.0.0 > > > > Really, no problems at all during setup, a big thank you to the R developers > > making this possible! > > > > Best wishes, > > Michael > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://stat.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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Murad Nayal M.D. Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University 630 West 168th Street. New York, NY 10032 Tel: 212-305-6884 Fax: 212-305-6926 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html