This article might be of interest to some: http://www.linux-mag.com/2004-07/athlon_01.html
Regarding 64-bit build of R, I can confirm Irix, Alpha and AIX, although some w/o readline/jpeg/png/X support, partially because of difficulties linking against 64-bit version of those libraries. Best, Andy > From: Prof Brian Ripley > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, 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 > > and Alpha and Irix and HP-UX and AIX as far as I understand. > > ) but I can't recall seeing a build on Intel with the 64 > > bit extensions. > > As I understand it, this is an Intel `clone' of AMD64, so the only > news would be if there were any problems: in almost all cases the > executable code is identical to that compiled for AMD64 and in the GNU > classification it is also "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu". > > I would even expect a Goto BLAS to work, if not as well as on > the specific > Opteron it is tuned for. (Fast BLASes are an essential part > of making the > most of 64-bit processors on large problems.) > > > 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! > > -- > 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://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
