We've had good experience so far with the threaded Goto BLAS (on Opteron 244/248/250, SLES8).
Has anyone tried building R with supposedly more optimized compilers (PGI, EKO, etc.)? If so, how do they stack up against GCC? Best, Andy > From: Roger D. Peng > > I've built (and routinely use) 64 bit R on the following platforms: > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (AMD Opteron 848) > Fedora Core 2 x86_64 (AMD Athlon 64 3800+) > SuSE SLES 8 (AMD Opteron 248) > > One problem that has come up is that if you want to link R > with ATLAS, > you need to build shared ATLAS libraries (rather than static). This > requires some modifications to the configuation files for ATLAS. But > my experience shows that R itself builds out of the box on > these systems. > > -roger > > Vadim Ogranovich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are planning to buy a 64-bit Linux machine which will > mainly run R. > > There was an interesting thread on 64-bits on r-help back > in April that > > basically confirmed that the 64-bit R is fine as long as > the length of > > an atomic object is less than 2^31 - 1. > > > > My specific question is on which 64-bit Linux distros (SUSE > or RedHat) > > and processors R is *known* to build out-of-box and run > well. Ease of > > maintenance is essential here. We have RedHat 7.3 on other (32-bit) > > machines and would try not to proliferate the OS-s. > > > > > > Your information will be highly appreciated, > > > > Thanks, > > Vadim > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [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 > > > > -- > Roger D. > Peng > http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ > > ______________________________________________ > [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