On 18 July 2013 at 18:03, Elizabeth Tighe wrote:
| 
| So I have two Dell power-edge machines running latest Ubuntu (13.04) 
| with latest version of R (3.01).  I installed revolution-mkl on one 
| machine (T-410) and it works fine.  On the second machine (T-620), it 
| says the latest version of revolution-mkl is installed, but I'm getting 
| no multi-processor functioning (R-benchmark-25.R) runs on a single 
| processor and takes same amount of time before and after installing.
| 
| Both machines I've installed using simple sudo apt-get install r-base 
| r-base-dev and same for revolution-mkl

The revo-mkl package is stale. It was a one-off; its 'closed source but
freely distributed' annoyed a lot of people, and Revo no longer cares about
Ubuntu (or Debian).
 
| Anyone have any tips for debugging, figuring out why it's not working on 
| the second machine?  Is there a way to get R to find the mkl libraries 
| without reinstalling from scratch from source code?
| 
| Any insights anyone out there might have would be appreciated!

Just install libopenblas-dev --- it is also multithreaded, but open source
and under development (as a successor to the not-really-open-source GotoBLAS).

Dirk

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Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com

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