Re: [R] Hardwarefor R cpu 64 vs 32, dual vs quad

2008-09-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Nic, I'd buy a Mac Power server. Not that's much faster, but while one of the cores toils away at R you can play games on the others :-)-O el on 9/9/08 8:54 PM Henrik Bengtsson said the following: On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Nic Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need to buy fast computer

[R] Hardwarefor R cpu 64 vs 32, dual vs quad

2008-09-09 Thread Nic Larson
Need to buy fast computer for running R on. Today we use 2,8 MHz intel D cpu and the calculations takes around 15 days. Is it possible to get the same calculations down to minutes/hours by only changing the hardware? Should I go for an really fast dual 32 bit cpu and run R over linux or xp or go

Re: [R] Hardwarefor R cpu 64 vs 32, dual vs quad

2008-09-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Nic Larson wrote: Need to buy fast computer for running R on. Today we use 2,8 MHz intel D cpu and the calculations takes around 15 days. Is it possible to get the same calculations down to minutes/hours by only changing the hardware? No: you would need to arrange to

Re: [R] Hardwarefor R cpu 64 vs 32, dual vs quad

2008-09-09 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Nic Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need to buy fast computer for running R on. Today we use 2,8 MHz intel D cpu and the calculations takes around 15 days. Is it possible to get the same calculations down to minutes/hours by only changing the hardware? Should I