Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-31 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: I've been doing econometrics for nearly 20 years, and have not yet run across a situation that called for looking at a 1000 x 1000 matrix. I tend not to believe analyses with more than a dozen explanatory variables. In NIR spectroscopy, it is common to have at least

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Hallman
hui xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason why I would like to use ATLAS is that R FAQ said : The savings can be appreciable: on a 2.6GHz P4 and a 1000 x 1000 matrix svd took 16.2 sec with the standard BLAS and 7.8 sec with ATLAS. Because ATLAS is tuned to a particular chip we can't

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0400, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: saving 8 seconds of computation time is worth going through the ATLAS hassle? For some of us, the 'hassle' is typing $ sudo apt-get install atlas3-base which gives you the low-hanging fruit of basic Atlas. Locally

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas Bates
On 8/29/07, hui xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much for all your advice. To be clear, my OS is window XP. I bought this server last year. It's Dell Precision PWS690. THe processor is Xeon(TM) CPU 3GHZ, 2G RAM. I am not sure how to check more details of processor on my computer.

[R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-29 Thread hui xie
hi everyone: I have a Dell Server that has a Xeon processor, and I would like to use the best ATLAS posted in the R website. I find that R has ATLAS for core2duo and P4. I am not sure which one of these two is best suited for Xeon processor, or is that neither of these two is good and I should

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, hui xie wrote: hi everyone: I have a Dell Server that has a Xeon processor, and I would like to use the best ATLAS posted in the R website. I find that R has ATLAS for core2duo and P4. I am not sure which one of these two is best suited for Xeon processor, or is that

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, hui xie wrote: hi everyone: I have a Dell Server that has a Xeon processor, and I would like to use the best ATLAS posted in the R website. I find that R has ATLAS for core2duo and P4. I am not sure which one of these two is best suited for

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-29 Thread hui xie
Thanks very much for all your advice. To be clear, my OS is window XP. I bought this server last year. It's Dell Precision PWS690. THe processor is Xeon(TM) CPU 3GHZ, 2G RAM. I am not sure how to check more details of processor on my computer. But I went to Dell website and from what I can

Re: [R] xeon processor and ATLAS

2007-08-29 Thread Uwe Ligges
hui xie wrote: Thanks very much for all your advice. To be clear, my OS is window XP. I bought this server last year. It's Dell Precision PWS690. THe processor is Xeon(TM) CPU 3GHZ, 2G RAM. I am not sure how to check more details of processor on my computer. But I went to Dell website and