Hi,
Last year our systems group tried to install R on an IBM
p5-570 machine (16 nodes, 256 GB shared RAM), running AIX 5.3. They
ran into all sorts of difficulties and finally gave up.
I am interested in trying again (and working with an IBM support
group if necessary), but before embarking on this odyssey I was
wondering if anyone on this list has ever successfully run
R on a similar architecture/AIX OS? If so, is there any
kind of cribsheet or other underground documentation that we could
consult to get around any AIX peculiarities?
Given IBM's long-term interest in the Life Sciences, it seems hard to
believe that R would not be supported on this platform, but
that is what we heard through the grapevine.
Thanks for any thoughts/help with this.
- Susan
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Susan R. Atlas
Research Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Director, Cancer Research and Treatment Center Shared Resource for
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Department of Physics & Astronomy
MSC07 4220 p: 505.277.1509
1 University of New Mexico e: susie at sapphire.phys.unm.edu
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 n: www.phys.unm.edu/CompMaterials
On 2/14/08, Susan R. Atlas <susie at sapphire.phys.unm.edu> wrote:> Hi, > Last year our systems group tried to install R on an IBM > p5-570 machine (16 nodes, 256 GB shared RAM), running AIX 5.3. They > ran into all sorts of difficulties and finally gave up. > I am interested in trying again (and working with an IBM support > group if necessary), but before embarking on this odyssey I was > wondering if anyone on this list has ever successfully run > R on a similar architecture/AIX OS? If so, is there any > kind of cribsheet or other underground documentation that we could > consult to get around any AIX peculiarities?Have you read the "R Installation and Administration" manual? [1] It has a couple of paragraphs on AIX and suggests that installing R should be possible at least on AIX 5.x 'powerpc'. -Deepayan [1] http://cran.us.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
A few people have reported success on AIX 5.2, and their experiences are in the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'. At least one of those people has reported success on AIX 5.3 as well. Of course, we tend only to hear about failures. On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Susan R. Atlas wrote:> Hi, > Last year our systems group tried to install R on an IBM > p5-570 machine (16 nodes, 256 GB shared RAM), running AIX 5.3. They > ran into all sorts of difficulties and finally gave up. > I am interested in trying again (and working with an IBM support > group if necessary), but before embarking on this odyssey I was > wondering if anyone on this list has ever successfully run > R on a similar architecture/AIX OS? If so, is there any > kind of cribsheet or other underground documentation that we could > consult to get around any AIX peculiarities? > Given IBM's long-term interest in the Life Sciences, it seems hard to > believe that R would not be supported on this platform, but > that is what we heard through the grapevine. > Thanks for any thoughts/help with this. > - Susan > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Susan R. Atlas > Research Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy > Director, Cancer Research and Treatment Center Shared Resource for > Bioinformatics and Computational Biology > > Department of Physics & Astronomy > MSC07 4220 p: 505.277.1509 > 1 University of New Mexico e: susie at sapphire.phys.unm.edu > Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 n: www.phys.unm.edu/CompMaterials > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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