R help - Aug 2004 - Does anybody runs R on the hp ML 370 or ML570 servers?

Dear all.
 
I am trying to buy a hp server to run R and to complete some other tasks
with limited bugets.  The r-project.org site recommended that R will run on
hppa-hp-hpux.  However this system is out of our buget and ML system from hp
is much cheaper.  Is there anybody running R on ML370 or ML 570 systems?  If
you can provide me with some other information related that will be
appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Aiguo

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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Li, Aiguo (NIH/NCI) wrote:
> I am trying to buy a hp server to run R and to complete some other tasks
> with limited bugets.  The r-project.org site recommended that R will run on
> hppa-hp-hpux.  
I don't think they are _recommended_ there.
> However this system is out of our buget and ML system from hp
> is much cheaper.  Is there anybody running R on ML370 or ML 570 systems? 
If
> you can provide me with some other information related that will be
> appreciated.
Those are just Xeon processors in a standard Wintel box.  What OS?
(They run Linux, Solaris, SCO Unix, Windows ....)

-- 
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

> From: Prof Brian Ripley
> 
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Li, Aiguo (NIH/NCI) wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to buy a hp server to run R and to complete 
> some other tasks
> > with limited bugets.  The r-project.org site recommended 
> that R will run on
> > hppa-hp-hpux.  
> 
> I don't think they are _recommended_ there.
> 
> > However this system is out of our buget and ML system from hp
> > is much cheaper.  Is there anybody running R on ML370 or ML 
> 570 systems?  If
> > you can provide me with some other information related that will be
> > appreciated.
> 
> Those are just Xeon processors in a standard Wintel box.  What OS?
> (They run Linux, Solaris, SCO Unix, Windows ....)
I believe one of ours is a ML530 (dual Xeon 2.4 GHz).  We've been putting
Mandrake on it (currently 9.0; have not had a chance to upgrade yet).  Had
no problem running/compiling R at all.

For a limited budget, IMHO these are hardly a good choice.  We got our first
dual Opterons with twice the RAM (but IDE instead of SCSI HDD) at around the
same price as the Compaq/HP, and that Opteron-based box will run rings
around the Compaq.

Andy

 
> -- 
> 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
> 
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