We are currently running R under Windows 2000 on a server box running with 2 1.2 GHZ Intel Pentium III Processors. We would like to run this on a new computer running Linux and receive a significant speed increase over our current implementation. Could anyone provide some suggestions for a fast 64 BIT Intel based processor computer with a recommendation for memory and speed/type/number of processors. Also which version of R would install "out-of-the-box" easily on this computer and what version of Linux should be used? Thanks in advance for any help. Jon Dressel, MCSE MCSA MCP A+<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Applications Supervisor SurroMed, Inc. 1430 O'Brien Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: 650.470.2322 Fax: 650.470.2400 email: jdressel@surromed.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
"Jon Dressel" <jdressel at surromed.com> writes:> We are currently running R under Windows 2000 on a server box > running with 2 1.2 GHZ Intel Pentium III Processors. We would like > to run this on a new computer running Linux and receive a > significant speed increase over our current implementation. Could > anyone provide some suggestions for a fast 64 BIT Intel based > processor computer with a recommendation for memory and > speed/type/number of processors. Also which version of R would > install "out-of-the-box" easily on this computer and what version of > Linux should be used? Thanks in advance for any help.(I assume "Intel" also means AMD?) People seem quite happy with dual and quad Opterons (and there are dual-core chips coming up soon, I hear), but you do need to do your homework, since there have been trouble with some chipsets/BIOSes in large-memory configurations, and there are not all that many people using the high-end stuff. Check out the archives of the x86_64 mailing lists for the popular Linux distributions. Distribution-wise Fedora Core and SuSE both work nicely and R has been tested on both with no issues that I can think of. There's an RPM up for FC3, but it's not a big hassle to build from source and you need most of the build tools in place to install CRAN packages anyway. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
We've been running servers with AMD Opterons (both duals and 4-ways) using SuSE SLES 8 and Fedora Core 2 and 3 (64 bit). All work well and R can access up to ~15GB of RAM on our 4-way machine (which has 16GB installed). One of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions comes with a buggy compiler but I can't remember which version (there is some discussion on the R-devel mailing list archives). Watch out for that. I think using gcc 3.4.x solves that problem. R pretty much compiles out of the box on AMD Opteron/Fedora Core 3 (64-bit) Linux. We've been very happy with our R experience so far. -roger Jon Dressel wrote:> We are currently running R under Windows 2000 on a server box running with 2 > 1.2 GHZ Intel Pentium III Processors. We would like to run this on a new > computer running Linux and receive a significant speed increase over our > current implementation. Could anyone provide some suggestions for a fast 64 > BIT Intel based processor computer with a recommendation for memory and > speed/type/number of processors. Also which version of R would install > "out-of-the-box" easily on this computer and what version of Linux should be > used? Thanks in advance for any help. > > Jon Dressel, MCSE MCSA MCP A+<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns > "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> > > Applications Supervisor > > SurroMed, Inc. > > > 1430 O'Brien Drive > > > Menlo Park, CA 94025 > > Phone: 650.470.2322 > > Fax: 650.470.2400 > > email: jdressel at surromed.com > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the > posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >