[R] Hardware Suggestions

[Roger D. Peng]

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.
> 
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