Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-07 Thread Simone Giannerini
Dear prof. Ripley, many thanks for the clarification, now I have good elements for managing the purchase. kind regards, Simone Giannerini On 3/7/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: > > > Ok thanks, I am wondering whether running multip

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: > Ok thanks, I am wondering whether running multiple instances of R > would be possible without problems in presence of compiled code > (shared libraries). > Intuitively, while there can be multiple instances of R, all of them > would be using the same

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-07 Thread Simone Giannerini
Ok thanks, I am wondering whether running multiple instances of R would be possible without problems in presence of compiled code (shared libraries). Intuitively, while there can be multiple instances of R, all of them would be using the same library, but I am just guessing, I might do a check on t

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-06 Thread Sean Davis
On 3/6/06 1:37 PM, "Thomas Lumley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: > >> On 3/6/06, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: The environment will probably be either Unix/Linux or Solaris and the

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-06 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: > On 3/6/06, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: >>> The environment will probably be either Unix/Linux or Solaris and the >>> amount of RAM will be 8-16Gb, depending on the number of processors. >>>

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-06 Thread Simone Giannerini
On 3/6/06, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: > > The environment will probably be either Unix/Linux or Solaris and the > > amount of RAM will be 8-16Gb, depending on the number of processors. > > My main concerns are the following: > > > > 1. Ho

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-06 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Simone Giannerini wrote: > The environment will probably be either Unix/Linux or Solaris and the > amount of RAM will be 8-16Gb, depending on the number of processors. > My main concerns are the following: > > 1. How much does R benefit from passing from one processor to > two/

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-06 Thread Simone Giannerini
Dear Sean, many thanks for the suggestion, I will have a look at the packages. Regards, Simone On 3/6/06, Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 3/6/06 11:50 AM, "Simone Giannerini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am managing a departmental purchase of an Opteron

Re: [Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-06 Thread Sean Davis
On 3/6/06 11:50 AM, "Simone Giannerini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am managing a departmental purchase of an Opteron based > workstation/server for scientific computing on which we will be > running R. > The environment will probably be either Unix/Linux or Solaris and the >

[Rd] Running R on dual/quad Opteron machines

2006-03-06 Thread Simone Giannerini
Dear all, I am managing a departmental purchase of an Opteron based workstation/server for scientific computing on which we will be running R. The environment will probably be either Unix/Linux or Solaris and the amount of RAM will be 8-16Gb, depending on the number of processors. My main concerns