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 are the following:
1. How much does R benefit from passing from one processor to two/four processor machines? Consider that the typical intensive use of the server will be represented by simulation studies with many repeated loops. 2. How does R cope with parallelization and/or parallelized compiled code ? I would be very grateful if someone could give suggestions and/or point me to information on the above mentioned issues. Regards, Simone Giannerini -- ______________________________________________________ Simone Giannerini Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" Universita' di Bologna Via delle belle arti 41 - 40126 Bologna, ITALY Tel: +39 051 2098248 Fax: +39 051 232153 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
