A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > OK, I have a new lab with 25 dualcore 2GHz 64bit AMD Athlons. > However, I only have a 32bit OS installed (Knoppix DVD which is like > debian with lots of apps including R and Octave). > > Question 1: > With that setup, I should install the 32bit Sage tarball, right? > > Question 2: > Also, will I benefit from upgrading to a 64bit OS (ubuntoo or gentoo?) > first, then installing the 64bit Sage tarball? > >
I was just asking the same questions myself, having a (old) 64 bit box that my IT person gave me for a new Sage server. On IRC, Carl Witty said that there are significant speed increases going with 64 bit, for example, in multiprecision arithmetic. Something like 4x faster (don't quote me on that, though!). It was enough to convince me to install 64-bit Ubuntu. I would highly recommend that you post this question to sage-support as well. The answer is very interesting to a much wider audience than on sage-edu, and the people on sage-support (but not sage-edu) would also be able to answer the question and chip in advice. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
