[sage-support] Re: to 64bit or not to 64bit, that is the question!

2009-01-17 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > mabshoff wrote: >> >> >> On Jan 17, 9:02 am, "calcp...@aol.com" wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> 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

[sage-support] Re: to 64bit or not to 64bit, that is the question!

2009-01-17 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > > > On Jan 17, 9:02 am, "calcp...@aol.com" wrote: > > Hi, > >> 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

[sage-support] Re: to 64bit or not to 64bit, that is the question!

2009-01-17 Thread calcpage
That's what I thought. All I'd get for my troubles upgrading the OS is a bigger max_int and a larger address space, right? These PCs only have 1GB RAM, so I'm not going over 4GB THanx, A. Jorge Garcia calcp...@aol.com http://calcpage.tripod.com --~--~-~--~~~---

[sage-support] Re: to 64bit or not to 64bit, that is the question!

2009-01-17 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 17, 9:02 am, "calcp...@aol.com" wrote: Hi, > 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 the setup given above, I should i