Dear R users, I?ve been using SVM (e1071) on different 64 bits linux distributions very successfully. Very recently I had to migrate some of our codes to a server with xeon e7 processors, 65 gb of RAM, running Windows. Very surprisingly, the peformance of the same code, in the same server, on R 32 bits was much better than on R 64 bits (~5 times). I confirmed these results in another windows machine, now a notebook, to exclude the possibility of a problem specific to that server. In both cases, R 32 bits is using more RAM memory (~900 mb) than 64 bits (~600 mb). Changing cache size of SVM doesn?t impact it. As I need to use de 64 bits version, I went to internet looking for ways of improving the perfomance of 64 bits version. Reading about possible causes, I arrived to Blas and Lapack issues. I have tried different pre-compiled Rblas.dll available on the internet, including SurviveGotoBLAS-3.14. Also, I tried to use R from Revolution Analytics (Revolution R Open) that has a optimized Blas (Intel MKL) , without any visible. Could you give any help or share similar experience with this issue? Thank you very much for your help. Frederico Arnoldi
performance of svm (e1071) on windows 64 bits vs 32 bits
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