Message-ID: <4F6C5B20.1040208@mx.uni-saarland.de>
Date: 2012-03-23T11:14:40Z
From: Andreas Recktenwald
Subject: New AMD Bulldozer for Parallel Computing with R
Dear R enthusiasts,
i`m planning to set up a new PC and consider to buy an AMD FX-8120. For
my estimations (with floating-point data) I use the genoud optimizer in
the package rgenoud which (at least I think) would be able to handle the
8 cores. Is anybody using the AMD proc for computing with R and could
tell about the performance? What scares me a bit to just buy it are the
huge amount of benchmarks on the net which tell that AMD has really bad
performance ( especially for single-threaded apps). Would the Intel I7
2600 be the better alternative? All the Intel 6-core processors are out
of budget for me.
Best regards,
Andreas Recktenwald
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Universit?t des Saarlandes ? Fakult?t f?r Rechts- und
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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