[BioC] Try to run a lots of chips: 32 bits vs 64 bits

[Robert Gentleman]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:33:31PM -0800, Shi, Tao wrote:
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> I'm trying to follow up on the discussions by Laurent and Issac, b/c we're also trying to run a lots of arrays (~200 133A) with Bioconductors.  We tried with R on our 32 bits Linux server with 2G ram and it failed.  So, my questions are:

 Could you perhaps say a bit more than "failed", it is rather hard to
 understand what the problem might be, given that amount of
 information. 

> 1) now what is the highest number of chips you can process with Bioconductor?
> 2) How do you know if your R is 32 bits or 64 bits and how do you build 64 bits R under a 32 bits architecture?  Our system administrator mentioned to me that the only mention in the administration manual is for Sparc systems (64-bit
> arch).
> 3) For specific analyses, for example, quantile normalization and RMA, is there a way around it?
> Many thanks in advance,
> ...Tao 
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