[R] Xeon CPU and ATLAS

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

>
> I am about to get a new machine at work - an IBM Intellistation with the
> Xeon 2.8 GB processor.  It will run Windows 2000.  I would like to install
> the proper ATLAS dll for this machine, but I am not sure if Xeon is P4?
> Does anybody have any experience with Xeon?
>

The Xeon line has larger cache than the other P4 chips, and since Atlas
gets much of its power from optimising cache use I would expect a P4 Atlas
not to be optimal.

	-thomas