Hi, I just wonder what kind of system ( cpu type, speed and amount of physical memory ) do you use for data analysis. Because I think most of Wintel users are suffered from memory handling problem and computing time. Ben Bolstad kindly offered computing time by cpu speed, memory, array type and number of arrays in his AffyExtensions vignettes. This kind of information would be helpful for people who just about to setup analysis system for microarray. Thanks! -SW [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

If you are interested in the requirements for RMA type expression measures then I did a few simulations that might be of interest. http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~bolstad/ComputeRMAFAQ/size.html This should give you a ballpark idea of what you need and where the limits are. At least in regards to probe level analysis. Ben On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Sek Won Kong, M.D wrote: > Hi, > I just wonder what kind of system ( cpu type, speed and amount of physical memory ) do you use for data analysis. Because I think most of Wintel users are suffered from memory handling problem and computing time. Ben Bolstad kindly offered computing time by cpu speed, memory, array type and number of arrays in his AffyExtensions vignettes. This kind of information would be helpful for people who just about to setup analysis system for microarray. > Thanks! > -SW > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >

I find a Wintel notebook with 1GHz processor, 2Gb physical memory is fine for almost anything but, really, if you plan to do large scale microarray analysis you should simply buy the biggest and fastest you can. This is not restricted to Wintel machines! Gordon At 12:53 AM 16/09/2003, Sek Won Kong, M.D wrote: >Hi, >I just wonder what kind of system ( cpu type, speed and amount of physical >memory ) do you use for data analysis. Because I think most of Wintel >users are suffered from memory handling problem and computing time. Ben >Bolstad kindly offered computing time by cpu speed, memory, array type and >number of arrays in his AffyExtensions vignettes. This kind of information >would be helpful for people who just about to setup analysis system for >microarray. >Thanks! >-SW