[SciPy-User] which EPD?

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 14:38, Alan G Isaac <alan.isaac at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to run some Python simulations on a cluster.
> I'm the first, so I have to request the Python distribution
> that I need. I'm planning to ask for the 64 bit Enthought Python
> Distribution (Red Hat version, since that's the OS).
>
> BUT I want to ask first: is there any reason to
> avoid the 64 bit version in favor of the 32 bit
> version?  (E.g., missing extension packages?)
> I have a **very** vague recollection that there
> was some kind of problem on 64 bits with Fortran
> dependencies.  Is that simply wrong?  Are there
> any other considerations?

You will probably get better help on epd-users at enthought.com . I am
not aware of any problems with the 64-bit RH5 version of EPD, at least
not on a stock install of RH5.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco