Years ago our cluster was mixed architecture.  At one point it contained four 
architectures: x86, x86_64, Itanium and Alpha.  It worked fine for us, but our 
workload is largely embarrassingly parallel and we certainly never tried 
running MPI jobs across architectures.

Tim

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