Hi Jerome: 

> Actually, nodes are with 2 GB/processor, but maybe we plan to 
> upgrade the RAM later, because we will use regional ocean 
> model with lot of parameters  : physic + biology + 
> geochemistry. Experience from our colleague, whos work with 
> similar code, show they upgrade RAM.
> So I would like to install a good and full relevant 64 bit OS 
> now, in order to be ready with this side next.

Understood.  However, since OSCAR is image-based, it actually does not
too a long time to re-deploy the cluster, so you can also consider using
i386 for now and if you do upgrade your memory, re-image to x86_64
(hopefully by then we will have full support!)

> Is Redhat 3 WS x86_64 fully supported and finally the one and 
> only SOLUTION ?

RHEL 3 supports Itanium (IA64) *NOT* x86_64.  These are totally
different architectures.

> Is RPMs rebuild under Fedora easy and fast? Did you have 
> links, trick ?

If you're lucky, then all you need to do is re-compile all the OSCAR
specific RPMs from the spec file provided by the SRPMs.  This may be a
bit daunting if you have not done something like this before...

> With Fedore core 2 (and 3), we are encountering hardware 
> trouble with the sataraid 2410SA from adpatec. This is a know 
> trouble, which appears in the partionning stage (alarm and 
> hang : see 
> www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg04100.htm
l). From Adaptec, they are no support, just for Redhat. We are > trying
to install Fedoro core 2 in simple SATA mode today.

So you are saying that RHEL doesn't have that problem?  If that's the
case, I suggest you start with that.

Cheers,

Bernard


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