2010/1/15 Zoran Popović <[email protected]>: > I feel deceived :( ... Itanium is not going to be supported after March 2014 > and in RHEL 6 ?!!?!?!! I know this probably is a bit late reaction, I have > also a SR open with this question and a business case officially documented > in my company (I can send it gladly to anyone interested) with proposal > based on RHEL and HP Integrity blades (Itanium). I will open another SR if
Sure, I'm interested in looking at your business case. We have two SGI itanium altix 350's (8 node/16p total) and another with 2 nodes/4p and all I know is that replacement parts are expensive, the warranty contracts are expensive, and the systems are expensive, and they have a bigger rack and environmental footprint. The 1.5GHz 16p system has lower performance than a single node 16p 2.93GHz Xeon nehalem system (for our computational work loads). Let's just say we're not replacing the itaniums as the nodes start dieing. Ours used to run RHEL3 but SGI made us switch to SLES9 or 10, perhaps that's another option if you really want itanium support (don't know about novell's plans). In any case, even SGI's new "UV" large shared memory/many cores system uses nehalem CPUs. HTH _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
