Support for the Itanium IA64 architecture was dropped due to lack of
interest in taking it on within the HEP community. I think it is still
possible to roll your own from the SL source but Troy/Connie would need
to confirm that.
The i386 and x86_64 variant are unlikely to work on an Itanium - the
Itanium CPUs have a very different architecture. However I've never
tried that since I don't have an Itanium system. Someone else may know
different.
Martin.
--
Martin Bly
RAL Tier1 Fabric Team
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Jim McCarthy
> Sent: 11 April 2008 07:33
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Many SL users running on ia64 ?
>
> Hello --
>
> I recently acquired an HP zx6000 dual Itanium-2 workstation,
> and so I was
> very pleased to find Scientific Linux (version 4.1) available
> for the IA-64
> architecture. But according to the SL news archive, SL 4.1
> for ia64 was
> released 08-Aug-2005, and it appears none of the other SL 4.x
> or SL 5.x
> releases run on ia64.
>
> Are there many SL users running on ia64 ? Are there plans to
> continue SL
> support for this architecture ?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> -- Jim
> ___
>
> My SL 4.1-ia64 install went smoothly, and so far my only
> regret is finding
> that the Open Motif X11 window manager (mwm) "experimental"
> version 2.2
> (openmotif-2.2.3-9.RHEL4.1.ia64.rpm) was chosen for SL 4.1
> (as well as for
> RHEL) and not the Open Group's officially supported and more stable
> "openmotif-2.1.30" release.
>
> http://www.motifdeveloper.com/tips/Motif22Review.pdf
>
