I just wanted to second Martin's words.
We originally had Itanium because a lab or two had some Itanium clusters, but
those went away for whatever reason, and we eventually dropped support due to
nobody wanting it.
If you want numbers they are here
https://www.scientificlinux.org/about/stats/arch.html
Although the number of downloads is somewhere between 12-40, when we actually
looked through the numbers, those were usually mirror sites.
I believe someone said CentOS was an option. This is true for CentOS 4, but I
don't see a release yet for CentOS 5.
Troy
Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
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.
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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
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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
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Troy Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (630)840-6468
Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group
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