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Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:01:42 +0200
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Jan Iven <[log in to unmask]>
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Re: Itanium Support
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To: Kuo Kan Liang <[log in to unmask]> cc: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask], Andreas Hirstius <[log in to unmask]>
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On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 07:22 +0800, Kuo Kan Liang wrote:
> Troy and all,
> 
> But I am very curious why CERN is phasing out 
> Itanium. What architecture are they planning to use?

Maybe a misunderstanding: CERN has only ~100 IA64s, compared to several
thousands i386/x86_64. The IA64s are part of a common research project
with Intel and HP (see http://cern.ch/openlab), and while they give
really nice performance, they are currently not competitive for the HTC
applications we run on most of our machines. We are currently in
internal discussions on how we want to run these IA64 machines, i.e.
whether they should look as similar to other CERN machines (and whether
this goal is worth doing/maintaining SL(C) for IA64). 

Regards
Jan

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