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: [log in to unmask] 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Jim McCarthy
> Sent: 11 April 2008 07:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>