On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.

My understanding is that ia64 for CentOS-5 is being worked on and will
be released soonish.  I do not have an ETA.  If I get more info, I
will post it in this mailing list.

Akemi