George Markomanolis wrote:
> Hello, it's my first email to the mailing list. I am newbie to linux and I
> have some questions
> 
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> 1) Does SL support dual core cpu. If I install SL, it will support dual core
> or I must do any change?
> 

Yes.
Although, all of the distributions will actually see and use dual core 
cpu's, Scientific Linux 4.2 is the first one that is actually optimized 
for it.  So I would recommend S.L. 4.2.

> 2) Is the compiler gcc of SL 64-bit edition 64-bit? I mean that I can
> program 64-bit code? I will change also and amd libraries for supporting
> 64-bit code.
> 

That one I'll let people who code more answer.  I haven't coded anything 
to be specific for 64 bit.
 From me ... I say
'I believe so'

> 3) Because I am going to setup a cluster with two pc, there is anything that
> I should take care about hardware? 
> 

That depends on what you are doing with a cluster.
Same services, same disk, same users?  all of the above, none of the above?
There are alot of different types of clusters.  Some are hardware 
dependant, so are not.

> 4) Finally, there is any site with documentation about SL? 
> 

You probrubly mean beyond
https://www.scientificlinux.org/

To be honest, any documentation for Red Hat Enterprise works for 
Scientific Linux of the same vintage.  (Documentation for RHEL 4 works 
for SL 4.x)

A good place to look is RedHat's own documentation, which we can't link 
to from the S.L. website.  It's at

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

Those documents are also in the distrubtion
   yum list rhel\*
   yum info rhel-sag-en
   yum install rhel-sag-en

Others might have other good places for documentation as well.

Troy
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