Troy and all,

Itanium is pretty expensive for the budget I have, and many friends told 
me to buy Athlon and never think about Itanium, even though dual core 
Itanium 2 IS coming SOON (?). Well I do not have the ability to help 
maintaining SL ia64. But I am very curious why CERN is phasing out 
Itanium. What architecture are they planning to use?

Regards,
K.K.Liang

> Currently CERN is doing all of the work for the Itanium (ia64) support 
> in Scientific Linux.  This is because they have Itanium machines.
> CERN's hardware roadmap has them phasing out Itanium's, and eventually 
> getting rid of all of them.  When this happens CERN will no longer to 
> support the ia64 port of Scientific Linux.  This is not going to 
> happen overnight, or in a few months, but it will happen.
> We have asked the High Energy Physic's community at the last two HEPIX 
> conferences, if anyone will be affected, and both time's, nobody said 
> that they would.
>
> I am now asking the question to the general Scientific Linux 
> development community.  Is there a lab, univerisity, or organization 
> that not only needs Scientific Linux on ia64, but is also willing to 
> support it?
>
> The main developers have all agreed that it's ok by us if ia64 goes 
> away gracefully.  We don't want ia64 hanging around if nobody is using 
> it. But on the other hand, if someone needs it, and is willing to put 
> forth the effort to support it, we will be willing to keep it in the 
> distribution.



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Thematic Center for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (TCMES)
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