BT Administrator wrote:
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> 
> Have anybody evaluated how many Itanium machines might reinstall the 
> current OS to SL once
> SL ia64 distribution is ready ?
> 
...
That is a very good question, and I was going to put it into my e-mail, 
but decided to keep things short.

If you look at our statistics page, based on architecture

https://www.scientificlinux.org/about/stats/arch.html

You see that out of 15,500 machines, only 40 are doing ia64.

Now, I know that these are just the machines that get their updates from 
the central mirror, so these numbers aren't the grand total.  But I 
believe they give a good percentage.

The numbers are actually so low, that I was actually able to look at the 
ip addresses.  I was able to take out the one machine from Fermilab, a 
couple machines from CERN, some of the machine's from the labs that were 
at HEPIX that we talked to, then take out the machines from the obvious 
mirror services, and we're really down to 16 machines at the most.

It's alot of work ... for 16 machines.

But, for all I know, one of those mirror's is actually for a site that 
has several thousand Itanium machines.  And if that is the case, I want 
to make sure that we don't just drop them, which is why I sent this 
e-mail out.

Troy
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