Hi Benjamin,

I have sucessfully put SL 5 on a dual core Opteron 64 2.2ghz.  I believe 
the kernel uses both processors the same way.

Harold


Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I'm currently working on porting a software to 64bit machines using 
> Linux, so I'm planning to install Scientific Linux 5 on a new machine 
> for that, but before I purchase this new machine, I want to be sure I 
> can install SL5 successfully on it, and I'm not sure which 64-bit AMD 
> CPU are correctly handled by the x86_64 version of SL.
>
> Dell proposes these CPU:
> for desktops: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ and faster
> and for laptops: AMD Turion^TM 64x2 Dual-Core Mobile technology TL-50 
> and bigger
> or AMD Turion^TM 64 Mobile technology MK-36 Processor
>
> Did any of you successfully install SL on any of those processors? 
> Otherwise would you know any detail which would comfort me in choosing 
> one of these?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Benjamin Ooghe
> Department of Physics & Astronomy
> The Johns Hopkins University
> 3400 North Charles Street
> Baltimore, MD 21218-2686 USA
>