Hi Jan,

I don't know if I'm the right person to answer your question, but I'm 
running the x86_64 version of SL 5 on a dual core Opteron.  I always 
upgrade the kernel to the latest version available on kernel.org (and 
compile it myself)  When I checked my kernel source out today, it 
indicated that it could be customized for your xeon processors.  I have 
a "personal computer" using a server motherboard and the Opteron.

Hope this helps.

Harold Norris

Jan Iven wrote:
> On 16/11/07 16:18, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
>> Excuses if I sent a previous email on that subject not to the list or 
>> to the wrong addressees. Here again:
>>
>> We will be receiving a 64bit server with two Intel Xeons E5365 (3GHz)
>> and 32 GB of RAM soon and I would like to run a 64bit OS, preferably 
>> SL on it.
>>
>> Anyone of CERN here on list list who could give recommendations
>> as I know that some machines at CERN run a 64 bit OS.
>
> You may be pushing things a bit beyond our experience in CERN-IT - but 
> we have 2x E5345s at 16GB on SLC4/x86_64 over here. Obviously the 
> experiments get all the interesting stuff.. ;-)
>
> Jan
>