On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Wagner Costa wrote:
>> Good Morning,
>> 
>> Recently the lab where I work acquired one HP Workstation with Xeon (64 
>> bit) pocessors - HP Z400 workstation. The Question raised here is: does 
>> Scientific Linux supports this processor?
>> 
>> We do know that Red Hat Enterprise Edition Worsktation (WS) does fully 
>> support the hardware. We do however prefer to keep Scientific as standard 
>> for the lab.
>> 
>> May, please, anyone help?
>> 
>> Thank you for your time and Help!
>> 
>> Wagner
>
> Brief Answer: Yes
> Longer Answer:
> If it runs on a version of RHEL (WS/AS, Client or Server) then it should work 
> on the matching version of SL.
> RHEL4 update 6 -> SL 4.6
> RHEL5 update 3 -> SL 5.3

Does SL support all the architectures that Red Hat support
IA-64, PPC, s390x as well as i386/IA-32 and x86_64 ?

I *think* that an HP Xeon workstation is IA-64.

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