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Re: chances of PPC64 build?
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:54:35 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 17:43, Jeremy Enos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi there-
> Suppose I'm assembling a list of OS candidates to run on a very large PPC64
> based supercomputer- what are the odds of seeing a SL6 PPC64 version?
> thx-

PPC64 seems to be a hard platform to support it would seem. Red Hat
has support for PPC-64 but CentOS was never able to complete theres
into a booting format. The Fedora PPC-64 project does have people
working on it but they are usually several releases behind.

To answer people's questions I think it was Itanium RHEL dropped for
6. It was close for PPC because the long term costs are just
exorbitant compared so say X86_64+GPU.

>    Jeremy Enos
>



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