On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 07:22 +0800, Kuo Kan Liang wrote: > Troy and all, > > But I am very curious why CERN is phasing out > Itanium. What architecture are they planning to use? Maybe a misunderstanding: CERN has only ~100 IA64s, compared to several thousands i386/x86_64. The IA64s are part of a common research project with Intel and HP (see http://cern.ch/openlab), and while they give really nice performance, they are currently not competitive for the HTC applications we run on most of our machines. We are currently in internal discussions on how we want to run these IA64 machines, i.e. whether they should look as similar to other CERN machines (and whether this goal is worth doing/maintaining SL(C) for IA64). Regards Jan