itanium2

[Douglas Johnson]

Hi,

It appears that the original question was about Itanium 2 (see subject
line), not the first generation IA64. We've ordered a 300 processor
Itanium 2 cluster based on the HP zx2000 systems. These have a chipset
that was developed by HP and we've been very impressed with the
performance. There is also a 'whitebox' board available from Intel but we
do not have any experience with these.

For distribution we've been using the redhat-7.2 for IA64 (needed a newer
kernel for the HP chipset, all else works ok). We've also received a beta
copy of the 'redhat linux advanced workstation for itanium 2' but have not
had a chance to install it on our systems.

Doug


On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Galen Arnold wrote:

> Lauro,
> 
> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/IA64LinuxCluster/
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Lauro L. A. Whately wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   is someone running a cluster of itanium ?
> > how is it working ? which motherboard are you using ?
> > and Linux distribution ?
> > 
> >   Thanks in advance !
> > Lauro Whately.