lack of equipment and interest is certainly an issue for ia64. i don't know of many (any) running these today.
s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen L. Scott, Ph.D. voice: 865-574-3144 Oak Ridge National Laboratory fax: 865-576-5491 P. O. Box 2008, Bldg. 5100, MS-6173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Steven (and anybody else who is interested): > > We decided to "drop" IA64 only due to the lack of man-power. I do not > think there were any technological issues preventing us from > supporting it -- we just didn't have the hardware/resources, and thus > it is not currently listed as being supported in 5.x. > > If somebody has the hardware (i.e. more than one IA64 servers), and > resources (rebuild all the SRPMs and test), then it is definitely > do-able. > > I am not sure the current status of SystemImager support on the IA64, > but if you run into issues, the SystemImager developers should be able > to help out in that regard. > > So, if anybody is interested in getting IA64 (re)-supported in future > OSCAR releases, please let us know! > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > On 6/11/07, Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Since this discusses unsupported distributions I am moving the thread >>to oscar-devel. >> >>For the record, Bernard Li did most of the check ins I noticed. >> >>On 6/8/07, Steven A. DuChene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Thanks for the info, Michael >>>Can you tell from the SVN checkins who was working on it last? >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>> >>>>From: Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Sent: Jun 8, 2007 7:27 AM >>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Cc: "Steven A. DuChene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] ia64 support gone in OSCAR-5.X ? >>>> >>>>There appears to be at least limited ia64 support in trunk. I am not >>>>sure if it is complete, but most of the core packages appear to be >>>>available for RHEL 4 on ia64. You'll need to do a subversion checkout >>>>as described here >>>>http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/faq.development.svn-howto >>>> >>>>The fact that it is not one of the nightly build tarballs indicates it >>>>is probably not complete. >>>> >>>>On 6/8/07, Greenseid, Joseph M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>>When 5.0 was released, there was no ia64 support -- for my ia64 system I >>>>>built a few months ago, I had to use 4.2.1. I have been keeping an eye to >>>>>see if that changed, but I don't think it has yet. >>>>> >>>>>--Joe >>>>> >>>>>________________________________ >>>>> >>>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steven A. DuChene >>>>>Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 3:53 PM >>>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>Subject: [Oscar-users] ia64 support gone in OSCAR-5.X ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I have looked through the FAQ, and the various pieces of available >>>>>documentation as well >>>>>as the various files available from the OSCAR downloads sites for an >>>>>answer to ia64 support. >>>>>Is there no current OSCAR-5.X bits for installing onto an ia64 cluster? >>>>>-- >>>>>Steven DuChene >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>>>>Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>>>>control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >>>>>http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>Oscar-users mailing list >>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >>http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >>_______________________________________________ >>Oscar-devel mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
