Hi, I wouldn't add Itanium architecture to an existing Opteron cluster. The binaries are completely different. The new Xeon 64bit systems are OK, just like the Opterons, so it is easy to extend the existing OSCAR installation with new Xeons.
Regards, Alex Landsberg Opal - The Essence of Elegant Computing +972-54-4825266 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Becker Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:57 AM To: OSCAR users Subject: [Oscar-users] Mixed architecture OSCAR cluster Hello OSCAR friends. I have a slight dilemma, which I would like the advice of the OSCAR community to help me in resolving. Let's say I have a cluster up and running, based on Opterons. Now, I get a quote - a good quote - to extend it; the only problem is that the new boxes have Intel chips (either Xeon or Itanium). Now, our application compiles and runs fine on all of the above, but I'm wondering how much of a pain managing the cluster is going to be. My question is : Has anyone out there tried this or something like this before - managing a heterogeneous OSCAR cluster ? I'm particularly worried about the imaging process... Any other experience or advice is most appreciated and will help us in making our choice. Thanks Bruce _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
