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There is no reason to believe any production Itanium system ever ran Linux.
by stefan_ 3y ago
There is no reason to believe any production Itanium system ever ran Linux.
- acdha 3y agoThat depends on what you mean by production. The only Itanium server I ever used was at a supercomputing center where it was considered production as a service for researchers, and that ran Linux. The researchers I worked with compiled a few things for it but it was slower than AMD on almost everything so nobody used it. I think the one exception was someone who had an extremely large dataset which could fit in memory on that system.
- mrpippy 3y agoThat is totally false. If nothing else, SGI sold Itanium systems that only ran Linux. In addition, there were plenty of Linux Itanium HPC clusters on the Top500, there are 20 listed in June 2006 when I randomly searched: https://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/ https://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/
- sillywalk 3y agoWhy not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(supercomputer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(supercomputer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix