Re: [MLUG] hardware platforms for Linux: athlon, xeon, itanium, etc.

[Ian Scott <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to get a handle on the options and their costs and benefits.
> Apparently, the Itanium2 64-bit CPU will not run SAS under Linux, so we
> aren't going to be able to use it.  We must have a Linux on a 32-bit CPU
> so that we can run SAS.
> 
> I'm looking at a few things on the web.  It seems that Athlons and Xeons
> are both nice, fast chips.  Will Linux perform differently on the two
> types of chips (e.g., stability)?  How about price differences?  Am I
> missing other good options?
> 
> All advice is very welcome!

Athlon systems are generally much, much cheaper than Xeons, but actually 
finding a vendor that sells and supports large-scale Athlon systems is 
pretty hard.  You mentioned before that you had an existing support 
contract with HP.  They have plenty of big Xeon boxes, but no Athlons. 
They also have some AMAZING Alpha boxes, which would be my 
recommendation over Itanium2.  Unfortunately, SAS won't work on Alpha 
Linux.  It does look like it runs on Tru64 UNIX, though, which is the 
Alpha's 'main' UNIX platform.

Ian


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