[CentOS] CentOS4_64 On Dell

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Tue May 3 08:40:53 UTC 2005


On Tue, 3 May 2005 at 9:25am, Peter Farrow wrote

> Its not a 64bit CPU though, it just has large address space support.
> 
> It really doesn't need a 64 bit kernel as it isn't a 64bit CPU, in 
> effect unless your stacking it full of RAM
>  and need the large mem support it will probably run slower on a 64bit 
> install.

1) Please don't top post, and please trim your posts to just the bits 
   relevant to your response.

2) The Xeons in the Dell Poweredge 1850 are indeed 64bit CPUs, based on 
   the same x86_64 technology that AMD introduced with their Opterons.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University



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