Hardware For Itanium - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 08-05-2008 Supplementary Manual

1.2 Hardware for Itanium

The Itanium architecture is 64-bit and allows operation of large servers.
CPU
Itanium II (older Itanium CPUs are no longer supported). Dual core CPUs and
hyperthreading are also supported.
Maximum Number of CPUs
At most, 1024 CPUs are supported. For the calculation of the CPU count, a dual-
core CPU counts as two CPUs and a hyperthreaded CPU with two siblings also
counts as two CPUs. 1024 CPUs could mean 512 dual cores, 512 single cores with
hyperthreading, or 256 dual cores with hyperthreading.
Memory
A minimum of 1GB RAM per CPU socket is required.
Hard Disk Requirements
The disk requirements depend largely on the installation selected. Commonly, you
need more space than the installed software itself needs to have a system that works
properly. Minimal requirements for different selections are:
System
Minimal System
Recommended
Boot Methods
Options for booting the computer depend on the available hardware. All boot
methods available to the machine should work. A special boot server is required
to use PXE boot over the network. This may also be set up with SUSE Linux En-
terprise Server.
Hard Disk Requirements
4 GB
10 GB
System Requirements for Operating Linux 3