On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Ian Fisk wrote:
> Dear Szabolcs,
>
> There is an evaluation note that Hans Wenzel did for US-CMS.
> It is a CMS Internal note. It's a megabyte so I won't forward it to
> the list.
>
> http://cmsdoc.cern.ch/documents/05/in/in05_012.pdf
>
> As a result of these evaluations, US-CMS decided to buy 280 Dual
> Opteron nodes. The gatekeepers are still on Xeon systems. These
> are used for worker nodes. The grid job manager was modified to
> submit to either architecture. So far the experience is fine, the
> applications run transparently. [...]
In 64- or 32-bit mode?
Also note that this only covers CMS software, not all LCG software.
The port to AMD-64 is still on the to-do list; it got delayed for
various reasons; no clear schedule yet.
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