Re: upgrade from 7.1

Greg

Depending on the actual CPU involved (I dont know what a 7500 has)
it may be a ciph problem.  HP has replaced the Itanium CPUs in our
older Itanium-1 based system because of floating point problems in 
the CPU.  Im pretty sure all the Itanium-II CPUs are fine.

stuart

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Hennessy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:59 PM
Subject: upgrade from 7.1


> I am running Redhat 7.1 on a dual cpu ia64 Dell 7500.
> I'm running some scientific simulations, and finding
> I'm getting different answers for identical reruns
> of the same program, and it looks like I'm having memory
> corruption problems. I'd like to see if an upgrade to
> 7.2 might cure the problems (I've done a lot of debugging
> with dmalloc and found no problems with the code). 
> 
> I can't seem to find any ISO's to use to upgrade.
> Can anyone point me to a location, or place
> to obtain them? I can probably get my supervisor
> to pay a bit for physical CD's.
> 
> Is there any upgrade more recent than 7.2
> that doesn't involve a 1500 dollar per year
> Advanced Server? We simply don't have the budget
> for that.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Greg Hennessy
> [email protected]
> 3450 Mass Ave NW
> Washington DC, 20392
> 
> 
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