| SUSE Linux Documentation Chapter 1. System Requirements for Operating Linux / 1.2. Hardware for Itanium | ||||
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 | Chapter 1. System Requirements for Operating Linux | 1.3. Hardware for AMD64 and Intel 64 |  | |
| SUSE Linux Documentation Chapter 1. System Requirements for Operating Linux / 1.2. Hardware for Itanium | ||||
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| Chapter 1. System Requirements for Operating Linux | 1.3. Hardware for AMD64 and Intel 64 | | |
The Itanium architecture is 64-bit and allows operation of large servers.
Itanium II (older Itanium CPUs are no longer supported). Dual core CPUs and hyperthreading are also supported.
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.
A minimum of 1GB RAM per CPU socket is required.
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 | Hard Disk Requirements |
|---|---|
Minimal System | 4 GB |
Recommended | 10 GB |
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 Enterprise Server.
