In January I try to get the Roadmaps for Intel Nehalem and AMD Istanbul. I only want to find out if this to Architecutre are support with RHEL4 until 2010. Because my draft for a Major Release schedule skip RHEL5 and go direct to RHEL6, but RHEL6 is earliest ready ende of 2010 so we need Hardware for RHEL4 until 2010.
It was not possible to get a answer from our Tier1 Vendor if they support RHEL5 with the new Servermodel with AMD Istanbul. That’s for me not possible that they can’t gibe us this simple answer.
I will maybe try to conntact someone in a higher possition.
for Intel I have a presentation in February, so I hope they will bring some new information. We did a test last year with a 64 Core server ( IBM x3950 M2 ) but the performance was really bad in our Enviroment. Should be really better with Nehalem.