Trouble choosing linux architecture

[Paul J Harding]

I have a quad-cpu, dual core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.70GHz setup.

I am trying to figure out if I should use

Redhat Enterprise AMD64
Redhat Enterprise EM64
Redhat Enterprise IA64
or
Redhat Enterprise x86-64

Can someone shine some light for me on this?

[Paul J Harding]

My Server is a HP Proliant DL760 G2

[Ivan Ferreira]

IA64 is for itanium based processors. Red Hat for EMT64 or AMD64 is the same distro, so your choices really are:

IA64 - Not for your
x86 - Can be installed, 64-bit extensions not available
x86_64 - Can be installed on AMD64 or Intel EMT64

[Paul J Harding]

Ivan,

Thanks for your reply.

What I am trying to ultimately know is what is the best architecture for my CPU:
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.70GHz

you mentioned:
x86-64: Can be installed on AMD64 or EMT64

Is this what my chip is?

[Matti_Kurkela]

In short, yes.

MK

[David Claypool · Accepted solution]

This is definitely a 32-bit processor. See related thread at https://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1155719

[Matti_Kurkela]

Oops, sorry.
"Dual-core" made me ass-u-me that these CPUs would be fairly new. That hyperthreading feature makes it easy to confuse things, but I still should have checked some more.

(A big fat zero points for me from this thread, please!)

MK

[Paul J Harding]

I would but there's no crime in assuming something that was stated in the problem description!

so 5 it is.. and thank you all for helping.
closing thread.