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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:15:01PM +0300, Resit Sahin wrote:
> I am using NUMA architecture and ia64 CPUs like E5506.

If you are talking about this:

  http://ark.intel.com/products/37096/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5506-%284M-Cache-2_13-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI%29

you have a processor that can run either what we call i386 or amd64.
ia64 is something like this:

  http://ark.intel.com/products/43410/Intel-Itanium-Processor-9350-%2824M-Cache-1_73-GHz-4_80-GTs-Intel-QPI%29

mcl