The update also includes a preview package for running RHEL on up to 256 Itanium chips and up to 128 Power chips. These figures apply to logical CPUs as well, so core counts will affect the total number of chips supported. The update also includes support for Intel's upcoming dual-core version of the Itanium processor.
Linux and MS are now both pushing 64bit, although the change to it has been slow it will become a must!
