Is mixing of PA-RISC and Itanium processors factory configurable?
NO. The plan is to enable PA-RISC systems that shipped from the factory to add Itanium partitions later on in the field. In addition, HP offers the ability to enable Itanium-based systems that shipped from the factory to add PA-RISC partitions later on in the field (this will happen less frequently) The plan is not to allow PA RISC or Intel Itanium based partitions to be added to systems that shipped from the factory. The sx2000 Superdome does not support PA-RISC processors yet so therefore mixing of Itanium 2 and PA-RISC processors is not supported in the sx2000 systems. Mixing of sx1000 and sx2000 chipsets in the same system is NOT supported. 5) How long does it take to add an Itanium-based partition in an HP 9000 customers? The effort required to add an Itanium-based partition to an HP 9000 Superdome is slightly more than what is required to add a new PA-RISC-based partition. In both cases you have to create a new hard partition in the Superdome, plug in cell boards for the new proc
