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Adul

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Itanium

A FOUR WAY Itanium 2 machine which will be launched in July is on display at the Intel booth in Computex.

The machine, codenamed Bandera, is a ready to run system for integrators and people who might want to rebrand the box.

The machine was not running but comes with instructions for integrators on the top of the box. No details of pricing were available.
 
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i'm sitting next to that unsinkable woman! (i'll just follow her and be safe)! :p

molly brown i think it was?
 
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Originally posted by: ElFenix
i'm sitting next to that unsinkable woman! (i'll just follow her and be safe)! :p

molly brown i think it was?
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Well I dont think you would have much trouble finding her in a large crowd ;)
 
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Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
but is there any software for the thing?
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Windows .NET Server, although I believe that it is optimized to run on Merced Itanium. And maybe Linux?
 
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They benchmarked it, although prematurely, and it DEFINTEly SLAUGHTERs the yet-to-be-release UltraSparc III 1Ghz.

Let me see here...

While runnign hte Internet-based Commerce RSA SSL-CBenchmark


Itanium2(dual Processor setup) 1440 SSL transactions per second ..about 3 times as high as an eight-processor UltraSPARC III
server

About 50% more transactions than a comparable system...



Runnig the MP linkpack 10k Benchmark....13Gigaflops

These are not official benchmarks as they have not been submitted for open review;just numbers given to Eweek by Intel...but still...promising nonetheless



Appearantly they are maxed out a 8 processors if I am not mistaken or is it 32...still giving Sun the edge when It comes to 32+ cpu servers...



 
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"Intel's E8870 chipset will enable 2-way through 16-way multi-processor Itanium 2-based platforms. OEMs can design up to 512-way configurations based on the Intel E8870 chipset and its Scalability Port technology."
 
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Once Microsoft ships 64-bit versions of .NET Enterprise Servers and variations of Linux and Unix are ported to Itanium 2, this processor will kick ass.
 
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The preliminary SPEC scores are pretty impressive as well, I think.

It's been a long journey. I started working on McKinley back in 1997, and I'm still spending a little bit of my time on it. I did the store and fill buffers and associated circuitry for the level 1 data cache. It's been a great project with a fun team. I sure hope it succeeds. It seems like it has the performance it needs. I had the feeling when I was working on the design - and I still have it - that we were making a chip that will be remembered for quite a while. I guess we'll see.
 
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Originally posted by: pm
The preliminary SPEC scores are pretty impressive as well, I think.

It's been a long journey. I started working on McKinley back in 1997, and I'm still spending a little bit of my time on it. I did the store and fill buffers and associated circuitry for the level 1 data cache. It's been a great project with a fun team. I sure hope it succeeds. It seems like it has the performance it needs. I had the feeling when I was working on the design - and I still have it - that we were making a chip that will be remembered for quite a while. I guess we'll see.
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but in what way? ;)

j/k
 
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Adul is bringing us the hardware news now :) ! Good job Adul!
Whatever happened to the other guy? Did he get fired?
 
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Originally posted by: Pocatello
Adul is bringing us the hardware news now :) ! Good job Adul!
Whatever happened to the other guy? Did he get fired?
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hahaha, na. NFS4 is still doing it, I was just helping out since he was busy working.
 
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Originally posted by: joohang
Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
but is there any software for the thing?
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Windows .NET Server, although I believe that it is optimized to run on Merced Itanium. And maybe Linux?
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yeah, but what about software programs? DB servers, web servers, etc? Don't they have to be ported to the platform?
 
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Originally posted by: Pocatello
Adul is bringing us the hardware news now :) ! Good job Adul!
Whatever happened to the other guy? Did he get fired?
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She sure is doing a good job for a woman.

I smacked her with a trout a couple of times so she now works more efficiently.
 
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joohang

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Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
Originally posted by: joohang
Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
but is there any software for the thing?
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Windows .NET Server, although I believe that it is optimized to run on Merced Itanium. And maybe Linux?
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yeah, but what about software programs? DB servers, web servers, etc? Don't they have to be ported to the platform?
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That's the problem. I haven't a clue whether or not Microsoft will port the .NET Enterprise Servers to 64-bit. You can probably run IIS on the 64-bit .NET Server though. :D :Q ;) :p
 
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