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Good!

There should be real competition on the high-end to Itanium and fortunately it comes from IBM. They CAN provide microporcessors that are much better performing than the overhyped Itanium.

The Itanium is an interesting point in the design space: EPIC + RISC. It is a good match for numerical computation type of workloads. It has several weaknesses, though, in the general purpose server area. High interrupt and context switching rates render the EPIC benefits insignificant. Even more so, its large state caches makes it perform poorly under the above workloads.

P4 and P5 are performing well in computation workloads AND at the same time they perform ,uch better for the server type of workloads.

The other factor is the capabilit of the design teams. Intel has some good people but it seems that IBM is far ahead overall in R/D.

I am glad that IBM is forcing Intel to improve its usually FAT designs.

-m

PS. I read some people talking about ms windows running on high end HP Itanium-based server and competing with the IBM SMP.

DREAM ON. windows for 64-bit on 64 processor SMP will be released sometime in the next century.

Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 02/18/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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