Re: Intel selling Itanium?

So???


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<etmsreec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you're on a VAX then sure. If you're on an Alpha, it's a different
story since it requires an Industry Standard 64-bit server.

Steve

David Turner, Island Computers US Corp wrote:
All....

See www.softresint.com

I think the future of VMS may be more obvious than people think!

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"Bill Todd" <billtodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JF Mezei wrote:

...

The big question is whether Intel will announce 8086 features that
allow
it to scale to Superdome before or at the same time as the end of
line
for IA64 is announced.

Exactly what scaling features do you think Itanic has that Intel's x86
products don't? People like Sequent were building 32- and
64-processor
x86 configurations close to a decade ago (I'm not going to look up
exact
dates), and others could (and quite likely would) be doing so today if
they hadn't gotten side-tracked by the Itanic hype (a 32- or 64-core
Woodcrest machine would handily show its heels to Itanic on most
workloads despite having significantly less on-chip cache and
therefore
lower manufacturing cost, and at far lower power to boot - even lower
power than Montecito will require, despite its vast improvements in
that
area).

Of course, IBM already offers up to 64-core x86 configurations, but
using a somewhat cobbled-together approach that doesn't scale superbly
and uses the far less capable Pentium 4 ('Netburst') architecture (and
that chipset may not be capable of using the new Woodcrest server
parts). Still, even that second-class product has beaten Itanic
core-for-core in some up to 32-core benchmarks...

And the 'common system interconnect' (CSI) that Intel is planning for
2008 will support both Itanic and x86, so no advantage there for
Itanic,
either.

The one real performance edge that Itanic used to hold over x86
(running
FP-intensive code) has just been erased by Woodcrest (not that Opteron
was all that far behind before). Itanic is looking even more
irrelevant
than ever these days, and I'm certainly not aware of any rabbits it
could pull out of its hat to change that situation.

- bill



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