The Inquirer: Is the Itanium 2 on the yellow brick road?
Posted by Ken Farmer, Thursday June 19 2003 @ 10:42AM EDT
DUE THIS Summer, Madison, the third generation of the Intel Itanium Processor Family (IPF) is almost upon us and is being preceded by some notable customer wins and ISV adoption.
Let’s catch up on the latest happenings.
Software Apps
SAP has just announced its global support of 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 and key features of SQL Server 2000 (64-bit). SAP R/3 Enterprise is already available on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) along with mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) and SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO). In October 2002, the HP rx5670 Itanium based server achieved the first certified Windows-based benchmark result for the SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer-Demand Planning (SAP APO-DP) solution running on Microsoft Windows, as well as record-setting benchmark results for SPECweb99_SSL running Linux and for SPECjbb2000 running HP-UX.
IDC: Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer Blade Solution
Analysis of the Xtreme-X architecture and management system while assessing challenges and opportunities in the technical computing market for blade servers. Video - The Road to PetaFlop Computing
Explore the Scalable Unit concept where multiple clusters of various sizes can be rapidly built and deployed into production. This new architectural approach yields many subtle benefits to dramatically lower total cost of ownership.
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