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Going Itanium 2?

Posted by Cliff on from the last-minute-processor-changes dept.

Marcel Turcotte asks: "I am buying equipments for a new lab. Last year, when we applied for funding, we included an Itanium based server in our budget. Now that the money has arrived, I am not so sure that Itanium is the way to go. Although there are great machines, such as the HP rx5670 running Linux, people don't seem enthusiast about the chip. I am wondering how the acceptance of the IA-64 compares with the acceptance of other chips."

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  1. How about UltraSPARC? by turgid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have you thought about Sun UltraSPARC machines? You can get some pretty decent low-end boxen such as the Sun Blade 100 and Sun Blade 150 or go for more up-market workstations like the Sun Blade 2000 or servers. UltraSPARC is currently in it's 3rd incarnation (USIIICu), has been about for years, is well understood, and can run Solaris and various Linux distros. GCC runs on it as does most Free and Open Source software. UltraSPARC is the only proven high-end 64-bit CPU with a long-term roadmap.

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