FACTS:
a) They don't know what it does in the first place.
b) They don't know what it looks like.
SOLUTION:
Deliver a pos tool that doesn't actually do anything of value, or anything at all. It would take all of 5 minutes to code, and solve all of your problems.
Just speaking from experience.
I ran 4 dual itanium 2's with 16 gigs of ram each.
It took my group months to optimize the code, and in the end they were slower than a 2.5G pentium IV, and the only advantage was the extra memory addressing ability.
We trashed the itaniums in the end, and purchased 2 quad opterons with twice the memory for half the price.
THE OPTERONS RUN ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE FATSER. I have benchmarks that prove it.
My group was doing all floating point operations.
This is all done in 'c' code compiled directly on the platform that it's used on. This was using the same version compilers and redhat linux.
The itanium looks good on paper. That's about it.
The only people that I know personally that speak highly of the itaniums are the people that have never wrestled with them.
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FACTS: a) They don't know what it does in the first place. b) They don't know what it looks like. SOLUTION: Deliver a pos tool that doesn't actually do anything of value, or anything at all. It would take all of 5 minutes to code, and solve all of your problems.
put the servers in north korea and tell the money mongers to kiss your anonymous ass.
Just speaking from experience. I ran 4 dual itanium 2's with 16 gigs of ram each. It took my group months to optimize the code, and in the end they were slower than a 2.5G pentium IV, and the only advantage was the extra memory addressing ability. We trashed the itaniums in the end, and purchased 2 quad opterons with twice the memory for half the price. THE OPTERONS RUN ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE FATSER. I have benchmarks that prove it. My group was doing all floating point operations. This is all done in 'c' code compiled directly on the platform that it's used on. This was using the same version compilers and redhat linux. The itanium looks good on paper. That's about it. The only people that I know personally that speak highly of the itaniums are the people that have never wrestled with them.