Its not for enterprise server systems, it was designed from the ground up for supercomputing, it actually has a pretty large role in that sector too. NASA's Columbia Supercomputer uses 10,240 Intel Itanium 2's. It was never intended for the mainstream server market where you only use 100's of these processors. It was intended for this use and this is where Intel and HP are most likley going to use it. Furethermore NOT ONE supercomputer out there is running on windows, it is too unstable and cycle hungry, the run on derivatives of Linux, Unix and other Cluster OSes.
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Its not for enterprise server systems, it was designed from the ground up for supercomputing, it actually has a pretty large role in that sector too. NASA's Columbia Supercomputer uses 10,240 Intel Itanium 2's. It was never intended for the mainstream server market where you only use 100's of these processors. It was intended for this use and this is where Intel and HP are most likley going to use it. Furethermore NOT ONE supercomputer out there is running on windows, it is too unstable and cycle hungry, the run on derivatives of Linux, Unix and other Cluster OSes.