Nid Hogge wrote:It was 512 Itanium based CPU's.. Itaniums generally.. Suck. Hard time. Especially the older generation ones where Zappa ran on.. If it would run on 512 x86 cores it would KILL anything.. But that's already slides into the Supercomputer segment.. A whole different story.
Nid Hogge wrote:It was 512 Itanium based CPU's.. Itaniums generally.. Suck. Hard time. Especially the older generation ones where Zappa ran on.. If it would run on 512 x86 cores it would KILL anything.. But that's already slides into the Supercomputer segment.. A whole different story.
Hmm, Interesting, but Intel will need to work harder than this to bring some faith in Itanium.
I'm waiting to see how Tukwila will do. It has the new QPI which Nehalem will also use and is finally a Quad. I think it's doing the right way to recovery.. And it's ain't gonna die despite what IBM will keep telling you.. In fact Itanium has finally turned profitable some months ago.. and Intel is much more serious than it was ever before.
BTW here's an article on Intel's HPC plans.. Ironically Itaniun biggest threat is.. Nehalem. Since it's eliminates the last "problem" older Intel CPU's have with HPC (IMC). With Nehalem they can not only regain the no. 1 spot again, but also massively populate the strongest Supercomputers in the world(Currently dominated by AMD/IBM).
"We have a special division focused on HPC - an organization that lives and dies on HPC," he said. "We are not being specific right now about our offerings, but we definitely will be part of the petaflop race.
"We are aiming for the top of the top." Gelsinger declined to provide us with any specifics around an upcoming Intel-based monster. But you could see Intel working with some of the accelerator players to craft a "top" machine that teams co-processors with some upcoming "Nehalem" versions of Xeon. Or maybe Gelsinger is looking even further out at a system which taps the graphics capabilities of the upcoming Larrabee processor.
Intel will release its grand HPC vision later this year at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Gelsinger said.
Intel has also enjoyed some HPC success with Itanium, although it seems unlikely that the EPIC chip will lead the company's petascale charge.