Marcus, The story I got a few of years ago when SGI was just about to come out with the Altix 3000 was that SGI had decided early on to adopt the Itantium 64 processor. This info was presented to us by one of the members of the Altix development team, back in early 2005, I believe. We were told that there was a lot of tuning and tie ins to processor channels that were required to make optimum use of the Itanium with their NUMA architecture. Unfortunately, this was (just) before AMD came out with the Opteron 64. SGI's timing was just a bit off, as usual. Had they been just a bit later to market with the Altix, they might well be running AMD 64-bit processors today instead of the dead-end IA-64. As it was, SGI brought the Altix (neat machine, btw) to market just as industry was adopting the Opteron in preference to Itanium for 64-bit computing.
I am not aware of any obligations that SGI has for using Itanium processors in their systems, however. --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Nov 6, 2007 7:24 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Stafurik wrote: > > NM will have a supercomputer that will be free for in-state residents > > and businesses. The link below has the details, but to summarize: > > > > 1) 3,500 Intel quad-core Xeon processors with 28 terabytes memory > Huh, I thought SGI was obligated with Intel to use Itanium in all of its > computers.. (?) > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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