Gilboa Davara wrote:
It remains to be seen.
I'm almost certain that the Titanic2 will outperform anything on this
planet in FPU performance.
But as long as Intel doesn't improve the ALU performance and bus
design, it'll continue to produce lackluster Integer and memory
performance, forcing Intel to further increase their already ridicules
L2/L3 cache size. (Which in turn, produces a huge core with lower
yields, shooting the Titanic's price into the "I sold my lungs for a
dual machine" range.)
Intel is currently losing money on the Itanium, and lots of it and
using the Xeon's huge profit margin to sustain it.
Never the less, the Itanium, though being a expensive-lack-luster
performance from day one, did do one thing: It killed off most of the
competition making room for the Xeon to become their main server CPU
design.
The biggest Irony is that the Itanium is improving, It's actually a
solid option for FPU intensive applications; However, now that Intel
has competition in the enterprise market, I wonder how much longer
they'll continue to finance this black-hole when they can no longer
artificially sustain such huge profit margins on the Xeon.
Gilboa
So I take it you would take Itanium for a computation cluster doing
fluid simulations, but not to a database server or a search engine. Right?
Shachar
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