From: "Adriano Galano" <adriano@satec.es>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Itanium gets supercomputing software
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:37:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705465@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705455@msgid-missing>
> >>>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:55:30 +1000, Duraid Madina
> <duraid@octopus.com.au> said:
>
> Duraid> You and I both know the only real barrier to Itanium
> Duraid> adoption is the price. Can anyone here shed some light on
> Duraid> this? Why is Itanium hardware still so expensive?
>
> Remember that Intel is targeting Itanium 2 against Power4 and SPARC.
> In that space, the price of Itanium 2 is very competitive.
>
What's mean very competitive? How it compare with Power* for example?
> Duraid> Seriously, IA64 must be the first architecture in history
> Duraid> where a software simulator is still being developed 4 years
> Duraid> after commercial availability of silicon (indeed, entire
> Duraid> systems).
>
> What's a software simulator got to do with anything? Certain things
> are easier to develop on a simulator, others are easier to develop on
> hardware. Nothing unique to IA64.
>
AMD's Opteron is in a simulator yet...
Regards,
--Adriano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 17:04 [Linux-ia64] Itanium gets supercomputing software Stephen Gaudet
2003-04-10 18:26 ` Grant Grundler
2003-04-10 20:55 ` Duraid Madina
2003-04-10 23:39 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-10 23:56 ` Randolph Chung
2003-04-10 23:58 ` Duraid Madina
2003-04-11 1:51 ` Bob Drzyzgula
2003-04-11 2:20 ` Matt Chapman
2003-04-11 8:37 ` Adriano Galano [this message]
2003-04-11 17:59 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-11 20:31 ` Duraid Madina
2003-04-11 20:42 ` Grant Grundler
2003-04-11 20:46 ` Stephen Gaudet
2003-04-11 20:55 ` Duraid Madina
2003-04-11 21:25 ` Grant Grundler
2003-04-11 21:35 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-11 22:36 ` Van Maren, Kevin
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