Re: [Linux-ia64] Itanium gets supercomputing software

Duraid Madina
2003-04-11T20:31:58Z

David,

Itanium 2 isn't even competitive with other offerings from your own
company. Compare:

David Mosberger wrote:
> Here is one real price point for an Itanium 2 workstation:
>
> - hp workstation zx2000 (Linux software enablement kit)
> - Intel? Itanium 2 900MHz Processor with 1.5MB on-chip L3 cache
> - 512MB Total PC2100 Registered ECC DDR 266 SDRAM Memory (2x256MB)
> - 40GB EIDE Hard Drive
> - NVIDIA Quadro2 EX
> - 10/100/1000BT LAN integrated
> - 16X Max DVD-ROM
> - Linux software enablement kit (not an operating system)
> - 3-year warranty, next-day, onsite hardware response, Mon - Fri, 8am - 5pm
> - $3,298

with:

- HP server rp2430
- 1xHP PA-8700 650MHz CPU with 2.25MB on-chip L1 cache
- 128MB Roughly-2GB/sec-God-Knows-What ECC Memory
- HP-UX 11i
- 1-year warranty, next-day onsite hardware response
- $1,095

(missing things like disk, a reasonable amount of RAM, etc can be
brought to the level of the Itanium system you quote for another $700 or
so - to see this config, go to www.e-solutions.hp.com, and try to buy an
rp2430 (HP part #A6889A))

I bought one of these, and it is excellent (if a little loud. ;) I
would happily buy a bare-bones Itanium 2 system at the same price. This
doesn't seem to like it's going to be possible any time soon. In less
than two weeks, I will be able to buy an Opteron system that runs a
great deal faster at the same price.

Good luck.

Duraid