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Microsoft’s Itanium, Server Decisions Hint at Business Shift

April 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium chip in its server architecture, along with terminating future development of its Essential Business Server, suggests that the company is attempting to shift its server business to take advantage of what it sees as developments in both the processor architecture and cloud computing space. At the same time, its moves in the consumer space, including the brutal elimination of several legacy products and the upcoming release of several new ones, suggest a parallel streamlining of its products.
– Microsofts recent decision to end support for Intels Itanium chip in its server
architecture, along with the elimination of its Essential Business Server (EBS)
development, suggests that the company is trying to reposition to take
advantage of several developing business IT trends, including virt…

Microsoft to End Intel Itanium Support

April 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Citing the high-end scalability and reliability of new x86 chips from Intel and AMD, Microsoft plans to end support for Intel’s Itanium processors after the current versions of Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio. The announcement comes days after Intel launched its eight-core Xeon 7500 chips and AMD unveiled its 12-core Opteron 6000 platform.
– Days after Intel and Advanced Micro Devices launched new
high-end x86 chips that drive the architecture higher up the server chain,
Microsoft officials announced they are ending support for Intel’s Itanium chip
in their server software.
In an April 2 post on the Windows
Server blog, Dan Reger, …

New Intel Itanium Offers Greater Performance, Memory Capacity

February 8th, 2010 | No Comments

It may be two years late, but Intel’s Itanium processor code-named Tukwila offers twice the number of cores as the current version code-named Montecito, with significant upgrades in memory and network bandwidth, features it shares with Intel’s high-end Xeon server chip, and greater virtualization capabilities. The Itanium 9300 series comes as IBM is rolling out four new Power7-based servers and Oracle is integrating Sun into its business.
– It took a little longer than expected, but Intel officials have finally
released quot;Tukwila, quot; the next-generation Itanium processor that offers
significant advances in performance and scalability and a host of features that
improve everything from virtualization capabilities to reliabilit…

IntelÂ® ItaniumÂ® 9300 Processor Raises Bar for Scalable, Resilient Mission-Critical Computing

February 8th, 2010 | No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2010 – Intel Corporation today introduced the Itanium® processor 9300 series, previously codenamed “Tukwila,” which delivers more than double the performance of its predecessor, boosts scalability and adds reliability features to the Itanium platform that is already running mission-critical applications for 80 percent of the Global 100 corporations.

Intel Ships Tukwila Itanium Chip

February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

After multiple delays, Intel has started revenue shipping of its much anticipated Â“TukwilaÂ” Itanium processor, which Intel officials say doubles the performance of the current Â“MontecitoÂ” chip. The official launch is expected Feb. 8. The news comes as IBM prepares to release its Power7 chip later this year, and as both Intel and AMD get ready to launch other server processors.
– Intel is finally shipping the much delayed Â“Tukwila,Â” the latest generation of its high-end Itanium processor.
In a blog posting Feb. 2, Intel officials said the company had begun
revenue shipments of the quad-core Tukwila, which they said more than
doubles the performance of the current Â“Monteci…

Chip Shot: Itanium “Tukwila” Now Gaining Revenue; Q1 Launch Expected

February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

“Tukwila,” the code name for the newest Itanium processor, has begun revenue shipments. The most advanced Itanium processor yet, “Tukwila” more than doubles the performance of its predecessor and adds a range of new scalability, reliability, and virtualization features. Eighty percent of the Global 100 companies already use Itanium-based servers. The launch of this Itanium mission-critical processor is part of a major push Intel is making into the server processor arena, with several announcements slated for the first half of the year.

Chip Shot: SGI’s Itanium Altix 4700 Sets Three SPEC Records

September 10th, 2009 | No Comments

An SGI® Altix® 4700 platform, powered by the Intel® Itanium® Processor 9040 (1.6GHz), set three SPEC benchmark world records at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Germany. SGI used a single-system image (SSI) node with 1024 Itanium cores, 4TB of memory and Novell’s SuSE Linux® Enterprise 10 operating environment to achieve record-breaking results on SPECjbb2005, SPECint_rate_base2006 and SPECfp_rate_base2006 benchmarks.

SGI CEO Clarifies Itanium Stance

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Days after SGI officials said the next-generation Altix system dubbed Â“UltravioletÂ” would be powered by Intels upcoming Xeon Â“Nehalem EXÂ” chips, SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea said in a blog that the company will continue developing systems powered by Itanium, and that Ultraviolet will support both Xeon and Itanium processors. However, the first Ultraviolet systems will be powered by Intel’s eight-core Nehalem EX chips.
– SGI might be building a new high-end Altix system powered by Intels upcoming Â“Nehalem EXÂ” chips, but that doesnt mean the company is abandoning Itanium, according to SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea.
In a blog post July 24, Barrenechea said that SGI will continue supporting and developing systems that run …

SGI CEO Clarifies Itanium Stance

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

SGI Continues Push into HPC, but Without Itanium

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Two months after Rackable Systems closed the deal to buy the old SGI, officials with the new SGI are touting a product road map that shows a future not only for Rackable servers, but also for the legacy SGI hardware. SGI officials also are saying both Rackable hardware and legacy SGI hardware are attractive to the HPC space. However, the next-generation high-end Altix system, code-named Ultraviolet, will be powered not by Itanium processors but by Intel’s upcoming processors code-named Nehalem EX.
– When Rackable Systems closed its $42.5 million acquisition of Silicon
Graphics Inc. in May, officials touted the new company as one that could play a
significant role not only in the data center, but also in the supercomputing
space.
Two months later, officials with the new SGI now
Silicon Grap…