[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Joshua D Boyd]

These are maspar boxs though, based on the Origin line.
http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

They claim it is a major performer, apparently per CPU faster than their
MIPS chips.

My understanding is that supposedly Itanium2s are still hamstrung by
poor compilers.  GCC absolutely sucks, and I'm told that Intel's own
compiler isn't much better in this case (hence why they are sponsering a
new free compiler being developed in China).

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Joshua D. Boyd