[rescue] Itanium 2

[Shawn Wallbridge]

IBM was going to give us a loaner, but the rep said we would be better off
waiting for teh second generation IBM machine (not Itanium 2). He was saying
that all of the first Itanium boxes were almost identical (reference
designs) and the next model IBM came out with would be an IBM design and
would have more features.

I think the price on it was about $70k CAN for a quad 800 or something. We
could use the 64bit memory addressing, so it would be nice to have one, but
we haven't heard back from them yet.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Joshua D Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:34 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Itanium 2


On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:28:32PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On June 5, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > I still wish I could get my hands on a regular itanium.  It is
> > supposed to be a lot less brain dead than IA-32.
> >
> > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/04/020604hnintelchip.xml
> >
> > But anyway, with the Itanium2, it looks like everything is going to be
> > at least a 2 way SMP setup.
>
>   Uh-huh.  I wonder if it's going to fail as miserably as the Itanium.

Well, they aren't doing enough to get unix people behind them, and MS
seems to have pretty much abandoned them, so possibly.

I don't hear of too many people using Itaniums.  I know that jahshaka
team has one, but they don't seem to be turning out much.

--
Joshua D. Boyd