[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[dave]

jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>Well, they aren't exactly just sitting around.  My understanding is that
>the main hope for a good compiler rests on SGI having taken the MIPSpro
>compiler and stripped out the MIPS backend, then donated it as open
>source, while both SGI and Intel and paying money to a chinese
>university to develop this compiler for Itanium.  

So what percentage of theoretical peak performance are the
current compilers wringing out of it? I've never seen a
number for that.

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