#itanium

SGI Prism (2005)

Prism was one of the SGI’s visualization (ccNUMA) super-computers based on Itanium 2 processors. The high-end configuration (Extreme) supported up to 256 CPUs, 6.1TB of system memory and 16 graphics cards (AMD FirePro). Unlike MIPS-based systems, this was preinstalled with SGI Advanced Linux Environment.

Fun with Intel Itanium

It might be surprising for somebody, but Itanium-based systems are still being used today. You cannot see them in a form of a standard office PC though. They are hidden in large datacenters, doing some serious stuff running on HP-UX or OpenVMS.

I have one HP Integrity BL860c i2 blade server (manufactured in 2010) in our lab and there was recently some time to play with it a bit. I played a lot with HP-UX before (even with PA-RISC machines) so the obvious next step was to install the last version of Windows Server for Itanium. It has a built-in x86 emulator written by guys from Intel and it is possible to transparently run standard 32bit x86 applications along with native ones. It is not very different from current ARM-based Windows devices.

Some simple emulated applications can achieve 50-70% of CPU performance. However, other applications (especially those with GUI) are super-slow. It takes ages to load a web page in emulated Firefox. The quad-core 1.33-GHz Itanium 9320 received only 0.38 pts in the Cinebench R11.5 multi-threaded test (32bit x86, 8 threads). That is similar to a single core of a five years old in-order Intel Atom processor.

It was expected to access Windows Server 2008 (R2) for Itanium no other way than using RDP. Therefore, there is literally no graphics acceleration implemented in the ATI driver (the chip is based on the ATI Radeon 7000 core).

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Неисправные 64-битные процессоры Intel Itanium умирают еще раз после прекращения поддержки Linux

PC Magazine September 25, 2001

Save the date: Itanium will finally die at the end of 2025

Intel’s Itanium family of processors for enterprise servers has spent the better part of a decade as contractually undead. The platform has experienced practically negative enthusiasm for most of its existence, and is commonly derisively referred to as “Itanic.” But Itanium’s slow march toward its eventual demise officially began Thursday, with Intel announcing that shipments of Itanium…

إطلاق وحدات المُعالجة المركزية لسلسلة Itanium 9700 من Intel

Itanium هو أحد المشاريع الضخمة التي كانت تعمل عليها Intel، حيث إن هذا المُعالج مُصمَّم بسعة قدرها 64 بت، ومُتزامن مع شركة Hewlett Packard.

ويرجع السبب الرئيسي في أن Itanium يعتمد تشغيل HP-Ux وينافس الأسماء الضخمة مثل “أوراكل” هو استخدام مجموعة تعليمات IA-64 الجديدة.

واليوم، يُعتبر حدثًا تاريخيًّا، حيث تم الإفراج عن البديل النهائي المعروف من “إيتانيوم”، وهي سلسلة 9700، وذلك بعد إجراء التجارب…

Itanium servers sing swan-song

New chip out soon which might be the last HPE has announced that it will ship the high-end Itanium servers in the second half of the year, and the chi...