NEC dented that Unix dominance with its $4.6m TX7/i9510 system using 32 of Intel's new Itanium 2 processors. The Madison models are similar to their Itanium 2 "McKinley" predecessors, but will run at a higher clock speed and incorporate more high...
Though Unisys' 32-processor ES7000 server has been available with Windows for more than a year, the speed record Gates referred to was set by a new NEC server with 32 Itanium processors. Intel servers today use 32-bit processors such as Pentiums or...
In addition, it expects to release systems with 128 HP PA-RISC 8800 processors or 128 Intel Itanium processors in coming months. IBM's p690 Turbo Unix server, newly overhauled with faster processors and other components, posted a score of 681,000...
IBM's top-end p690 Regatta Unix server, which uses IBM's Power4 processor, bumped aside a Hewlett-Packard machine using Itanium for the top spot on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's widely watched TPC-C test.
Intel will on Tuesday offer a further glimpse into the future of its Itanium processor family, shining the spotlight on a new model code-named Poulson, silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com has learned.
HP's Integrity range of systems runs on the Intel Itanium line of processors. The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers.