HP yesterday released HP-UX 11iv2, the latest version of its Unix operating system, for Itanium 2 servers and workstations. The chip is similar to the Itanium 2, formerly code-named McKinley, and will fit into the same computers.
Most Itanium systems use HP's version of Unix (HP-UX) but they can also run Linux, Windows and HP's OpenVMS operating system. At this point, Itanium seems to have built a large enough ecosystem, at least in an HP-UX context, to support virtually...
Managing multiple operating systems is important for HP, because its Itanium servers can simultaneously run Windows, Linux and HP-UX, which means that the company doesn't have to design as many different types of computers.
Company executives detailed the major new enhancements in the operating system, including a new file system code-named ZFS; a more fine-grained security model for establishing access privileges; "predictive self-healing" software to prevent...
The approach also allows AMD to use the same chip for both the desktop and server markets, unlike Intel, which sells the Pentium line for 32-bit desktop PCs and the Itanium for 64-bit servers. AMD said that the new Athlon XP chips, based on a core...
That chip, code-named Montecito, will more than double performance over the current "Madison" generation of Itanium processors, Intel has said. A coming version of Windows Server 2003 called R2 is geared for smaller servers and won't support...
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