The result nearly doubles the previous top score for a non-clustered Windows server, a Unisys ES7000 server with 32 Intel Xeon processors. NEC dented that Unix dominance with its $4.6m TX7/i9510 system using 32 of Intel's new Itanium 2 processors.
In the next few months, SGI will come out with its first Itanium 2 computers. Life sciences has become one of the more active scientific computing markets. In September, for instance, IBM formed an alliance with life sciences giant Applera to...
Microsoft also signed off the final code for SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, which, like the new version of Windows XP, handles 64-bit instructions and is designed for Itanium 2 processors. Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003 is designed for...
Intel hopes Itanium will push aside IBM's Power processors and Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc processors. Hewlett-Packard has sold 90 dual-processor Itanium 2 machines to the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden's largest engineering school, for use...
The Utah-based company's product costs $999 for systems with as many as four Itanium 2 processors and includes a one-year subscription to SCO's software update service. SCO Group, which recently gained notoriety for a Linux-related lawsuit it filed...
HP is betting that its servers with Intel's Itanium processors - in particular, the dual-core Montecito chip scheduled to arrive in 2005 - will beat out IBM's. HP followed suit with its 64-processor Superdome models, which initially used the...