Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[HailMary]

HailMary, that isn't the way most developers work. If, some day, effective IPF graphics workstations are sucessfully targetted towards CAD and similar markets, then those workers will have an IPF machine to run their specialized programs and an AMD64 PC (or laptop) to run everything else.

IT departments are trying hard to consolidate the number of architectures and systems they support.

A couple of years back, I used to have access to Solaris, HP-UX, Alpha, and x86 (solaris and windows), but now everything is Linux, Linux, Linux on x86 with a few exceptions. IPF could be one of those few exception workstations where you run the specialized program. My point was IPF won't be the broad base use workstation until all the primary apps needed can run on it.

Why would IT buy an IPF machine to get a 25% benefit for 1 or 2 applications and another Linux x86 machine for everything else, when they could buy one Opteron machine to cover everything with general great performance and save money and resources at the same time?