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Nope. I have a friend at a tier2 (one that's done a lot of Itanium HPC business, actually). There may be links out there, try google.

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EDIT: This information is about 6 months old. The point is that Intel is most definitely in the business of assembling and testing Itanium 2 systems, and for a period of time, the only thing non-HP vendors could buy were these barebones Intel-assembled bundles.