Elmer, Re: While Itanium is at the forefront of Intel's challenge to processors such as Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc and IBM's Power, it was Intel's comparatively lowly Xeon chip that helped Unisys achieve the sixth-highest score yet in a much-watched server speed test.
The ranking, posted Monday, is the second-highest an Intel server has achieved in the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C speed test. In addition, the Unisys system was the least expensive on the list at $2.7 million.
The Unisys system was able to score 234k TpmC with the 2.0GHz Xeon MP system, but NEC was able to score 309k TpmC with Itanium 2 using the same amount of processors. With more than a 30% lead over Xeon MP, I'm thinking that Itanium 2 is the one with the competitive edge.
Re: SGI, which focuses on the technical computing markets, plans in January to begin selling a 64-processor Itanium 2 sever running Linux that also can be partitioned
Looks like the flood gates are opening. IBM announced their systems last week, HP demoed their superdome implementation, and now SGI is getting ready for a 64-way system. Things are looking better for Itanium 2.
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