[Linux-ia64] Itanium gets supercomputing software
davidm at napali.hpl.hp.com
Thu Apr 10 19:39:46 EDT 2003
>>>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:55:30 +1000, Duraid Madina <duraid at octopus.com.au> said:
Duraid> You and I both know the only real barrier to Itanium
Duraid> adoption is the price. Can anyone here shed some light on
Duraid> this? Why is Itanium hardware still so expensive?
Remember that Intel is targeting Itanium 2 against Power4 and SPARC.
In that space, the price of Itanium 2 is very competitive.
Duraid> Seriously, IA64 must be the first architecture in history
Duraid> where a software simulator is still being developed 4 years
Duraid> after commercial availability of silicon (indeed, entire
What's a software simulator got to do with anything? Certain things
are easier to develop on a simulator, others are easier to develop on
hardware. Nothing unique to IA64.
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