Microsoft to skip Itanium with supercomputing Windows
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Microsoft Corp. will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for high performance computing (HPC) next year, leaving support for Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 for a later, undefined date.
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Retrofitting SP2 to Windows 98 or Windows NT simply would not make much sense, argues Yankee Group&#39;s Laura DiDio. Both operating systems are eight years old, and the PC and Internet worlds were much different places then.
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Microsoft Corp. does not plan to change its per-processor software licensing model when hardware containing dual-core and multicore processor technology for the Windows platform becomes available next year.
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HP (Quote, Chart) is doing a lot of explaining after it revealed this weekend that it will no longer put Itanium processors in its high-performance workstations.
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Intel has introduced a third-generation Itanium 2 into the market, but Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has noted that its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition will not run on servers with the chip.
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NEW YORK, September 1 (New Ratings) - Microsoft (MSFT.NAS) reportedly intends to ship Longhorn, its next version of Windows operating system, without WinFS, the next-generation file system.
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HP announced that it will discontinue the use of Intel Itanium microprocessors due to the limited demand in the market from its customers.
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Ziff Davis - Silicon Graphics Inc. will ship a new ultra high performance Intel Itanium-based Linux workstation designed for scientific and medical applications.
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Forget about finding the next Microsoft. You'll do better by looking at what others don't want.
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HP says it is still committed to the Itanium processor, but it has decided to stop equipping workstations with the chip, due to demand for processors that run in both 32- and 64-bit environments.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. are parting ways on the development of the Itanium chip for server computers, ending a more than 10-year partnership on a project that has produced far less
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A new supercomputer named Columbia has claimed the title of world&#39;s fastest. The computer, built by Silicon Graphics for NASA at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, includes 10,240 Itanium
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Printer and PC maker Hewlett-Packard Co.  will stop offering desktop workstations based on Intel Corp.'s  Itanium microprocessor, The Wall Street Journal reported on its online edition.
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Cancels release of desktop chip in shift away from megahertz towards cache tweaks to improve processor performance.
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Intel allies Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have some good and bad news for the chipmaker's Itanium 2 processor family.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp.'s decision to begin shipping versions of x86 processors that are capable of 64-bit computing has slowed down the adoption of the company's high-end Itanium processors, a senior executive acknowledged Tuesday during a question and answer session at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco.
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Intel on Monday is expected to detail Tukwila, its next generation of 64-bit Itanium processors that are used in enterprise servers.The new processor, due for release by the end of 2008, has a quad-core design that doubles the performance of systems with&#160;Intel&#39;s Itanium 9100 dual-core processors, said Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel.Tukwila will be detailed during a session&#160;at the International Solid State Circuits Conference&#160;in San Francisco this week.The processor will run at up to 2GHz and include the QuickPath Interconnect system architecture with an integrated memory controller for improved communication links between system components, Rattner said. The architecture, different from Intel&#39;s x86 architecture, is designed to support data-intensive applications. The processor works with Unix, Linux and Windows Server OS software.The boost in performance provided by Tukwila will be an upgrade for the set of developers writing applications for Itanium processors, which are targeted at vertical markets with data-intensive applications, like data warehousing, said Richard Doherty, director of analyst firm The Envisioneering Group.The QuickPath Interconnect architecture will also be part of Nehalem, Intel&#39;s next-generation x86 processor due out later in 2008. In the first public demonstration of the&#160;Nehalem processor&#160;at Intel Developer Forum at San Francisco last year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said QuickPath Interconnect helps Nehalem deliver better performance-per-watt and better system performance.The Tukwila architecture will include 30MB of on-die cache, a 10 percent increase over the current Itanium. It will also include dual-integrated memory controllers, Rattner said.Tukwila is targeted at servers running enterprise applications, so the design includes an advanced RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) feature to reduce data corruption and ensure reliable system performance, Rattner said. Advanced RAS features correct errors that may occur when data is being crunched on a processor.The system is built on a record number of transistors, Rattner said. &quot;To our knowledge, that&#39;s the first 2 billion transistor [microprocessor],&quot; he said.The Tukwila processor will be manufactured using the 65-nanometer process technology. Intel will skip the 45-nanometer process and jump to the 32-nanometer for the Tukwila processor upgrade, code-named Poulson, said Susan Tauzer, director of Itanium marketing at Intel. No release date was provided for Poulson.Intel is working closely with Microsoft, Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard, and other key OS, system and application vendors on the delivery of Tukwila systems, Tauzer said.