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Queen's University Belfast Introduces Improvements Across the Board With Intel Technology
White Papers In order to improve the facilities available to students and researchers, and advance its academic reputation, Queen's University Belfast has initiated the migration of all administrative, academic and business applications to an Intel Itanium 2...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Intel accelerates Itanium schedule
News Intel has changed the release schedule for its Itanium chips for servers, adding a new chip for 2004 and moving the launch date of an Itanium with two separate processors to 2005 from 2007. I think they are going to sell it that way to make it cost...
[January 16, 2003, 8:16]
sx2000 Chipset
White Papers The chipset, used in the latest HP Integrity high-end and midrange servers supports the Intel Itanium 2 processors and provides a foundation for future Itanium 2 processors ("Montecito" and "Montvale").
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
HP gives Itanium the boot
News Hewlett-Packard, one of the most aggressive promoters of Intel's Itanium family of processors, is dropping its line of workstations that use the chips. The decision by the computing giant will likely be interpreted as a large symbolic blow to...
[September 27, 2004, 9:40]
Dedicated Windows OS for 64-bit AMD
News In March, Microsoft released both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 to PC manufacturers for Intel chips, including the Xeon and Itanium 2. It also released a 64-bit version of Windows XP for Itanium 2 workstations.
[April 9, 2003, 15:16]
Accelerating One of the World's Fastest Databases
White Papers The MySQL AB engineers wanted to identify performance bottlenecks and also areas of optimization concern for MySQL database running on the latest Pentium 4 and Itanium 2 processor-based systems. The MySQL AB engineers benchmarked code compiled by...
[December 14, 2004, 23:00]
Intel to boost single-core performance
News Intel plans to increase the performance of individual cores in the Itanium processor, and not just increase the number of cores to it, says an Intel engineer. Speaking at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo held in Singapore on Tuesday, Cameron...
[October 3, 2007, 14:03]
Intel puts new server chips on roadmap
News Abhi Talwalkar, who earlier this year replaced Mike Fister as general manager of the Enterprise Platforms Group, revealed more details about the Montecito dual-core Itanium 2 processor for multi-processor (MP) platforms.
[September 8, 2004, 12:45]
Linux supercomputer to simulate space for NASA
News SGI said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to integrate 20 512-processor SGI Altix systems using Intel's Itanium 2 processors. The NASA agreement also further cements the role of Itanium 2 processors in the high-performance...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
HP boosts Red Hat's Itanium push
News Hewlett-Packard's strong backing for Intel's Itanium processor line has accelerated Red Hat's plans to create a version of its flagship Advanced Server Linux for the high-end chip family. Red Hat sells a version of the Linux operating system for...
[June 27, 2002, 11:35]
Intel's latest Itanium tipped to upset server market
News Today's gung-ho attitudes about Itanium are a stark contrast to the past, when delays, a weak economy and a lack of compatible software combined to curtail enthusiasm and sales. Madison, the third member of the Itanium chip family, is Intel's best...
[June 30, 2003, 7:47]
Oracle Database 10g on 64-Bit Linux: Ready for Enterprise-Class Computing
White Papers Intel, RedHat and Oracle have worked closely together to enhance Linux to enable companies to deploy large-scale configurations using the latest version of Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, with RedHat Linux 3.0 running on 64-bit systems based...
[July 1, 2004, 3:00]
Tech giants prep high-powered databases
News Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland, is transitioning from a four-processor server to two single-processor Itanium 2 machines to run its Oracle e-business application suite. Oracle says it will be the first out of the gate when it...
[December 13, 2002, 8:32]
Intel uplifted by new chip plans
News Itanium, part two The Itanium 2 is the successor to Intel's current 800MHz Itanium server chip and the second chip to use the company's 64-bit technology. Some of the specifics he outlined were plans for a number of new processors, including the...
[April 26, 2002, 8:34]
64-bit Itanium to land this month
News It's been a long, strange trip, but the first servers and workstations containing Intel's Itanium chip will start to hit the market in a few weeks at prices a bit lower than expected. Still, there won't be lot of Itanium computers to choose from.
[May 11, 2001, 13:59]
SQL Server 64-bit undercuts RISC rivals
News However, Microsoft has been quietly creeping up the rankings, and last month a pre-launch version of 64-bit SQL Server reached number 2 in the non-clustered TPC-C benchmark performance table running on an NEC Itanium 2 mainframe.
[April 14, 2003, 11:18]
Dual-core Itanium finally ready
News Intel will launch its "Montecito" version of Itanium, the first dual-core version of the processor, on 18 July, sources familiar with the event said. But the Montecito chips, to be called the Itanium 2 9000 series, will fit in better with Intel's...
[July 10, 2006, 10:30]
Intel's 'Madison' to make first appearance
News Server makers Unisys and NEC are expected to provide the first public demonstrations of "Madison", Intel's third-generation Itanium processor, at Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) on Monday. That importance is elevated for the Itanium line, an unproven...
[September 9, 2002, 8:06]
SGI claims supercomputing victory
News But using Intel processors has given the company's equipment a boost, said Walt Brooks, division chief of NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Center -- the Itanium machines are six times faster than the SGI models they replace.
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
Intel plans supercomputing push
News Along with the announcement of the research effort, called the Advanced Computing Program, Intel will discuss how Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is erecting a cluster, code-named Thunder, that will contain 3,840 1.4GHz, 4MB Itanium 2...
[November 17, 2003, 12:20]
