Yes, agreed. I think Itanium is a great "enterprise class" CPU, but its expensive and I think x86_64 is a better alternative!
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:52 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] OT cluster or separate machines? On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 at 9:11am, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote > Out of curiousity, do those folks have any experience in using them? We > have found that they tend to get slagged by people with no experience in > using them - but they are very nice, fast and powerful CPUs. I have heard some folks say that in certain niche apps, yes, they can be nice. As you can probably guess from my address and .sig, however, I live at the intersection of academia and HPC, where price/performance is king. And I've seen no evidence that Itanium can play in that ballpark. A brief grep through the beowulf mailing list archives, e.g., shows the volume of x86/x86_64 posts dominating that of ia64. I don't see the market ever going in the direction Intel wanted it to when they were flogging Itanium and stubbornly refusing to even acknowledge x86_64. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
