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Hewlett-Packard Co.(HP) last month fired the latest salvo into an already heated high-end computing space with Intel's release of Madison, its newest 64-bit Itanium processor.
The new 64-bit processors will fall under the new "Integrity" brand, the Palo, Alto, Calif. company said, which includes the HP Integrity Superdome system, Itanium 2 workstations, and planned enhancements to the ProLiant server line.
The third generation Intel Itanium processors - and the speed and cache gains that come along with it - are expected to lend weight to the argument that 64-bit processor architectures have overcome past performance and poor reception.
HP's high-end server strategy has lined its horses fully in front of the Itanium cart; Mississauga, Ont.-based Steve Shaw, business development manager for business critical systems at HP Canada, noted that HP's Integrity strategy is to slowly phase out the PA-RISC and Alpha chips within the next two years.
In Itanium's corner is that it supports Windows and Linux as well as HP-UX. HP has also said it has allied with ISVs to optimize application performance on the Itanium 2 architecture and tier-one Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), adding that ISV codes are ported, optimized and released on HP Integrity...