[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

[JF Mezei]

John Reagan wrote:
> http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT111710021604


Under Compaq, Digital continued to make Alpha presentations extoling its
bright future and stating that the IA64 was a bloated architecture going
nowhere right up until June 25 2001.

The fact that some scientist at Intel will make some presentation on
plans for Poulson does not indicarte to me any type of commitment to the
architecture.

Poulson, like Tukwila, is likely to be delayed (especiually if they redo
much of it) and it arrives late to the market, it will be an also-ran
compared to more actively developped architectures like the 8086.

It makes no bsuiness sense for HP/Intel to continue to spend money on an
architecture which gives neither of them any strategic advantage over
what can be achieved with the 64 bit 8086.

Just checked the "top 500 supercomputers" november rankings.
http://www.top500.org/list/2010/11/100

While the news media speak of China's rise in that list (it is now #1),
I have not spotted a single IA64 Itanium entry in the top 500. I may
have made a mistake, not there was none that was quite visible.  HP has
a number of systems, but they are all based on the 8086.

Opteron and Xeon seem to be the most widely used.

So, they abandonned low end workstations in 2004 saying they would focus
on HPC. But now, it appears they don't figure in the who's who list of
HPC systems. What market is left for IA64 ?