[Info-vax] Itanic is a dead end : IBM

[Wendell]

On May 26, 12:57 pm, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)"
<a... at nonymous.com> wrote:
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/229700037?cid...
>
> IBM's senior VP for Systems and Technology, in an interview.
> "I do believe there is a dead-end for Itanium."
> ....
> Intel disagrees:...

Actually, it seems that some part of Intel does agree. I've noticed
that the Intel Fortran compiler no longer supports IA-64; version 11.1
was the last to do so.

That surprised me and I'd like to hear the story behind it. As I
heard, scientific computation was the one area where Itanium's unique
architecture was put to effective use. If HPC was really a success
story for EPIC, I would expect Fortran compilers (especially from
Intel!) to target the IA-64 for as long as there were machines in use.