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

[IanMiller]

On May 26, 11:57 pm, Wendell <wendel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

The HP-UX C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers do not use the Intel compiler
backend. The OpenVMS FORTRAN compilers are not dependent on Intel
compiler technology either.
HP will continue to support HP-UX and OpenVMS compilers for FORTRAN
and C/C++ on I64.