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

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 12:57 -0700, IanMiller wrote:
> > 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.

Coincidentally, Titanic (with Kate Win"some") is being shown on British
TV tonight ;)
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