Tony - I know this was posted yesterday but I saw little discussion about it. It once more goes to show that computing in the future will need to be judged by a different set of standards compared to the old computing model. Nonetheless, I'm sure that Itanium will probably be criticized for not running old applications as fast as some pundits expect, again completely missing the significance of what's coming.... If it doesn't run word faster it must be useless....
Intel Itanium Processor Shows Dramatic e-Commerce Security Performance
RSA CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2001 -- Intel Corporation announced today that the Intel® Itanium™ processor shows a significant increase in security transaction performance measured against competitive offerings, as verified in independent lab findings.
"The lack of speed and reliability in security is one of the roadblocks to large-scale adoption of e-Commerce," said Mike Fister, vice president and general manager, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group, in a keynote address here. "Today's news confirms that Intel's Itanium architecture delivers the performance to enable scalable and protected e-Business transactions."
In a document published by Cordiant, the 800 MHz Itanium processor showed a greater than 10 fold advantage in processing secure transactions over existing, RISC-based processors. For example, a server configured with four Itanium processors performed more than 1,376 security transactions without hardware acceleration, compared to 114 transactions achieved on a comparably configured Sun Enterprise 420R system.
"Itanium processor-based systems achieve the best 4-processor security performance results we have ever seen in our labs," said Eric Packman, chief technology officer, Coradiant.
Designed to address the requirements of high-end servers and workstations, the Itanium processor is the first in a family of 64-bit processors from Intel, and the most significant new development in Intel microprocessor architecture since the 32-bit 386 processor was introduced in 1985. Platform release of the Itanium processor is expected later this quarter, with initial deployments from several server and workstation manufacturers.
The Itanium processor's floating point performance, 64-bit addressing, large cache, and high bandwidth bus are well suited for the high performance servers and workstations used in e-Commerce security and transaction processing, large databases and data-mining, mechanical design, and scientific and technical computing applications.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. |
