<font color=orange>Dell's Itanium-based PowerEdge Demo (INTEL)
Posted By Brian Neal
Monday, August 14, 2000 - 2:46:49 PM
According to this article, Dell will demonstrate a prototype Itanium server running RedHat Linux next week at Linuxworld.
The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker will show a prototype PowerEdge Server based on a 64-bit Itanium processor from Intel and running a version of Linux from Red Hat. The server will be shown accessing IBM's DB2 database and running mySAP.com, SAP AG's suite of Internet-enabled electronic-business software, the person said.
The demonstration will be offered Monday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo taking place in San Jose, California. Michael Dell, Dell's chairman and chief executive officer, is due to deliver the opening keynote speech at LinuxWorld on Tuesday morning.
Dell isn't the only one showing off Linux on its servers, however, Compaq will demo Linux-based varients of its Proliant line of x86-servers and will likely have some Alpha systems running the operating system as well (Compaq has been touting Linux on Alpha for some time). It will be interesting to see how these established servers stack up to the Itantium-based PowerEdge. As we know, Itanium has suffered constant delays over the past seven years it has been in development, and most recently the chip was pushed back aceshardware.com to the first half of 2001. The company is apparently having a great deal of trouble ramping the chip to its target clock frequency of 800 MHz, with the fastest development systems running at 600 MHz. Additionally, Microsoft is not yet ready with its 64-bit port of Windows, which is responsible for some of the delay.
zdnet.com
Intel Delays Itanium (INTEL)
Posted By Brian Neal
Wednesday, July 19, 2000 - 3:24:54 PM
Thanks to Jeff and others who wrote in about Intel's Itanium Delay. The company has pushed back the 64-bit chip's introduction from the third quarter of this year to the fourth.
Although Intel said it will soon begin shipping Itanium to customers for use in "pilot installations," Otellini said revenue shipments of the new processor won't begin until the fourth quarter.
"We expect our customers to be offering general availability of system hardware, operating systems and application solutions over the first half of 2001," he said.
As reported earlier, Intel has had many difficulties with its first generation 64-bit processor. Clock-speed ramping has been one reported problem, with most Itaniums yielding under 800 MHz, the chip's target frequency. While Intel has denied some of these reports, they have delayed the chip anyway.
Educating isn't it?
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