Paul,
Tony & Intel Investors - Intel's Position on Merced - a PRODUCTION CPU
Thanks for the article. That's what Jim Carlson, Marketing Director for HP 's WS/Server Division has been saying. Who cares what the naysayers come out with, it's Jim's job to tell it like it is.
Silicon Graphics Inc. plans to build a 512-way Merced
implementation, he added.
There's your Cray replacement. Adam ought to get one of these to play with!
Curry declined to reveal the Merced's final performance specifications or clock speed. He did say,
however, that the chip will process 6 gigaflops (6 billion single-precision floating point operations per
second), or 3 Gflops when processing double-precision floating-point calculations.
Thats equivalent to several mainframes on a chip. However, the mainframe MIPs, or thousands of MIPs, are measured with benchmarks that simulate real workloads. I'm not sure how Merced or other microprocessor MIPs are measured. Now that Intel does have a chip that processes up in the mainframe and Sun Starfire region, they ought to come out with some comparison factors. Of course, they have done some of this with these statements:
Curry said the Merced will be competitive with the latest PA-RISC, is faster than Sun Microsystems Inc.'s
UltraSparc-III, and will outperform the 64-bit Alpha chip marketed by Alpha Processor Inc.
Merced continues to look all good at Intel. Keep it going, guys and gals.
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