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To: Scumbria who wrote (93193)	2/15/2000 2:42:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571602

Scumbria, <VLIW instruction sets present new hazards to programmers. Assembly code is not practical, and low level debug is extremely complicated.> But hey, Transmeta has Linus "Linux-God" Torvalds on their side! ;-) Speaking of which, how practical is hand-optimizing assembly code these days anyway, even on RISC and/or CISC? I'm sure it's still done in some critical areas, but I'm almost positive Intel will have tools that can help hand-optimize critical sections in IA-64 code. Low-level debug? What do you mean specifically? I'll bet low-level debug is pretty tough on modern-day x86 code already. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (93193)	2/15/2000 3:07:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1571602

SCUMbria - Re: "IA-64 presents some additional challenges to software development. VLIW instruction sets present new hazards to programmers. Assembly code is not practical, and low level debug is extremely complicated." Looks like SGI has some decent compiler developers that could handle the VLIW work. "SGI Demonstrates High-Performance Itanium Processor Compilers at Intel Forum SGI's C, C++ and Fortran 90 compilers use the company's high-performance code generators designed to produce substantially higher performance in both compute- and data-intensive applications. Also to be released with these compilers is SGI's OpenMP(TM), an industry-standard application program interface that allows programmers to quickly and easily design shared-memory parallel applications. " Paul {====================================} newsalert.com February 14, 2000 09:18 SGI Demonstrates High-Performance Itanium Processor Compilers at Intel Forum Technology to Enhance Linux Application Performance to Be Released to Open Source Community INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI) today will demonstrate the power of its high-performance compilers applied to a number of technical applications on the Intel(R) Itanium(TM) processor. These compilers, debuted at Intel's Spring 2000 Developer Forum in Palm Springs, California February 14-17, provide Linux developers with the potential to deliver a 30%-100% performance increase on applications using the power of the Itanium processor over that of a standard compiler implementation. This technology translates into significant cost benefits to the end user and is another important step in establishing Linux as a commercially viable platform. SGI also announced today its intent to release these compilers to the Open Source Software Community. The applications demonstrated today are part of SGI's rapidly growing Itanium processor-based software portfolio. The company currently has agreements to port over 30 applications in SGI's core technical areas of research, chemistry/biology and manufacturing to the Itanium processor. "The Itanium processor's excellent floating point performance and highly parallel execution capabilities enable a tremendous opportunity for high performance compute environments," said Stephen L. Smith, vice president and general manager, IA-64 Processor Division, Intel. "SGI's expertise in high-performance computing combined with the power of the Itanium processor provides an excellent solution for technical developers." "SGI firmly believes that the Itanium processor will be rapidly adopted by software vendors and individual programmers in not only the research but also the technical and creative computing markets," said Beau Vrolyk, senior vice president, Computer Systems Business Unit, SGI. "We are very excited about applying our engineering talent to optimize its potential. To that end, we are working closely with Intel and the developer community, as we intend to be ahead of the curve as the Itanium processor rolls out." SGI's C, C++ and Fortran 90 compilers use the company's high-performance code generators designed to produce substantially higher performance in both compute- and data-intensive applications. Also to be released with these compilers is SGI's OpenMP(TM), an industry-standard application program interface that allows programmers to quickly and easily design shared-memory parallel applications. SOURCE SGI /CONTACT: Ginny Babbitt of SGI, 650-933-2527, or ginnib@corp.sgi.com/ /Company News On-Call: prnewswire.com or fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 795806/ /Web site: sgi.com