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To: Paul Engel who wrote (104926)6/26/2000 10:44:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Paul, <The ITanium will be very competitive with the Alpha in all floating point applications.>

Merely competitive? I'm guessing that with two full FMAC units (able to do four double-precision ops or eight single-precision ops in one clock), 128 FP registers, and a superior EPIC architecture (especially since FP code should be easier to optimize than integer code), Itanium-based workstations will exceed the floating-point performance of Alpha Wildfire-based workstations.

But without actual Itanium benchmark results available, we'll just have to assume the worst, just like RatbertRynd is doing.

Tenchusatsu



To: Paul Engel who wrote (104926)6/26/2000 11:06:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Paul - RE: "By the way - when was the last time Alpha had a design win outside of Compaq?"

Network Appliance. The Alpha is the processor that powers their filers. DownSouth on the NTAP thread said NetApp started off using 486 Intel processors and also used Pentiums, but later migrated to the Alpha processor. But this isn't high volume by any means..


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