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To: Paul Engel who wrote (17702)	11/4/2000 10:02:30 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Paul, Intel, Industry Demonstrate Itanium Processor Platform Readiness SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000--Nine leading systems vendors, five leading operating system vendors and more than 30 independent hardware vendors demonstrated hardware and software readiness for the forthcoming Itanium(TM) processor If they were ready 3 months ago, why don't they ship the darn thing. Joe

To: Paul Engel who wrote (17702)	11/5/2000 7:29:42 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

<Paul: Give Intel a call - be persistent - and try to get to the ITanium Applications Solution Center> I guess it can never hurt to try. The Linpack benchmarks hinted at does suggest that even an 800MHz Itanium does quite well in at least some circumstances. Of course, Linpack is single precision fp (IIRC), but hopefully the penalty isn't too great for double precision. Btw, with regards to AMD clusters, the University of Kentucky has a 64-node Athlon cluster (700MHz, 1 CPU/node): cnet.com (Look at the image of the setup in that link.. why the heck isn't the thing rack-mounted?) Thanks again, -fyo