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To: Paul Engel who wrote (134785)	5/13/2001 12:51:24 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Message #134785 from Paul Engel at May 13, 2001 12:32 AM Re: "16 1.5GHz Dual Athlon 4 systems each with 4GB PC2100. Itanic would be obliterated." Be sure and let us know when somebody offers a 16-way Dual AthWiper system - along with some software that runs on it. Perhaps my grammar wasn't clear? How about: Sixteen 1.5GHz Dual Athlon 4 systems Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (134785)	5/13/2001 12:07:22 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

The advantage of Itanium, and any other 64 bit CPU, is less based on its speed performing standard benchmarks, and more its ability to address large contiguous files > 2^32 bits in length. The same would also apply to its ability to handle integers that are 64 bits in length as well. It is why it will show different performance depending on the benchmark one uses. To anyone who has had to program 16/32 bit arithmetic on an 8 bit CPU, you can see how much of an advantage that could be.