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To: Elmer who wrote (138563)	7/3/2001 2:20:40 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 186894

It reached 116 in Phoenix today. Far from a record but still hot. All ready down to 48 this morning here in upstate New York. It could possibly hit 40. Had to close all the windows and get a blanket out. THE WATSONYOUTH

To: Elmer who wrote (138563)	7/3/2001 2:21:48 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Elmer - Re: "AC is dead and new one arrives tomorrow morning. A cool 112 is forecast for tomorrow.... " Good luck. Hope the heat doesn't get to you. Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (138563)	7/3/2001 3:52:23 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

HP first to ship Itanium systems Hewlett-Packard achieved a historic first on June 19, 2001, when we were the first vendor to ship production Itanium systems to customers. The product manager for the HP workstation i2000, Larry Mahoney, said: "We are very excited to be shipping Itanium systems out to customers on multiple continents. This is a ground-breaking moment in computing history as these are the first systems of what will become the first ever pervasive enterprise architecture. "The fact that HP was first to ship products based on the Itanium architecture illustrates our strong commitment to the platform, as well as our commitment to deliver the latest cutting-edge technology faster than our competition." The Itanium processor family products are unique in a number of ways. Foremost, they are based on an architecture that has offers more parallel performance than any competing architecture available today. Second, these first 64-bit enterprise-class processors are built using the techniques of volume production and delivery, perfected by our partners at Intel. "This brings together an advanced enterprise architecture for the Internet age, with the economics of scale of a commodity delivery model. HP and Intel co-invented the Itanium processor architecture to replace all RISC architectures," explained Mahoney. hp.com hpl.hp.com hp labs - feature stories Inventing Itanium: How HP Labs helped create the next-generation chip architecture June 2001 When HP rolls out its first computer systems based on the Itanium processor architecture later this month, it'll launch a whole new chapter in high-end computing. But for some HP scientists, the product launch -- a workstation and two servers -- marks the culmination of research that began more than a decade ago. The Intel Itanium processor is the first generation of the latest processor architecture co-invented by Hewlett-Packard and Intel and produced by Intel. These processors are intended for dynamic Internet-based interactions, complex computations, rich media processing and object- oriented environments. The Itanium architecture has its roots in research that began in the 1980s, when HP Labs set out to define an architecture that would converge HP's current lines of computer system products. This resulted in what became known as the PA-RISC architecture (Reduced Instruction Set Computing). Recognizing that RISC-based architecture would reach its limits, HP Labs began a research program in Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) in early 1989, with the goal of evolving the Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) style of architecture to be more applicable to general-purpose workloads. This research program, which continued through 1996, yielded the EPIC style of architecture and the compiler technology for it. At about the same time the ILP work began, HP Labs started a separate program to build an EPIC architecture to replace PA-RISC. What emerged by 1993 was the PA-WideWord architecture -- the basis of the HP-Intel alliance and the Itanium processor specification (formerly known as IA-64). Itanium was developed as an extremely parallel high-performance architecture, carrying out more instructions in one clock than its architectural predecessors. It does this by passing the burden of instruction scheduling to the compiler software that reorders the code for maximum parallelism while the hardware focuses on executing the instructions issued to it. Read about some of the scientists who contributed to this effort, the technical reports behind the research or go to the HP Itanium Web site. Scientists Bill Worley - one of the principal architects of PA-RISC and PA-Wide Word Profile (2001) Bill Worley interview (1997) Rajiv Gupta - headed the joint architecture team Profile (2001) Rajiv Gupta interview (1999) Jerry Huck - lead architect, Itanium processor specification Profile (2001) Bob Rau - VLIW pioneer who helped create the EPIC style of architecture (bio) Mike Schlansker - lead research on EPIC, a principal architect of PA-Wide Word (bio) Vinod Kathail - lead research on EPIC, architect of EPIC compiler prototype (bio) Dick Lampman, now Vice President, Research, Hewlett-Packard and Director, HP Labs, managed the PA-Wide Word project. (bio) Technical Reports ILP Overviews Instruction-Level Parallel Processing (1992) Instruction-Level Parallel Processing: History, Overview and Perspective (1992) PA-RISC The Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC 8500 Processor (1998) EPIC Architecture Research EPIC: An Architecture for Instruction-Level Parallelism Processors (1999) Achieving High Levels of Instruction-Level Parallism with Reduced Hardware Complexity (1996) HPL-PD Architecture Specification: Version 1.1 (1993) HPL Play-Doh Architecture Specification Version 1.0 (1993) EPIC Compiler Research Listing below represents only most recent reports - for earlier reports on this subject, see www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/index.html.) Efficient Backtracking Instruction Schedulers (2000) Control CPR: A Branch Height Reduction Organization for EPIC Architectures (1999) Elcor's Machine Description System: Version 3.0 (1998) Machine-Description Driven Compilers for EPIC Processors (1998) Meld scheduling: A Technique for Relaxing Scheduling Complaints (1997) Analysis of Predicted Code (1996) Profile-Driven Instruction Level Parallel Scheduling (1996) Some of the scientists who helped invent Itanium Some of the research leading to Itanium (technical reports) HP Itanium Web site