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To: Petz who wrote (81092)	5/30/2002 2:05:49 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 275872

They have totally embraced clustering, so the key CPU spec is SPECfp/watt and SPECfp/$, and it that comparison PentiumIIIm and Sledgehammer will both smoke Itanium 2. Please show us a link to Sludgehammer FP scores. EP

To: Petz who wrote (81092)	5/30/2002 2:16:36 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz, Re: "No one in the "floating point world" really cares about Itanium's floating point scores. They have totally embraced clustering" I realize that farms of clustered workstations are best suited to firms that have a product ready to render, and that's where Itanium 2 won't fit. But how about all the development time it takes to make those products? Whether it be production films, engineering designs, cars, widgets, graphics, etc, these all have to be developed on individual workstations by individuals. You can't spread out processing power across a network to help someone rotate their mesh object on the screen, apply a filter, deform a set of vertices, and see the desired results in real time. You need dedicated processing power for that, and a dual processor Itanium 2 workstation would be the fastest solution on the planet. wbmw