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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (10803)	3/29/2003 5:42:16 PM
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SGI bets future on Intel's Itanic Big tin for big number crunching By Adamson Rust: Friday 28 March 2003, 10:30 JUST LIKE HEWLETT PACKARD, SGI appears to be betting its future on Intel's Itanium processor. Sources said that SGI has recently demoed its Altrix line of supercomputers to its top customers in the USA. And Altrix is very similar to the Origin line but with one very clear difference. The MIPS CPU blocks have been replaced by the Intel Itanium 2. The operating system is Linux and SGI already appears to have sold one or two super big boxes already. According to a potential customer close to the action, the shared memory architecture is "very good" and will help anyone interested in totally severe crazy number crunches. All of this appears to suggest that SGI will become one of Intel's top Itanium 2 resellers – perhaps the biggest reseller of all time. Who would have thought that 10 years ago, when Intel started muttering darkly about being able to run DOS applications on its 64-bit platform? But there's bad news for AMD and its Hammer platform in all of this. SGI has not even been approached by AMD for its Opteron server platform, and Intel's deal is done and dusted. Let's see how this pans out for the wallflower at the tin box party these days – good 'ol SGI. µ theinquirer.net