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To: Tony Viola who wrote (74951)	3/1/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, the performance of the unit processor CPU is the single most important parameter in the large computer world. It's a no-brainer because, when you do multiprocessor systems, the more powerful the UP, the more powerful the 2P, 3P, 4P and up become. Boy, rocket science. This is far from being a no-brainer. Nobody knows how to write a compiler which can take advantage of IA-64's theoretical processing power. It is much simpler to write software which partitions the compute tasks at the granularity of the CPU. Attempting to multi-thread a single instruction stream for the APIC architecture, is a ridiculously complex problem. Scumbria