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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:19:12 -0400, "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@ezrs.com>
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>http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040923180613.html
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Hmm.. interesting quote:

"It is unclear how, if at all, workstation software for Itanium-based
systems will evolve in future, if other makers of computers decide to
withdraw Itanium 2-based workstations."


Uhhh... doesn't it kind of require that there ARE other companies
making Itanium 2-based workstations before they can be withdrawn?!
SGI doesn't sell any, IBM doesn't, Dell doesn't, Sun sure as hell
doesn't...

So, umm.. does ANYONE sell an Itanium workstation?

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Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium sales.

"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:19:12 -0400, "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@ezrs.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040923180613.html
> >
>
> Hmm.. interesting quote:
>
> "It is unclear how, if at all, workstation software for Itanium-based
> systems will evolve in future, if other makers of computers decide to
> withdraw Itanium 2-based workstations."
>
>
> Uhhh... doesn't it kind of require that there ARE other companies
> making Itanium 2-based workstations before they can be withdrawn?!
> SGI doesn't sell any, IBM doesn't, Dell doesn't, Sun sure as hell
> doesn't...
>
> So, umm.. does ANYONE sell an Itanium workstation?
>
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Grumble wrote:

> Yousuf Khan wrote:
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>> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040923180613.html
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>
> Strange.
>
> http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/SubFamMatrix.asp?ProductLineId=433&FamilyId=1324
>
> http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/SubFamMatrix.asp?ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=1474
>
>
> I don't see what makes the rx1600-2 unfit as a workstation.
>

http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/infolibrary/whitepapers/rx4640_2600_1600_wp_FINAL_4-14-04.pdf

"The Integrity rx1600-2, rx2600-2, and rx4640-8 servers do not deploy
AGP graphics bus technology."

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Judd wrote:
> Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
> sales.

Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it look
like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.

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Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Judd wrote:
>
>>Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
>>sales.
>
>
> Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it look
> like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.
>

At least some who might have been characterized as workstation customers
will be buying (and have been buying) "servers."

The products that HP continues to offer compete more directly with white
box rack-mounted "servers" that can be used as is or hooked up into a
Beowulf cluster. For someone who might be scaling up to a cluster, the
rack-mounted version makes more sense to begin with.

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"Robert Myers" <rmyers1400@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > Judd wrote:
> >
> >>Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
> >>sales.
> >
> >
> > Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it look
> > like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.
> >
>
> At least some who might have been characterized as workstation customers
> will be buying (and have been buying) "servers."
>
> The products that HP continues to offer compete more directly with white
> box rack-mounted "servers" that can be used as is or hooked up into a
> Beowulf cluster. For someone who might be scaling up to a cluster, the
> rack-mounted version makes more sense to begin with.
>

So it's just a server product now? Boy did Intel screw this one up. The
costs aren't too prohibitive. I wonder why it just didn't take? There is
decent enough reason to need 64-bit at the workstation level. Desktop PCs
just don't matter in terms of 64-bit right now. Workstations you would
think would have taken to it. Intel must have some serious marketing issues
going on.
 
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Robert Myers wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
>> Judd wrote:
>>
>>> Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
>>> sales.
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it
>> look like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.
>>
>
> At least some who might have been characterized as workstation customers
> will be buying (and have been buying) "servers."
>
> The products that HP continues to offer compete more directly with white
> box rack-mounted "servers" that can be used as is or hooked up into a
> Beowulf cluster. For someone who might be scaling up to a cluster, the
> rack-mounted version makes more sense to begin with.
>
> RM
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Without a volume desktop market, I think the Itanium will probably go
the way of the 860.

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Judd wrote:
> "Robert Myers" <rmyers1400@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:HP_4d.251270$mD.189058@attbi_s02...
>
>>Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>
>>>Judd wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
>>>>sales.
>>>
>>>
>>>Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it look
>>>like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.
>>>
>>
>>At least some who might have been characterized as workstation customers
>>will be buying (and have been buying) "servers."
>>
>>The products that HP continues to offer compete more directly with white
>>box rack-mounted "servers" that can be used as is or hooked up into a
>>Beowulf cluster. For someone who might be scaling up to a cluster, the
>>rack-mounted version makes more sense to begin with.
>>
>
>
> So it's just a server product now? Boy did Intel screw this one up. The
> costs aren't too prohibitive. I wonder why it just didn't take? There is
> decent enough reason to need 64-bit at the workstation level. Desktop PCs
> just don't matter in terms of 64-bit right now. Workstations you would
> think would have taken to it. Intel must have some serious marketing issues
> going on.
>
>
>
If you want a 64 bit workstation, you can buy Opteron, SPARC, or POWER.
You don't need an unproven Itanium.

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Judd wrote:
> So it's just a server product now? Boy did Intel screw this one up.
> The costs aren't too prohibitive. I wonder why it just didn't take?
> There is decent enough reason to need 64-bit at the workstation
> level. Desktop PCs just don't matter in terms of 64-bit right now.
> Workstations you would think would have taken to it. Intel must have
> some serious marketing issues going on.

Most programming work is probably done on workstations rather than servers.
So without Itanium workstations, there can't be many Itanium server apps
made.

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"Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com> wrote in message
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> So it's just a server product now? Boy did Intel screw this one up. The
> costs aren't too prohibitive. I wonder why it just didn't take? There is
> decent enough reason to need 64-bit at the workstation level. Desktop PCs
> just don't matter in terms of 64-bit right now. Workstations you would
> think would have taken to it. Intel must have some serious marketing
> issues
> going on.
>

They are not abandoning 64b workstation. The artical states that they are
making this move because demand has shifted to Intels EMT64 Xenon's. The
only part that gets me is that HP still isn't making any workstations based
on the Opteron/AFX.

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Carlo Razzeto wrote:
> They are not abandoning 64b workstation. The artical states that they
> are making this move because demand has shifted to Intels EMT64
> Xenon's. The only part that gets me is that HP still isn't making any
> workstations based on the Opteron/AFX.

If they had announced that they are replacing Itanium workstations with
Opteron workstations, then there would be hell to pay with Intel. Here they
are being diplomatic and stating that they are replacing one Intel product
with another.

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"CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> Judd wrote:
> > "Robert Myers" <rmyers1400@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:HP_4d.251270$mD.189058@attbi_s02...
> >
> >>Yousuf Khan wrote:
> >>
> >>>Judd wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
> >>>>sales.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it
look
> >>>like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.
> >>>
> >>
> >>At least some who might have been characterized as workstation customers
> >>will be buying (and have been buying) "servers."
> >>
> >>The products that HP continues to offer compete more directly with white
> >>box rack-mounted "servers" that can be used as is or hooked up into a
> >>Beowulf cluster. For someone who might be scaling up to a cluster, the
> >>rack-mounted version makes more sense to begin with.
> >>
> >
> >
> > So it's just a server product now? Boy did Intel screw this one up.
The
> > costs aren't too prohibitive. I wonder why it just didn't take? There
is
> > decent enough reason to need 64-bit at the workstation level. Desktop
PCs
> > just don't matter in terms of 64-bit right now. Workstations you would
> > think would have taken to it. Intel must have some serious marketing
issues
> > going on.
> >
> >
> >
> If you want a 64 bit workstation, you can buy Opteron, SPARC, or POWER.
> You don't need an unproven Itanium.

Opteron is proven? Ridiculous comment seeing how it's come long after IA64.
Sparc and Power I agree with but their costs are prohibitive.
 
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:54:11 -0600, "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com>
wrote:
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>"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
>news:7bl7l01pk7jom3arligi9ffpi4rv2gmffj@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:19:12 -0400, "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@ezrs.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040923180613.html
>> >
>>
>> Hmm.. interesting quote:
>>
>> "It is unclear how, if at all, workstation software for Itanium-based
>> systems will evolve in future, if other makers of computers decide to
>> withdraw Itanium 2-based workstations."
>>
>>
>> Uhhh... doesn't it kind of require that there ARE other companies
>> making Itanium 2-based workstations before they can be withdrawn?!
>> SGI doesn't sell any, IBM doesn't, Dell doesn't, Sun sure as hell
>> doesn't...
>>
>> So, umm.. does ANYONE sell an Itanium workstation?
>
>Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium sales.

How so? It's been fairly widely published that the Itaniums sales are
mostly from HP's servers and SGI's high-end HPC systems. Neither of
these are in any way workstations.

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"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:54:11 -0600, "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> >> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:19:12 -0400, "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@ezrs.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040923180613.html
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hmm.. interesting quote:
> >>
> >> "It is unclear how, if at all, workstation software for Itanium-based
> >> systems will evolve in future, if other makers of computers decide to
> >> withdraw Itanium 2-based workstations."
> >>
> >>
> >> Uhhh... doesn't it kind of require that there ARE other companies
> >> making Itanium 2-based workstations before they can be withdrawn?!
> >> SGI doesn't sell any, IBM doesn't, Dell doesn't, Sun sure as hell
> >> doesn't...
> >>
> >> So, umm.. does ANYONE sell an Itanium workstation?
> >
> >Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium sales.
>
> How so? It's been fairly widely published that the Itaniums sales are
> mostly from HP's servers and SGI's high-end HPC systems. Neither of
> these are in any way workstations.
>

To the tune of 100,000+... I don't believe that.
 
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Judd wrote:
> Opteron is proven? Ridiculous comment seeing how it's come long
> after IA64. Sparc and Power I agree with but their costs are
> prohibitive.

x86 isn't proven?

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Judd wrote:
>> How so? It's been fairly widely published that the Itaniums sales
>> are mostly from HP's servers and SGI's high-end HPC systems.
>> Neither of these are in any way workstations.
>>
>
> To the tune of 100,000+... I don't believe that.

Well, the statement is that 100,000+ Itanium processors were "shipped".
There was no mention of them actually being sold. Might be a lot of systems
lent out to developers.

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> Most programming work is probably done on workstations rather than servers.

That is not true. Most of the development on VMS and HP-UX atleast is
done by telnet or remote X connections. HP has also never shipped
workstations as developer packages, they have shipped rx2600 servers
for that purpose.
 
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CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:<41549572.1090502@prodigy.net>...
> >
> Without a volume desktop market, I think the Itanium will probably go
> the way of the 860.

While ofcourse anything can happen. Comparisons with 860, 960 or other
earlier attempts with Itanium are not really valid. 860 went nowhere
and had no impact at all and the difference in investments with
Itanium are huge. Intel realized in 1997-2000 that Itanium would not
be a desktop product. If that was not OK, they would have dropped it
in 2000-2001. Since then they have marketed it as a high-end product
and unless Intel will get in financial trouble I guess they will
continue with Itanium.
 
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Judd wrote:
> "CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
> news:41549B3E.2050103@prodigy.net...
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>>Judd wrote:
>>
>>>"Robert Myers" <rmyers1400@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>news:HP_4d.251270$mD.189058@attbi_s02...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Judd wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
>>>>>>sales.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it
>
> look
>
>>>>>like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>At least some who might have been characterized as workstation customers
>>>>will be buying (and have been buying) "servers."
>>>>
>>>>The products that HP continues to offer compete more directly with white
>>>>box rack-mounted "servers" that can be used as is or hooked up into a
>>>>Beowulf cluster. For someone who might be scaling up to a cluster, the
>>>>rack-mounted version makes more sense to begin with.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>So it's just a server product now? Boy did Intel screw this one up.
>
> The
>
>>>costs aren't too prohibitive. I wonder why it just didn't take? There
>
> is
>
>>>decent enough reason to need 64-bit at the workstation level. Desktop
>
> PCs
>
>>>just don't matter in terms of 64-bit right now. Workstations you would
>>>think would have taken to it. Intel must have some serious marketing
>
> issues
>
>>>going on.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>If you want a 64 bit workstation, you can buy Opteron, SPARC, or POWER.
>>You don't need an unproven Itanium.
>
>
> Opteron is proven? Ridiculous comment seeing how it's come long after IA64.
> Sparc and Power I agree with but their costs are prohibitive.
>
>
I believe I read that more Opteron processors were sold THIS QUARTER
than Itaniums in all time.

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:44:44 -0600, "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com> wrote:

>
>"Robert Myers" <rmyers1400@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> > Judd wrote:
>> >
>> >>Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium
>> >>sales.
>> >
>> >
>> > Well, Itaniums can be either workstations or servers. This makes it look
>> > like there may only be a server market left for Itanium now.
>> >
>>
>> At least some who might have been characterized as workstation customers
>> will be buying (and have been buying) "servers."
>>
>> The products that HP continues to offer compete more directly with white
>> box rack-mounted "servers" that can be used as is or hooked up into a
>> Beowulf cluster. For someone who might be scaling up to a cluster, the
>> rack-mounted version makes more sense to begin with.
>>
>
>So it's just a server product now? Boy did Intel screw this one up. The
>costs aren't too prohibitive. I wonder why it just didn't take? There is
>decent enough reason to need 64-bit at the workstation level. Desktop PCs
>just don't matter in terms of 64-bit right now. Workstations you would
>think would have taken to it. Intel must have some serious marketing issues
>going on.

I don't recall who posted this originally, several months ago, but
"decertification" sounds kinda final:
http://www.ptc.com/partners/hardware/current/itanium_letter.htm

Err, PTC is a pretty important supplier of workstation apps... like
Pro/Engineer. I can make a guess at where this policy comes from: many
software vendors got badly burned by some of the workstation ports to
Risc6K, Alpha, etc. a few years ago. Basically the volume was tiny, income
didn't even come close to covering the cost of buying the hardware and the
majority of customers were happy with x86 based performance... which in
some cases caught up with the workstation's within a matter of months
anyway.

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Judd wrote:
>> Opteron is proven? Ridiculous comment seeing how it's come long after IA64.
>> Sparc and Power I agree with but their costs are prohibitive.

Did it come that long after IA64? The number of Opterons that have
been shipped so far outstride the number of IA64 that the number of
actual work hours the Opteron had proven itself in has got to be way
higher than IA64.
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:41:00 -0600, "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com>
wrote, in part:
>"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:54:11 -0600, "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com>
>> wrote:

>> >Somebody must be for Intel to say they are having record Itanium sales.

>> How so? It's been fairly widely published that the Itaniums sales are
>> mostly from HP's servers and SGI's high-end HPC systems. Neither of
>> these are in any way workstations.

>To the tune of 100,000+... I don't believe that.

It should be noted that an Itanium server, unlike an Itanium
workstation, may contain more than one CPU.

Thus, the fact that these rackmount servers have a high dollar cost is
balanced out.

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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:39:06 -0600, "Judd" <IhateSpam@stopspam.com>
wrote, in part:
>"CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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>> If you want a 64 bit workstation, you can buy Opteron, SPARC, or POWER.
>> You don't need an unproven Itanium.

>Opteron is proven? Ridiculous comment seeing how it's come long after IA64.
>Sparc and Power I agree with but their costs are prohibitive.

Itaniums certainly aren't "unproven" in the sense that there's any doubt
about whether or not the chips *work*.

In fact, I would be rather surprised if both the Itanium and Opteron
architectures haven't been quite well benchmarked.

What, then, could be "unproven" about the Itanium?

I think what the poster means is this: the Opteron uses the architecture
of Intel's Pentium, with some extensions tacked on. So it inherits the
"proven" nature of the architecture of Intel's 80386 chip. Proven to run
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 and Windows 98 and Windows Millenium Edition
and Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows XP
and simply gazillions of applications for them.

Compared to that, the Power PC is unproven, since the closest thing to a
major platform it is found in is something called a Macintosh... you may
have heard of it.

The trouble, of course, is with such high standards for what constitutes
a "proven" architecture, we would probably all still be using Z-80s.

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