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 sysfriedSend message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 282 Credit: 1,415,417 RAC: 0 |
A LARGE Hadron Collider that has a circumference of 27 kilometres and to start operations in 2007 is being designed and tested using an Itanium 2 cluster, Intel said. Read more at: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26124 
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OlaV_Ouafouaf Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 10 Credit: 196,892 RAC: 0 
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<blockquote>A LARGE Hadron Collider that has a circumference of 27 kilometres </blockquote> Or half the "peripherique" boulevard of Paris ;-) but where bullets are more bikers than protons... OlaV+++ |
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FZB Send message Joined: 17 Sep 04 Posts: 23 Credit: 6,871,909 RAC: 0 
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i think it is a pity intel isn't pushing the itanium more into the mainstream market but rather stick to a 20+ year old technology (x86) that have lots of caveeats (IMO) like A20 gate and lots of other things just to stay compatible... i personally would be happy to break compatibility for the sake of a new architecture without all the old junk... |
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i think it is a pity intel isn't pushing the itanium more into the mainstream market but rather stick to a 20+ year old technology (x86) that have lots of caveeats (IMO) like A20 gate and lots of other things just to stay compatible... i personally would be happy to break compatibility for the sake of a new architecture without all the old junk... Hopefully now that both AMD and Intel are starting to introduce multicore processors they will be able to develop a new architecture while saving a x86 core to handle legacy applications. |
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