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Itanium Microarchitecture Update

When I visit potential HP Integrity customers, I often get questions around the Itanium processor, and the related roadmap. In fact, many non-HP customers seem to have heard the FUD from our competitors, and are surprised that Itanium isn't dead.

 

Intel has offered a public Itanium roadmap that includes the current Itanium 9300 processor series, a follow up processor called Poulson, and even a future Itanium processor called Kittson. Their public roadmap is available as a PDF and is one of the longer public roadmaps availablefor mission critical systems.

 

Now, we know that more details about the Poulson microarchitecture will be discussed at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in 2011 according to the advanced program release [PDF]. I am personally looking forward to reading about the conference and getting more details next year. David Kanter has an article on real world technologies that discusses what Poulson might look like if you are interested in more details.

 

Jacob Van Ewyk

Roadmaps do Matter

I was in Chicago this week, speaking with customers and partners about our new HP Integrity servers, HP-UX 11i v3, and server virtualization. As it happens these days, one of the discussions that came up was server roadmaps. One customer stated it as "once I get my current project into production, I immediately start thinking about what I'm going to do with it in another three years." The customer then stated that understanding how their mission critical servers would evolve over time was an important consideration when they are looking at mission critical systems.
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  • Kirk Bresniker is the Vice President/Chief Technologist for HP Business Critical Systems where he has technical responsibility for all things Mission Critical, including HP-UX, NonStop and scalable x86 platforms. He joined HP in 1989 after graduating from Santa Clara University and has been an HP Fellow since 2008.
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  • Vinay Gupta is an HP Distinguished Technologist and the NonStop Manageability Architect. He joined Tandem in 1994 after graduating from Indian Institute of Technology. He has worked on many NonStop manageability applications over time. He works across various groups within NonStop and HP to ensure consistency and interoperability in manageability interfaces and applications. He is also a member of DMTF workgroups.
  • Wendy Bartlett is a Distinguished Technologist in HP’s NonStop Enterprise Division, and focuses on dependability – security and availability - for the NonStop server line. She joined Tandem in 1978. Her other main area of interest is system architecture evolution. She has an M.S. degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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