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Intel Unveils 7 New Itanium Processors
By
ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, Nov 2, 2007
Intel Corporation has launched the dual-core Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series processors. These are built for managing high-end applications and encompass advanced features that are aimed to improve reliability and reduce power consumption.
The 9100 series accentuates the ongoing shift from proprietary RISC products to the choice offered by Itanium-based servers. This series represents the sixth generation of Itanium chips, with 3 future generations under development.
The Itanium platform s mission-critical support is strengthened by a new feature called Core Level Lock-Step. This aspect improves the data integrity and reliability of applications by eliminating undetected errors in the core. Core Level Lock-Step joins existing Socket Level Lock-Step technology to deliver greater reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) by guaranteeing that calculation results are consistent among the cores and sockets.
Another new feature, Demand Based Switching (DBS), reduces server power consumption during low utilization periods, which can result in energy cost savings.
The 9100 series features clock speed of up to 1.66 GHz and 667 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) within a 104W power envelope. A 3-load bus and 2 processors and a chipset on the same bus provide increased bandwidth for enterprise and high-performance computing tasks.
Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel s Digital Enterprise Group said, The Itanium ecosystem continues to flourish as customers choose industry standard platforms supported by leading system OEMs that provide them with the broadest choice of applications.
Unlike products from the remaining RISC vendors, the 9100 series continues to offer the end-user freedom through a broad choice of software with more than 12,000 applications in production, and flexibility to support multiple operating systems, including Linux, Windows, HP-UX, HP NonStop, HP OpenVMS, z/OS, and Solaris/SPARC.
Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice president of Worldwide Engineering said, "We ve worked closely with Intel in an effort to ensure that our upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 fully supports the latest RAS and virtualization features that Intel delivers with this platform. By working closely together, we are able to deliver the industry-leading 64-bit platform our customers are asking for, presenting them with an opportunity to significantly drive down their total cost of ownership in the datacenter."
Customers in industries that rely on real-time decision-making based on large amounts of data, such as energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and telecommunications, are taking advantage of Itanium s open architecture, advanced parallelism, and extreme scalability and flexibility.
All server-maker members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) will launch new Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series-based products, including Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, Hitachi, Intel, NEC, SGI and Unisys.
The 9100 series, with its extensive virtualization partitioning features, is the premier platform for RISC and mainframe migration. Itanium offers a single platform for virtualization of diverse OS environments such zOS, legacy Unix, Linux and Windows; allowing for the consolidation of applications from old proprietary platforms. The 9100 series has also garnered virtualization support from key developers, including Transitive and SWsoft.
SWsoft Virtuozzo 4.0 on the new Itanium processor will enhance operating-system level virtualization support for Windows and Linux server infrastructure, said SWsoft CEO Serguei Beloussov.
"Transitive is releasing its Quicktransit for Solaris/Sparc-to-Linux/Itanium today." said Transitive President and CEO Bob Wiederhold. "Combining QuickTransit and servers equipped with Itanium processors provides datacenter operators to virtualize computing resources among technologies based on Itanium and Sun Sparc. In effect the combination allows maximum use and flexibility to the datacenter operations."
6 Intel dual-core and a single-core Itanium 9100 series processors have been shipped yesterday, with lock step parts to begin shipping in the first quarter of 2008. Prices range from $650 to $3,450 depending on order volume, features, and performance.
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when we are going to get this and wht is the benifit to end customer compared to earlier one?????? price tag of $650 - $3450 seems too high, any thing cheaper for Indial customer on Diwali. Intel is technology leadeer and we expected some new tech on Diwali |
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- Rajat,
Cyber It, Mumbai
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