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| From | John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.arch |
| Subject | Re: i860 on Bitsavers |
| Date | 2011-09-11 23:37 +0000 |
| Organization | Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY |
| Message-ID | <j4jgn8$m70$1@gal.iecc.com> (permalink) |
| References | <ed187816-7395-4882-b3c7-b6876b38626a@g9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <2011Sep11.094149@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <j4ilqs$2d6f$1@gal.iecc.com> <j4il42$k2i$1@gosset.csi.cam.ac.uk> |
>Well, that may have been part of the problem, but the IA-64 was a >complete disaster from day one. It was very fast for some HPC work, >but dire for others, and was horribly unreliable for 'general' HPC >work (i.e. when running a volatile and uncontrollable software set). Well, yes, although you could imagine them fixing that. The Multiflow machines worked great, but (for reasons both related and unrelated to the technology) couldn't keep up with the performance increase of conventional machines. R's, John
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i860 on Bitsavers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-09-10 16:20 -0700
Re: i860 on Bitsavers anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-09-11 07:41 +0000
Re: i860 on Bitsavers John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-09-11 15:58 +0000
Re: i860 on Bitsavers nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-09-11 16:46 +0100
Re: i860 on Bitsavers John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-09-11 23:37 +0000
Re: i860 on Bitsavers Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-09-11 12:15 -0700
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