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Intel's cache gigantism results in 2bn transistor Tukwila

clusteradmin.net

Before you buy it for your cluster (clusteradmin.net blog)

Unless you run large distributed jobs with lots of communication (in which case you should consider getting a large SMP anyway) I suggest you make price/performance benchmarks of your applications before jumping on the new Itanium.

Perhaps for the same X amount of money you can get way more nodes with slower cpus, but all together they will provide your cluster with higher throughput than a smaller number of nodes with top-shelf IA-64 on board.

-marek

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