Itanium Rising: Breaking Through Moore's Second Law of Computing Power

Importance of Itanium Floating Point Performance

When working with mathematical equations, such as the kind found in high-energy physics, fluid dynamics, and weather simulations, to say that the equations become complex is to seriously understate the case. Luckily for Itanium-based systems users, the registers and other elements of the chip were designed to optimize the Itanium processor family's ability to perform floating-point calculations.

In complex simulations such as weather or fluid dynamics, there are so many variables that few if any organizations outside of government research centers have really tried to pursue an effective, highly accurate simulation. This is the domain of the people who practice HPTC, and is where floating-point ...