Itanium Growth in Technical Computing
Technical computing in and of itself can be done on a wide range of systems, as illustrated in Figure 5-2. At the base level, there are systems that contain only one or two CPUs and are used by the engineers doing Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tasks. Today, Hewlett-Packard offers Itanium-based systems consisting of 2-CPU workstatiopns and 4-CPU symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) systems.
Figure 5-2. Different Levels of Technical Computing
At the higher end you see the processing power of a cluster of computers to act as one big computer. The UNIX®[16] and Linux®[17] world works this very well. A cluster ...
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