Itanium dropping fast on Top500 list

[YKhan]

Itanium was (recently) supposed to be a specialist in the HPC market,
was it not? It's gone from 84 systems down to 46. So it doesn't look
like it's very good for the HPC market either. What's left in niches?

Itanium loses out in supercomputing rankings - ZDNet UK News
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,39020351,39237219,00.htm

Yousuf Khan

 

[EdG]

Itanium was (recently) supposed to be a specialist in the HPC market,
was it not? It's gone from 84 systems down to 46. So it doesn't look
like it's very good for the HPC market either. What's left in niches?

Itanium loses out in supercomputing rankings - ZDNet UK News
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,39020351,39237219,00.htm

Yousuf Khan

An Intel representative cautioned about reading too much into the
numbers. A new, albeit delayed, version of Itanium 2, code-named
Montecito, is coming soon, which could reinvigorate Itanium's position.

which could reinvigorate Itanium's position but probably won't. ;p