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On the one hand, IIRC, Windows Server on Itanium was almost useless for anything but running SQL Server. On the other hand, I think I remember reading a couple
by krylon 10y ago
On the one hand, IIRC, Windows Server on Itanium was almost useless for anything but running SQL Server.
On the other hand, I think I remember reading a couple of years ago that per CPU core, Xeons were already beating Itaniums in performance for database workloads. The main advantage apparently is that you can stuff lots of CPUs into an Integrity server, but mostly a cluster of smaller x86_64 machines has a good chance of being faster and cheaper.
- yuhong 10y agoI wonder if any Opteron node controllers caught on. The fun thing is that by the time Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 was released for Itanium, AMD had already released the Opteron, but the B1 stepping had plenty of problems which was probably why they didn't release Athlon 64 until the C0 stepping.