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Can you call it Itanic if it was around for more than a decade because of how well it sold and how many supercomputers chose to use it? I am familiar with the p
by ianhanschen 5y ago
Can you call it Itanic if it was around for more than a decade because of how well it sold and how many supercomputers chose to use it? I am familiar with the pain of Itanium, and I understand how hard it was to work with. I've kernel debugged an operating system on it. Yet it was still successful enough to be around for this long. I wouldn't call it "Itanic."
- kstrauser 5y ago> Can you call it Itanic if it was around for more than a decade because of how well it sold It didn't sell well, though. At all. > and how many supercomputers chose to use it? Here's a chart of supercomputer architecture by year: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Processor_families_in_TOP500_supercomputers.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Processor_families_i... Itanium showed up around 2001, peaked in 2003 at about 100 systems, and was nearly gone by 2007. However good it might have been hypothetically -- and I contend that it wasn't -- it was a market disaster.