> they were actually very performant Insanely expensive for that performance. I was the architect of HPC clusters in that era, and Itanic never made it to the

> they were actually very performant Insanely expensive for that performance. I was the architect of HPC clusters in that era, and Itanic never made it to the top for price per performance. Also, having lived through the software stack issues with the first beta chips of Itanic and AMD64 (and MIPS64, but who's counting), AMD64 was way way more stable than the others.