This book covers the development and application of Itanium. It describes why the revolutionary leap forward in processing power can help CEO's achieve their company's vision. It also discusses the implication of these changes to a company's IT infrastructure. The book touches on issues involving how to move away from the desktop model of computing into implementing a system that best makes use of the IPF. The final section of the book discusses the future of the IPF and the technological changes resulting from it. This will prove to be a helpful guide and forecaster. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors in computer chips, which directly affects how fast a computer can process information, will double every eighteen months. However, computing speed has been held back by Moore's lesser-known second law: more transistors added do not necessarily mean that performance will double every 18 months. Most IT environments today rely on RISC based machines which have been increasing performance over the last several years by adding complexity to the chip to create "superscalar, out-of-order execution engines". While these have improvements have continued to increase system power year after year, there are now indications that we cannot depend on RISC to give the same benefits into the future.
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Leveraging the revolutionary power of the Itanium processor family.
The Itanium processor family has come of age, giving high-end server and workstation buyers the powerful price/performance benefits that PC buyers have long taken for granted. In Itanium Rising, two leaders of HP's Itanium processor initiative present the first systematic guide for business and technical professionals who are implementing or evaluating Itanium technologies. Jim Carlson and Jerry Huck show why Itanium is so revolutionary—and offer a complete blueprint for translating its immense power into true competitive advantage.
- Why Itanium is uniquely well designed for today's high-bandwidth, networked applications
- Itanium as the foundation for an "always on," services-based Internet infrastructure
- Using Itanium to gain a unified "enterprise view" of the business
- Architecting IT systems and infrastructure to take full advantage of Itanium technology
- New opportunities and reasons to move away from the "desktop model" of computing
- The future of the Itanium processor family—and the technological changes it will trigger
Whether you're an IT or business leader, developer, or technical computing specialist, Itanium will help you drive down costs, drive up productivity, and accomplish things that were simply impossible before. Itanium Rising will show you how.
About the Author
JIM CARLSON, Director of Marketing for Hewlett-Packard Company's Intel Processor Family (IPF)-based systems, is responsible for coordinating and directing Itanium-related marketing activities and product strategies across HP's Computer Systems organization. He also directs plans for helping resellers, ISVs, and users transition to Itanium systems.
JERRY HUCK led architectural work on the Itanium processor family specification as Chief Architect for HP's Application Development Operation, Software & Solutions Organization, Computing Systems. He is now focused on making HP-UX the Itanium's application platform of choice.
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This review is from: Itanium Rising: Breaking Through Moore's Second Law of Computing Power (Paperback)
I'm planning an Itanium-based CRM solution for my company. This book helped me get it approved with management, and helped us reject a more expensive Sun-based sytem. It's great to give to your managers to explain the new technology.
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