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special techniques to employ it. Currently available compilers optimized for Itanium 2 include Intel C++ Compiler, Intel Fortran Compiler, and Microsoft SDK/C/C++ Compiler. 2.1.5 Science and technology industries Science and technology industries (S&TC) require the processing of large and complex calculations to solve challenging problems. While S&TC industries are characterized by compute-intensive workloads that require special server characteristics to meet their performance needs, each industry -- petroleum, automotive, aerospace, weather or research - also has its own set of S&TC applications, each demanding different computing solutions. The Itanium 2-based systems are a solid base for compute-intensive applications. It is for this reason that the Itanium and Itanium 2 processors were chosen for the largest American-built supercomputer, the TeraGrid project sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. When finally deployed with more than 3,000 Itanium 2 chips, TeraGrid will be capable of more than 14 billion floating-point operations per second (teraflops). Itanium 2 features, such as increased system memory bandwidth, total number of 328 onboard registers (including 128 floating-point registers) and thus high floating-point performance, speed up calculations and data analysis in S&TC applications. 2.2 Why choose x450? Modern enterprise applications require servers with significant processing power that are able to process large quantities of data and store numerous transactions in cache, and do it all with the highest possible availability and reliability. Systems that cannot deliver at this level are destined to serve as solutions in non-critical settings. IBM, as a market leader, has been delivering top-of-the-line solutions for enterprise environment for years and xSeries 450 is evidence that this is not going to change with future IA-64 technology. With close cooperation between IBM and Intel, the xSeries 450 will continue to be an excellent platform for the most demanding 64-bit enterprise applications. xSeries 450 combines the best of three worlds: The best of the xSeries servers family, the x450 server is based on the mainframe-inspired reliable components of the xSeries 440, IBM's most Chapter 2. Positioning 35

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Chapter 2. Positioning
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special techniques to employ it. Currently available compilers optimized for
Itanium 2 include Intel C++ Compiler, Intel Fortran Compiler, and Microsoft
SDK/C/C++ Compiler.
2.1.5
Science and technology industries
Science and technology industries (S&TC) require the processing of large and
complex calculations to solve challenging problems.
While S&TC industries are characterized by compute-intensive workloads that
require special server characteristics to meet their performance needs, each
industry -— petroleum, automotive, aerospace, weather or research — also has
its own set of S&TC applications, each demanding different computing solutions.
The Itanium 2-based systems are a solid base for compute-intensive
applications. It is for this reason that the Itanium and Itanium 2 processors were
chosen for the largest American-built supercomputer, the TeraGrid project
sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. When finally
deployed with more than 3,000 Itanium 2 chips, TeraGrid will be capable of more
than 14 billion floating-point operations per second (teraflops).
Itanium 2 features, such as increased system memory bandwidth, total number
of 328 onboard registers (including 128 floating-point registers) and thus high
floating-point performance, speed up calculations and data analysis in S&TC
applications.
2.2
Why choose x450?
Modern enterprise applications require servers with significant processing power
that are able to process large quantities of data and store numerous transactions
in cache, and do it all with the highest possible availability and reliability. Systems
that cannot deliver at this level are destined to serve as solutions in non-critical
settings.
IBM, as a market leader, has been delivering top-of-the-line solutions for
enterprise environment for years and xSeries 450 is evidence that this is not
going to change with future IA-64 technology. With close cooperation between
IBM and Intel, the xSeries 450 will continue to be an excellent platform for the
most demanding 64-bit enterprise applications.
xSeries 450 combines the best of three worlds:
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The best of the xSeries servers family, the x450 server is based on the
mainframe-inspired reliable components of the xSeries 440, IBM’s most