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Article: SGI Altix 3000 Screams on Upcoming Itanium 2 'Madison' Processor Running 64-Bit Technical Applications; Preliminary Tests Reveal Record-Setting Performance on Next-Generation Intel Itanium 2 Processor; Developer Community Optimizing Code for Altix Platform.
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- PR Newswire
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- May 21, 2003
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SGI today announced that its SGI(R) Altix(TM) 3000 servers and superclusters deliver world-record performance on the next-generation Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor (Intel code name Madison). Preliminary results of 64-bit application tests reveal that the SGI Altix 3000 family running on Madison will once again provide record-shattering performance, price/performance and scalability in a standard Linux(R) OS environment. Based on early industry-standard benchmarks, SGI also expects the combination of SGI Altix 3000 and the Madison processor to deliver system performance over 50% faster than of current record-breaking results on the Itanium 2 processor-based Altix(TM) 3000 ...