[64studio-devel] 64studio project naming

[Daniel James]

Hi mmmmna,

>> That's right, and it's also the position of the Debian project that AMD
>> should get the credit for the work they did. AMD helped Linux kernel
>> developers to release the first native support for the architecture.
> 
> Ahh! 'nuff said right there - Since Intel tried to steer Linux into
> Itanium, boo for Intel, Yay for AMD for the help!

There are people doing supercomputing with Linux on the Itanium; HP 
leads the Gelato project in this area:

http://www.gelato.org/about/whatis.php

The problem I have with Itanium is that it's like a return to the old 
days, before commodity computing, when the high-end machines run a 
completely different, incompatible architecture. Fortunately there are 
now people running HPC applications on AMD64, which has a trickle-down 
benefit for us desktop users.

Interestingly, the fastest (known) AMD64 system in the world, Thor's 
Hammer, has nearly twice the number of Gflops as the fastest Itanium 
system, Tera-10:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_500

Cheers!

Daniel