SERC picks Itanium 2

There was also some good news from Intel’s point of view on the Itanium front. Intel announced that the Supercomputing Education Research Centre (SERC) at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore had purchased India’s first SGI Altix 3000 system, powered by 32 Itanium 2 processors. The SGI system will be a shared supercomputing resource for SERC researchers and will be used in the areas of gene sequencing, gene mapping, computational fluid dynamics and other cutting-edge research projects. Intel will also support IISc with Intel-based compilers and tools to enhance the performance of various applications developed by SERC.

The Altix 3000 will be upgraded to the next Itanium 2 processor (codenamed Madison) when it released later in the year. The system is based on the concept of global shared memory, which makes memory available to all system resources.

And with Windows Server 2003 being released, Intel announced two new versions of Intel Vtune performance analysers with support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 OS and Visual Studio .NET 2003 development environment. The performance analysers make application and Web performance tuning easier and more efficient on individual or multi-tier Intel processor based platforms.