Move away from the desktop and into a world of higher performance processing and true mobile computing--made possible with Itanium!
- Discusses how the IPF can help a company achieve its vison and goals by breaking away from the Desktop PC model.
- Provides information on how the IPF can increase your companys IT productivity beyond the limits of current systems.
- Includes coverage on how to effectively design and implement an IT network around the IPFs abilities.
This book covers the development and application of Itanium. It describes why the revolutionary leap forward in processing power can help CEOs achieve their companys vision. It also discusses the implication of these changes to a companys 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. Moores 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 Moores 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.
Jim Carlson is the Director of Marketing for Hewlett-Packard Companys Intel Processor Family (IPF)-based systems. In this role, Carlson is responsible for coordinating and directing the marketing activities across the Computer Systems organization for HPs IPF program. He is also directing plans to help channels (resellers and independent software vendors) and end users in their transition to these new IPF systems.