07 Jul 2003
IT Week tests show the new Itanium 2 chip, codenamed Madison, will greatly accelerate compute-intensive tasks.
A 1.3GHz Madison with 3MB cache runs GNU Privacy Guard encryption - a solid indicator of computational speed - almost 3.5 times faster than a 1GHz Itanium 2 McKinley chip. Intel said firms should expect Madison to run apps 30 to 50 percent faster than McKinley. Experts say workstation apps could speed up more.
"If the entire workload was cached you would expect to see even greater gains in speed," said Peter Glaskowsky of Microprocessor Report.
Intel's IA-32 EL software to speed 32bit apps on Itanium will ship in the first Windows Server 2003 service pack.
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