A PDF circulating amongst those HP partners that Carly's Thought Police have failed to stamp out, has senior research scientist David Mosberger going ecstatic over the performance of IA-64 Linux on the company's boxes.
Mosberger, pictured here with his little penguin pal, says in the document we've seen that the Itanium was co-developed by both Intel and HP, an old canard that the latter company is still peddling, despite the efforts of Chipzilla to say Princess Carly's firm has to go it alone these days.
What this and other documents we've seen underlines is that HP is getting very, very serious about Linux, especially in the face of what it perceives as a Big Blue threat to its New Age P Low Cost Model (LCM).
Mosberger claims that Itanium 2 is only the start of an "aggressive line up" of pin compatible CPUs planned by Chipzilla, including fat-cache Madison at 130 nanometers, faster "cost optimised" Deerfield at 130 nanometers, and the 90 nanometer Montecito which is down the line a td.
On the HP ZX 6000, avers Mosberger, the Itanic 2 delivers 1356 SPECfp2000 using Linux, 807 SPECint2000 on HP/UX and that the ZX 2000 is the "lowest cost workstation with over 1000 SPECfp2000" scores.
News source: The Inquirer - HP's Mosberger touts Linux for Itanic
