On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Steve Gaudet wrote: > > From: David Thomas [mailto:davelists@imagesmiths.com] > > > > I'm learning that Itanium 2 boards are not yet in full > > production. If you're placing an order be prepared for LONG > > delays, possibly up to several months. > > > > Dave > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 01:35:28PM -0400, Marcel Turcotte > > (turcotte@site.uottawa.ca) wrote: .. > > > I about to buy some equipment, which include a bunch of Sun Blade > > > 100/150 workstations (15). I was wondering if some of you had any > > > experience with Itanium 2 based workstations. > With respect to motherboards being available, I believe Intel is the only > one offering a 4 way, through white box builders. However, your looking at > late October/November for release. > > On the other hand, you have HP which has two offering shipping now, > zx2000-single proc 900mhz, and the zx6000 dual proc 900mhz. Our customers started receiving their first commercial HP Itanium 2 systems late last week. Prior to that, all of the previous Itanium 2 system were at a tiny number high-profile, well-publicized sites with special agreements. There were no quiet users with unbiased opinions running a cluster that you just didn't hear about. As is usual in this type of product roll-out, the lead systems vendor (HP) will have weeks or months of near-exclusive delivery. The tier-2 vendors will get only a few sample systems. -- Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993