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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Why Itanium Processors? Benefits of the Brand New Processor Family | |
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Itanium Mission Statement | |
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The Itanium Processor Family | |
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Itanium RAS Features | |
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Reliability | |
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Availability | |
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Serviceability | |
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Reasons for Itanium(r)-based Platform Value | |
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Highly Parallel Architecture | |
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Investment Protection | |
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CHOICE AND Breadth of Operating Systems and Applications | |
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Enterprise Technology | |
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How Itanium Architecture Affects Enterprise Computing | |
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In Summary | |
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The Itanium Processor Family: The Development of the Next Generation of Processor Architecture | |
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Technology Shifts and the Need For Itanium Processor Power | |
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Development of Early Architectures | |
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Architecture Families at Hewlett-Packard | |
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The Development of PA-RISC | |
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Beyond Speed and onto Capabilities | |
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Moore's First Law and its Impact | |
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Moore's Second Law and How the Itanium Architecture Suspends It | |
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In Summary | |
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Planning the Revolution: Developing the Itanium Processor Family | |
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The Itanium Processor Family: Built on Two Impressive Legacies | |
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The Progress of Technology at Hewlett-Packard | |
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At the Start: The Wide Word Project | |
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Itanium as a New Processor Benchmark | |
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The Business Drivers met by Itanium Processor Development | |
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Envisioning the Utilization of Itanium's Power | |
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In Summary | |
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The Next Technology Paradigm: Computing as a Utility | |
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Ideas Behind Three-tier Computing | |
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Computing as a Utility | |
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The Pendulum Swing of Distributed Computing Versus Centralized Computing | |
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Today's Trend: Server Consolidation | |
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The Growth of the Web | |
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Breaking the IT Hardware Spiral | |
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In Summary | |
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The Itanium Adoption Curve | |
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Adoption Curve-A Recognized Phenomenon | |
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Early Adopters and the Early Majority | |
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High Performance Technical Computing | |
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Importance of Itanium Floating Point Performance | |
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Extending the Decimal | |
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Reducing Rounding Error | |
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Itanium Growth in Technical Computing | |
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Itanium Will Quickly Spread into Technical Computing Environments | |
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In Summary | |
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How Itanium Architecture Upholds Moore's First Law While Suspending Moore's Second Law | |
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Semiconductor Functions and Costs | |
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Moore's First Law | |
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Moore's Second Law | |
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Manufacturing Ultimately Drives Moore's First Law | |
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Fab Plant Sticker Shock | |
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Suspending Moore's Second Law-The Battle Plan | |
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In Summary | |
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EPIC-The Appropriate Name for a Breakthrough in Processor Architecture | |
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EPIC's Break From RISC | |
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Untapped Parallelism in RISC | |
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Squaring the Overhead in RISC | |
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Explicit Parallelism | |
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The Register Model | |
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Itanium Processor Register Set Model | |
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Floating Point Architecture | |
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In Summary | |
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Key Architectural Changes in EPIC | |
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Memory Management in EPIC | |
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Memory Hierarchy Control | |
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Predication | |
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Data Speculation | |
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Software Pipelining | |
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In Summary | |
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Total Cost of Ownership Under Itanium | |
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TCO Methodology | |
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ROI Predictors | |
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The Four Main TCO Solutions | |
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HP's Solution Framework for TCO Management | |
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In Summary | |
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The Transition Process | |
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Navigating the Path to Itanium | |
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Conclusions Resulting from the Transition Process | |
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In Summary | |
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The Itanium/HP-UX Transition | |
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The HP-UX Operating System and PA-RISC Architecture | |
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HP-UX Customer Investment Protection | |
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HP-UX 11i on the Itanium Architecture | |
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HP-UX 11i Performance and Scalability | |
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HP-UX 11i Manageability | |
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HP | |