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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 | |