We have simplified our processor brands. Documentation for the Itanium® 2 processor now also applies to Itanium processors of the same model number.
Itanium® processor-based servers deliver the scalable performance, reliability, and headroom for your most compute-intensive workloads, including direct replacement for RISC and mainframe platforms. Because Itanium processors are available in commercial off-the-shelf hardware from a rich ecosystem of system and solution providers, they can quickly meet mission-critical needs.
Itanium processor-based servers are incredibly scalable, allowing configuration in systems of as many as 512 processors and a full petabyte (1024TB) of RAM. Together with full support for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, that capacity provides unmatched flexibility in tailoring systems to your enterprise needs.
Product Information
Explore the following resources for more in-depth information about the Intel Itanium processor 9000 sequence:
Dual-core processing, EPIC architecture, and Hyper-Threading Technology†
Supports massive, multi-level parallelism for today’s data-intensive workloads
Provides headroom for fast access to information and real-time decision making
Delivers fast responses to complex computations
Support for up to 512 processors and one petabyte RAM
Provides scalable performance for enterprise flexibility
Gives IT the ability to increase processor and memory capacity as needed, in an open-ended framework
Up to 24MB of low-latency L3 cache
Prevents idle processing cycles with a high-bandwidth data supply to the execution cores
Fast access to data and improved throughput for memory-intensive applications
Intel® Cache Safe Technology
Allows processor and server to continue normal operation in response to errors that could bring down other platforms
Automatically disables affected cache lines in the event of an error
Enhanced Machine Check Architecture
Automatically detects, logs, and corrects errors
Provides maximum system uptime
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) ±
Reduces virtualization complexity and increases performance
Increases operating system compatibility
Demand-Based Switching
Dynamically reduced energy consumption during typical CPU utilization (in conjunction with enabled OS)
Core Level Lock-step
Enables one processor core to mirror the operations of the other
† Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology) requires a computer system with an Intel® Processor supporting HT Technology and an HT Technology enabled chipset, BIOS, and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. See www.intel.com/products/ht/hyperthreading_more.htm for more information including details on which processors support HT Technology.
± Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) requires a computer system with an enabled Intel® processor, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and for some uses, certain platform software enabled for it. Functionality, performance or other benefits will vary depending on hardware and software configurations. Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled BIOS and VMM applications are currently in development.
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Itanium® processor-based servers deliver the scalable performance, reliability, and headroom for your most compute-intensive workloads, including direct replacement for RISC and mainframe platforms. Because Itanium processors are available in commercial off-the-shelf hardware from a rich ecosystem of system and solution providers, they can quickly meet mission-critical needs.