Email to coworkers, probably in 2008 I'm tired of frequent "half-dead" hangs on these Itanium boxes. Nobody responded to my question (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/browse_frm/thread/38bfcd2e70ba2ec). I was hoping to find some technical info about how to debug Itanium CPU prolems. But instead I found all kinds of news and articles about their initial pretentious announcement and serious problems found later on. I'm curious, What prompted us to choose Itanium? Excerpts from the Internet: http://www.karbosguide.com/hardware/module3e11.htm Problems with heating Heating problems have been reported. The Itanium is extremely power hungry and runs very hot. It has been using up to 130 watts in some tests, and this appears to be a really serious problem. The problems should arise from the choice of VLIW design, which should not be suitable for a general-purpose CPU as Itanium as some articles indicate. I am no expert on these issues, and it sounds weird if Intel should choose thewrong architecture. http://www.news.com/Itanium-flunking-Compaq-server-tests/2100-1001_3-275850.html Itanium flunking Compaq server tests Customer interest for Itanium servers is "effectively zero," Joe Marengi, senior vice president and general manager, Dell Americas http://kernel.org/doc/#ia64 The Itanium was a failed attempt to create a 64-bit successor to the x86, a role that went to AMD's x86-64 design instead http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584-5984747.html Itanium: A cautionary tale Eleven years and billions of dollars later, Itanium serves instead as a cautionary tale of how complex, long-term development plans can go drastically wrong in a fast-moving industry. http://www.news.com/Intel-scraps-once-crucial-Itanium-feature/2100-1006_3-6028817.html With the next Itanium chip, Intel has abandoned a feature it once banked on but that never proved successful, CNET News.com has learned. ... The change, which Intel had refused to discuss until now, reflects the company's diminished Itanium ambitions http://www.zdnet.co.uk/tsearch/itanium.htm Itanium 2 Glitch Can Be Avoided - By Going Slow News The recent problem discovered in Intel's Itanium 2 processor can be avoided, but only by forcing the chip to run at a lower speed. The glitch is a circuitry problem that can cause computers with either the 900MHz or 1GHz Itanium 2 processors to... Tags: Processor,Problem,Intel,Chip [Find Related Articles] [May 13, 2003, 16:18] Itanium Shipments Begin To Slip News Servers incorporating Intel's Itanium processor may hit the market at a more gradual pace than earlier anticipated, according to the company. In a keynote address yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, Mike Fister, general manager of... Itanium's Friends Get Together To Push Adoption Talkback After 5 years of failed efforts for Itanium to survive, the ISA needed to bet another $10BN. Itanium is flatlining, volumes are decreasing (just ask IDC), roadmaps have slipped, the #2 and #3 vendors have dropped it and the new #2 is ready for... Itanium Slips Further Into Trouble Leader The pudding hour draws ever closer for Itanium's disciples. But it's hard to see Itanium's roadmap alternations in such a good light. Running at more than 2GHz with a super-fast bus and advanced power management, this dual-core scamp would put... [Find Related Articles] [October 25, 2005, 14:55] http://www.itpub.net/thread-1153578-1-1.html [Literal translation of message #5] Problem solved. Too high temperature in the data center caused hardware abnormalities. After adjusting temperature, restarting disk arrays and RAC server, it was back to normal.