Intel Itanium (IA-64 EPIC)
Realizes: Enterprise/server workloads that attempted to harness VLIW/EPIC scheduling for mission-critical throughput on HP Integrity class machines.
Intel's Itanium (IA-64) combined a 64-bit EPIC/VLIW instruction set with compiler-managed parallelism, predication, and speculation to target enterprise and mission-critical workloads, primarily deployed in HP Integrity servers.
Examples
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HP Integrity rx2800 Itanium server
The HP Integrity rx2800 line paired dual Itanium processors to run HP-UX and mission-critical enterprise databases, showcasing EPIC/Itanium deployments in the mid-2000s.
ENTERPRISE_DATABASE_TRANSACTIONS
HP-UX_WORKLOADS
EPIC_VLIW_EXECUTION
seconds
large
microjoules per operation (2000s CMOS)