ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE

ITANIUM ARCHITECTURE

Abstract
This seminar provides as overview of the architectural details & technology used for new Itanium processor developed by Intel. The objective is to understand need of new EPIC technology used for Itanium series. Each major features of new EPIC technology used for Itanium is described with example.

The introductory section discusses in brief the origin of EPIC technology & its features those are different from traditional technologies .It also discusses the specifications of Itanium processor & versions of Itanium.
The Itanium architecture does far more than just extend the Intel architecture to 64 bit. The uniquely designed EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) architecture allows the highest possible performance via new levels of parallelism for enterprise and technical applications. World-class floating-point performance enhances analytic and scientific design and visualization applications. 64bit addressing and massive resources combine to provide a platform to handle many tera-bytes of data with improved memory latency and fewer branches misses to further improve database performance. The Intel chipset E8870 supporting Itanium2 brings high-end reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) capabilities. With Itanium2 based systems, Intel will deliver on the promise of the Itanium architecture with industry leading performance on broad range of demanding enterprise computing and technical applications