Besides, if a fair comparison between a PC and a Mac is already hard, comparing an Opteron to an Itanium system is 10x as hard. There are just too many criteria, completely different configuration, types of workloads, differences in OS, apps, complilers to make a comprehensive "itanium versus opteron" article. It would be meaningless and almost impossible.
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For the type of thing Itanium is currently used for, you'd have to get a "sample" of a 4+ way HPC machine to compare the two. Most companies aren't too willing to just "give" these away for review.
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