It´s safe to say that Robert Pennington is happy with Intel´s new 64-bit Itanium processor. As associate director of computing and communications at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, he´s responsible for all the production supercomputing systems, including several new Itanium clusters. "We´ve been able to port 32-bit Windows applications to Itanium by recompiling them, and the performance is outstanding," Pennington says.

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