Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems
Mainframe-Class Reliability and Availability
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems keeps vital server workloads available to customers, partners, and employees around the world and around the clock.
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Key scenarios that Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems helps address are:
Failover clustering that supports up to 8 nodes
Geographically dispersed clustering that spans network subnets
Seamless, real-time operating system memory back-up
Dynamic hardware partitioning supports Hot/Add Replace Memory and Hot Add/Replace Processor
Itanium RAS features:
Memory Error Correction Code (ECC)
Enhanced Memory ECC
Memory Sparing
Memory Mirroring
Memory Cyclic Redundancy Checking (CRC)
Lockstep Support
Advanced Machine Check Architecture (MCA) with Extensive ECC
Symmetric Access to All Processors
Massive Scalability
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems scales to support tremendous memory and processing loads.
Mission-Critical Performance
The high performance of Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems comes from the features of Intel Itanium processors.
Itanium Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture provides superior Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), resulting in higher performance (up to six instructions can execute per clock cycle)
24 megabytes of on-die L3 cache for low-latency data to both cores on dual-core Itanium processors
128 processor registers
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