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More on DIG64
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Technical Overviews
Video Tours
What is DIG64? (rm, 1.8MB, :34)
The DIG64 is a set of technical guidelines that define hardware, firmware, and operating system compatibility for Itanium™-based servers. |
Benefits of DIG64 to IT (rm, 3.5MB, 1:12)
DIG64-compliance broadens the choice of applications available to IT managers. When a DIG64 compliant solution is implemented, a single set of hardware can seamlessly run multiple operating systems, with full compatibility and interoperability. |
DIG64 End-to-end Solutions (rm, 4.8MB, 1:30)
DIG64-compliant solutions provide an end-to-end solution, from IO drivers to IO hardware. Assured compability and interoperability reduce total cost of ownership and speed development time. |
Related Specifications
EFI Specification (Extensible Firmware Interface)
The EFI specification defines a model for the interface between operating systems and platform firmware. EFI provides a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications. EFI is primarily intended for the next generation of IA-32 and Itanium(tm) Architecture-based computers. |
ACPI Specification (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces for OS-directed configuration and power management on various platforms including servers. The specification enables new power management technology to evolve independently in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together. |
| SAL Specification (Itanium™ Processor Family System Abstraction Layer). The SAL specification specifies requirements for developing platform firmware for Itaniumô-based systems. It is intended for firmware designers, system designers, and developers of diagnostic and low-level operating system software. The EFI Specification describes additional interfaces that must be implemented to access devices on the platform. |
White Papers for Developers and IT users
Inside the Intel Itanium2 processor
(pdf, 791 KB)
This white paper from HP provides detailed information about the new Itanium 2 processor and EPIC technology. The document discusses the technical aspects of this new technology and provides specific information about performance and other benefits. |
Accelerating the Development of Itanium™ Processor-based Solutions
(pdf, 237K)
This management overview describes the DIG64 and shows how adopting it can help you manage legacy technologies, reduce time to market, and create interoperable solutions based on the Intel® Itanium™ processor. |
DIG64 Guideline Smoothes Technology Migration for IT Community
(pdf, 528K)
The DIG64 guideline can help you minimize legacy issues, reduce costs, simplify network management, and ease your migration to Intel® Itanium™ processor family technology. |
Creating the Possible: Architectures for Electronic Business
(pdf, 94K)
This high-level overview discusses the emergence of the Intel Itanium architecture and its importance to electronic business (e-Business), in terms of its capabilities combined with Intel's vision of an IT organization able to "create the possible" in this rapidly changing environment. |
IA-64 and Oracle: Building Blocks for the Internet Economy
(pdf, 28K)
This joint Intel and Oracle brief discusses the second- and third-generation of e-Business and how Itanium™-based and Oracle solutions will be part of this transition. The alliance between Oracle and Intel is constantly expanding how far you can take your business using Oracle software and Intel® Architecture-based servers. |
The Impact of IA-64 on the SAS System for Decision Support
(pdf, 29K)
The Intel® Itanium™ processor family is built to scale, store, process and access larger amounts of data. When paired with sophisticated SAS applications, end users will use this combination to convert volumes of data into business intelligence and knowledge. |
The Advantages of IA-64 for Business Intelligence Applications
(pdf, 75K)
The Intel® Itanium™ processor offers the 64-bit addressing capability, large number of registers, inherent instruction level parallelism, predication, control and data speculation, and prefetch capability needed to best accommodate these business intelligence applications. |
The Advantages of IA-64 for Directory Services
(pdf, 48K)
Advanced Intel® Itanium™ architecture features, such as predication, speculation, multi-way branching and a large register set, can accelerate the execution of core directory service algorithms. |
The Advantages of IA-64 Java and Other Component-based Development Environments
(pdf, 46K)
The frequent method calls of Java, EJB, and COM+ represent a ripe target for acceleration by compiler techniques that utilize the Intel Itanium processor-based server's predication and speculation features. |
The Advantages of IA-64 Architecture for Security Applications
(pdf, 40K)
The Itanium™-based server will offer new architectural features such as sophisticated loop handling, 64-bit arithmetic and improved instruction parallelism. |
DIG64 in the news
Intel Developers Interop, September 14, 2000
Industry Gathers To Test Itanium™ Processor Hardware, Software Prior To Pilot Release |
DIG64 Release 2.0 Press Release, August 21, 2000
See what the server industry has been saying about DIG64. |
Intel Developers Interop,
June 6, 2000
Industry Leaders Test Readiness Of Intel Itanium™ Processor Hardware, Software At Newly Created 'Plugfests' |
TurboLinux Inc. , May 8, 2000
First Linux Distribution to Work on Developer's Interface Guide for Next-Generation IA-64 Servers. |
DIG64 Release 1.0 Press Release,
August 31, 1999
Industry Leaders Release Interoperability Guide (DIG64) for Merced and the IA-64 Platform. |
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