IBM 13N0731 Processor Computer Component

This Intel Itanium processor has a ground-breaking parallel architecture, multi-terabyte memory address space, a massive set of internal execution registers (328 registers), and a 64-bit wide data bus. It is particularly well suited for applications with very large datasets (e.g., many gigabytes or terabytes), complex floating point computations or intensive encryption/decryption (e.g. secure socket layer-SSL) requirements. The Itanium processor's exclusive Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design combines state-of the art speculation, predication and extensive instruction-level parallelism. EPIC executes up to 20 operations per clock cycle, permitting more work in less time.