Microsoft, Unisys demo 64-bit Windows .NET
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At its Windows .NET Server DevCon conference last week, Microsoft demonstrated 64-bit versions of its forthcoming Windows .NET Server 2003 Datacenter Edition and SQL Server products running on a 32-way Itanium 2-based ES7000 system designed by Unisys Corp.
Microsoft and Unisys divided a 32-way Itanium 2-based ES7000 system into two discrete logical partitions. One partition of 16 Itanium 2 processors limited its SQL Server database to 4 GB of addressable memory - the maximum amount of memory available in a conventional 32-bit environment. The other partition of 16 Itanium 2 microprocessors was outfitted with 64 GB of database memory - the maximum amount of memory addressable by Itanium 2.