I find it hard to believe Itanium would get a SPECint score of 205. I was expecting more along the lines of 500-550, with a SPECfp of about 600. Keep in mind, also, that the liklihood of uniprocessor Itanium systems will be very small. I imagine DP will be the smallest config available, and multiprocessor performance on Itanium is supposed to scale far better than x86. I guess I got distracted, I thought I put the link in.
Life is complex.
It has real and imaginary parts. Life is good. I have seen a demo comparing an Itanium 667MHz system with a Sun 450 USII system. I think both had four processors. Something both chips have in common.