Edited sentence: It is ideal for massively multi-user systems, lower end processors are more suitable single user systems currently.Itanium 2 processors use an advanced VLIW super-parallel microarchitecture that is able to do roughly 8 times more work per cycle than other CISC and RISC architectures.Most systems sold by enterprise server vendors that contain more than 4 CPU sockets use proprietary non-uniform memory access architectures (NUMA) that supercede the simple and limited  front side bus of 1 and 2 CPU socket servers