Itanium Processor Family is the ne xt generation of64-bit processor for Intel. It is becoming the mainstream platf orm for technical computing and database applications,and Linux has been extrem ely successful in the IA-64architecture.

• 安腾处理器家族是Intel公司新一代64位处理器,它已成功应用于科学计算和事务处理等领域,Linux是支持IntelIA-64平台的主流操作系统之一。