By comparison, Intel's Itanium 2 server processor tops out at 1.66 GHz.

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The product, called Primequest, uses up to 32 of Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Itanium 2 processors per box and is designed to utilize both Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )Windows and the open source Linux operating systems.

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