Getting ready for a 3 day Intel developer workshop in houston. learning more about migrating code to 64bit architectures. should be good, look forward to seeing another state for a change (California recluse!!) witll post back any findings or usefull knowledge I collect. the best part is that we will get our hands on an Itanium 64 server for jsut a tad over 2k (thats ~10k sakings)..

more info:

HP and Intel®, in conjunction with our Workshop sponsor Novell SUSE, have developed a series of tracks/courses designed to help start your migration effort to the HP Itanium®-based server family. These tracks assume a baseline level of knowledge about developing code in similar environments. The focus at this workshop series is on moving existing code to the Itanium Microarchitecture.

and the Course Descriptions