free and quick access to McKinley (Itanium 2) machines
It seems that a lot of people are unaware of HP's testdrive program (formerly Compaq's testdrive program), so I thought it might be worth pointing out: if you want an account on a McKinley (Itanium 2) machine, you can get one easily at:
Since these are shared & public machines, there are some limitations on what you can do with them (e.g., no benchmarking), but for basic software testing etc., they're very handy and the sign-up process is straight-forward and quick (time between sign-up and account available is a couple of hours).
--david