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Intel Xeon Processor- Based Server Selection Guide

Intel processors power a wide range of server options, from entry-level small business servers, to big-data analytic clusters, to scalable, mission-critical enterprise servers designed to support todays most demanding business intelligence and transactional applications. They also include a variety of advanced technologies that can help you solve specific business challenges in todays virtualized data centers and clouds. Choosing the right server configurations to match your specific requirements is essential to ensure the performance, reliability, and security you need, while simultaneously minimizing your total cost of ownership. This guide provides an overview of Intel server processors to help you make informed decisions based on your workloads, your data center deployment models, and your budget.

Specialized Requirements:

Extreme Density (Micro Servers) 1-Processor Servers: Intel Xeon processor E3 v3 family

Extreme Parallelism (HPC) Intel Xeon Phi product family

Media Servers Intel Xeon processor E3 v3 product family

Based on Your Applications and Workloads:SERVER REQUIREMENT PAGE APPLICATIONS AND WORKLOADS INTEL PROCESSOR FAMILY

Mission Critical

Real-time big-data analytics Large-scale database (in-memory and back-end) Data warehousing RISC to IA conversions

Large-scale ERP Real-time transactional systems Intel Xeon processor E7 v21 family

Data Demanding Business Intelligence (BI) Large-scale virtualization and consolidation Enterprise databases

ERP SCM Decision support

CRM Transaction-intensive, such as

e-Commerce

Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family

Standard Infrastructure

Infrastructure virtualization Big data analytics Mail and web Networking File/print

Office and departmental databases Line-of-business Rendering farms

Application servers Technical computing Financial service and Java* applications

Intel Xeon processor E5 v21 family

Cloud

All business applications, from standard infrastructure to mission-critical Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 family Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family

Ultra-low-end web serving Static content delivery Basic dedicated hosting

Some: Media VDI

Some: Gaming Object caching/Memcached

Intel Xeon processor E3 v31 family

Small Business and Departmental

Server consolidation/virtualization All business applications

Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 family Intel Xeon processor E3 v3 family

High Performance and Technical Computing

Digital manufacturing Energy

Financial services Healthcare and life sciences Scale-up HPC

Physical sciences Weather/climate research

Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 family Intel Xeon Phi product family Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family

Based on Your Data Center Requirements:

IT REQUIREMENT1- TO 4-PROCESSOR SERVERS: INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E51 FAMILY 2- TO 256-PROCESSOR SERVERS: INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E71 FAMILY

(WINDOWS*, LINUX* WITH SUPPORT FOR ORACLE SOLARIS*)

Reliability, Data Security Good Best

Performance, Memory, and I/O Scalability1-4 sockets1.5 TB memory (2 sockets)

2-256 sockets (up to 8 sockets natively without 3rd party node controllers)6 TB memory (4 sockets); 12 TB memory (8 sockets)

Targeted Deployment ModelsScale OUT: Rapid, incremental addition of servers to meet business growth demands.Pedestal, Rack, Blade

Scale UP: Fewer, more powerful servers with headroom for demanding applications, heavier peak periods, and business growth.Rack and Blade platforms that scale with the help of third-party node controllers

Choose the Right Server for the Job

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The latest Intel Xeon processors take performance, energy-efficiency, and compute density to new heights, while delivering best-in-class support for virtualization, cloud

computing, in-memory computing, and big-data analytics. Servers based on these processors provide the foundation for a standardized, efficient, and agile data center that

can help you drive down space, power, cooling, and management costs, while providing exceptional performance and reliability across the full range of business workloads.

Energy-Efficient PerformanceIntel Xeon processors offer leadership performance and energy efficiency across multiple industry benchmarks2 in servers that range in size from 1 to 256 sockets.

Ongoing Performance Gains. The latest Intel processors increase performance by up to 100 percent versus the prior generation3,4 and Intel is committed to boosting performance in every new generation across all server types and deployment models.

Intelligent Workload Optimization. Processor frequencies adapt dynamically to workloads to optimize performance per watt at all operating points. Frequencies can be increased beyond rated values for compute-constrained workloads and power consumption is virtually eliminated for inactive portions of the chip.

Advanced FunctionalityAdvanced features are built into Intel Xeon processors to help you keep pace with escalating business requirements.

Hardware-Enhanced Security. Hardware-assisted encryption and advanced launch-time and runtime protections help you protect systems, applications, and data more effectively, at lower cost, and with less impact on application performance.

Superior Reliability. All Intel Xeon processor-based servers are designed, tested, and validated for superior reliability. The Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family extends this advantage, providing advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) capability through Intel Run Sure Technology to support mission-critical applications.

The Intel Advantage

Better for Virtualizationand the CloudThe broad range of cloud-optimized Intel Xeon processor-based servers provides a flexible and efficient foundation for virtualizing all enterprise applications and for moving confidently toward next-generation private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions.

Near-native performance. With extensive hardware assists for virtualization, even large databases and transactional workloads can be virtualized with confidence. Ongoing improvements in I/O performance and virtualization efficiency in the latest Intel Xeon processorsplus the flexible bandwidth provided by 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapterscan help IT organizations sustain high performance across all workloads in demanding cloud environments, while reducing total cost of ownership by up to 66 percent through greater workload consolidation.4,5

Seamless workload mobility. Virtual machines can be migrated without downtime across multiple server generations, so you can establish a single pool of virtualized resources to maximize flexibility and efficiency in your cloud.

Secure multitenancy. Hardware-enhanced security (see page 5) enables sensitive data and workloads to be deployed with greater confidence on shared infrastructure.

Intelligent, scale-out storage solutions. Intel Xeon processors combine high performance and scalability with advanced data protection features for scaling out storage cost-effectively as data volumes grow. Intel Solid-State Drives and Intel Cache Acceleration Software add to these advantages by delivering superior performance and greater efficiency through transparent storage tiering.

Performance and Security for Real-Time, Big-Data AnalyticsHigh-performing and secure clusters are essential for cost-effectively storing and analyzing todays fast-growing, poly-structured data sets. Powerful, large-memory systems are equally important for delivering real-time insights through scalable, in-memory analytics. Intel offers exceptional performance and value for both of these usage models.

The combination of the Intel Xeon processor E5 family, 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters, Intel SSDs, and the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop* software provides enterprise-class support for security and manageability, and has been shown to deliver up to 30 times higher performance4,6 compared with a less optimized solution stack.

The Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 product family provides up to 120 cores, 240 threads and 12 TB of memory capacity per 8-socket server, providing exceptional performance and scalability for real-time, in-memory analytics.

A Compelling Alternative to High-End RISCAccording to IDC, over 85 percent of higher end workloads are now running on industry-standard servers, including business intelligence, data warehousing, database, and enterprise resource planning applications.7 Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family offer robust mission-critical capability with significant system price and price/performance advantages versus IBM POWER7.*,4,8 Businesses are migrating onto these new servers to reduce costs for their most critical applications, and to provide a more flexible foundation for growth and innovation.

Flexible Support for High-Performance Computing (HPC)From desk-side clusters to the worlds largest supercomputers, servers based on Intel Xeon processors offer exceptional performance, flexibility, and energy-efficiency. The Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 family boosts real-world performance for HPC applications by up to 34 percent4,9 versus previous-generation processors and up to 5.8X versus the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. Add one or more Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors per server to increase performance for highly-parallel applications by over a teraflop or more per coprocessor4,10, while maintaining complete software compatibility. Intel provides comprehensive support for HPC, including Intel SSDs, Intel True Scale fabric high-speed switches and adapters, a highly scalable Intel Lustre* file system, and software development tools that can help you achieve better results with less effort.

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Higher Value Throughout Your Business

Advanced Intel Server Technologies

TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION BENEFIT

Scalable, Energy-Efficient Performance

Intel Turbo Boost Technology11 2.0Increases processor frequencies beyond rated values to take advantage of power and thermal headroom.

Delivers peak performance for compute-constrained workloads without increasing power consumption for other workloads.

Intel Advanced Vector Extensions12 (Intel AVX, Intel AVX 2)

Accelerates vector and floating point computations. The most recent enhancements speed 16/32-bit data conversions. AVX2 adds new instructions for faster media transcoding.

Accelerates graphics and provides up to 2x and higher performance gains for vector and floating point operations4,13

Intel Integrated I/OIntegrates I/O onto the processor die to support faster data movement in todays dense, I/O-intensive environments.

Reduces I/O latency by up to 32 percent4,14 and support for the PCIe 3.0 specification increases I/O bandwidth by as much as 2x.4,15

Intel Data Direct I/O Technology (Intel DDIO)Enables direct data transfers from storage to cache. Increases I/O performance by up to 2.3 times4,16 and reduces the need for

performance-sapping memory accesses.

Intel Intelligent Power Technology17Dynamically conserves power and enables advanced power management at the rack, group, and data center levels using Intel Node Manager

Helps to reduce operating costs and improve system reliability through dynamic power optimization and policy-based power management.

Intel Hyper-Threading Technology18 (Intel HT Technology)

Doubles the number of execution threads that can be supported by each processor core.

Increases processing efficiency for multi-threaded applications and for multiple simultaneous tasks.

Advanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)

Intel Run Sure Technology19

Resilient System Technologies Resilient Memory Technologies More than 20 additional RAS features

Enhances reliability and uptime for your most business critical workloads. Helps reduce the frequency and cost of planned/unplanned downtime while also protecting data integrity.

Supports data integrity and uptime equivalent to or better than best-in-class RISC-based platforms, with greater flexibility and superior cost models.

Hardware-Enhanced Security

Intel Data Protection Technology: Intel Advanced Standard New Instructions20

(Intel AES-NI) Secure Key

Intel AES-NI provides seven new instructions to accelerate and strengthen encryption and decryption.

Secure Key provides high quality security keys using an integrated random number generator.

Improves encryption security and performance and reduces overhead to enable the pervasive use of encryption for strong data securitywithout compromising application performance.

Intel Platform Protection Technology: Trusted Execution Technology21 (Intel TXT) OS Guard

Intel TXT ensures that physical servers and virtual machines boot only into cryptographically verified known good states.

OS Guard provides enhanced protection against escalation-of- privilege attacks.

Allows IT to establish trusted pools of virtual resources and to protect systems, applications, and data more effectively from launch-time through runtime.

Hardware-Enhanced Virtualization

Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT)Provides hardware-assists for virtualization in Intel processors, chipsets, and network adapters. Latest innovation reduces overhead by up to an additional 30 percent4,22.

Enables near-native application performance in virtual environments, with improved reliability and enhanced workload isolation.

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Affordable Servers for Small Businesses and MoreIntel Xeon Processor E3-1200 v3 Product Family

1-processor servers ideal for: Most small business workloads Some departmental workloads for larger companies Certain lightweight or graphics-intensive data

center workloads

Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family are designed to meet the needs of small businesses, providing responsive performance and hardware-assisted reliability and securityall at affordable prices. In addition to the Intel server technologies listed below, these servers include Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise23 (Intel RSTe), which protects against hard drive failures, and ECC memory, which automatically corrects memory errors. They also include two security technologiesIntel Data Protection Technology with AES-NI and Secure Key,24 and Intel Platform Protection Technology25 with OS Guard, BIOS Guard, and Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)to support stronger safeguards against todays increasingly sophisticated malware attacks.

Although designed primarily for small businesses, the exceptional energy-efficiency, density, and graphics performance of these servers make them ideal for certain data center workloads, such as media serving, virtual desktop hosting, and static web serving.

KEY INTEL SERVER TECHNOLOGIES:

Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 | Intel HT Technology | Intel AVX 2 | Intel Platform Protection Technology | Intel Data Protection Technology | Intel VT

Flexible and Efficient Servers for Standard InfrastructureIntel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v2 Product Family

2 processor servers ideal for most workloads, including: Standard infrastructure Virtualization, cloud, and big data Technical computing

The Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 family delivers the best combination of performance, energy-efficiency, built-in capabilities, and cost effectiveness for most workloads. Based on Intels industry-leading 22nm, 3-D transistor technology, these processors provide 50 percent more cores and cache than the previous generation, support faster memory, and deliver improved virtualization efficiency. You can expect to see more than 35 percent higher performance across a range of benchmarks.4,26

The Intel Xeon processor E5 v2 family provides a superior foundation for performance and security across native, virtualized, and cloud environments. They consume 40 percent less power than the previous generation4,27 and support Intel Node Manager software to optimize power consumption at the rack, row, and data center levels.

KEY INTEL SERVER TECHNOLOGIES:

Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 | Intel Intelligent Power Technology | Intel HT Technology | Intel Integrated I/O | Intel DDIO | Intel AVX | OS Guard | Secure Key | AES-NI | TXT | Intel VT

Intel Xeon Processor E5-4600/2600/2400/1600 Product Families

The previous-generation Intel Xeon processor E5 family provides a range of technologies to help solve data center performance, efficiency, and security challenges. These processors deliver up to 80 percent4,28 more performance than the previous Intel Xeon processor 5600 seriesand up to 86 percent4,29 higher performance in 4-socket configurations based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 family.

KEY INTEL SERVER TECHNOLOGIES:

Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 | Intel Intelligent Power Technology | Intel HT Technology | Intel Integrated I/O | Intel DDIO | Intel AVX | Intel AES-NI | Intel TXT | Intel VT

Scalable Servers for Business Intelligence and Other Mission-Critical WorkloadsIntel Xeon Processor E7-8800/4800/2800 v2 Product Families

2-256 processor servers ideal for: Real-time business intelligence/business analytics RISC replacement Mission-critical enterprise computing Large in-memory or back-end databases Business intelligence/business analytics Heavy workloads in native, virtual, and private cloud deployments Large-scale virtualization and consolidation Scale-up high performance computing (HPC)

Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E7-8800/4800/2800 v2 product families deliver leadership performance for real-time business intelligence and other demanding, mission-critical applications, with more processors, memory, I/O, cache, and RAS capability than standard 2-socket or 4-socket EP systems. The top-of-the-line Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 product family provides up to twice the performance of the previous generation Intel Xeon processor E7 product family,4,30 with 50 percent more cores and threads, 25 percent more cache, three times the memory capacity,31 four times the system bandwidth,32 and additional reliability and security features. Each socket provides up to 30 threads, 37.5 MB of on-die cache, and supports up to 24 64 GB LR-DIMMS. As businesses race to deploy real-time analytics solutions, the exceptional performance, large memory capacity, and world-class reliability and uptime provided by these servers offer essential new capabilities.

KEY INTEL SERVER TECHNOLOGIES:

Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 | Intel Intelligent Power Technology | Intel HT Technology | Intel Integrated I/O | Intel DDIO | Intel AVX | OS Guard | Secure Key | Intel AES-NI | Intel TXT | Intel VT | Intel Run Sure Technology

Optimized Processors for Your Server Requirements

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Microservers for Lightweight, Highly-Parallel WorkloadsIntel Xeon Processor E3 v3

Most data center workloads run best on two-socket or larger Intel Xeon processor-based servers. However, some lightweight, web-scale workloads such as entry-level dedicated hosting, simple content delivery and static web serving run more efficiently on large numbers of smaller server cores. To improve TCO for these workloads, Intel has worked with server manufacturers to deliver a new low-power, high-density server form factormicroservers.

Microservers based on the Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family provide up to 5.8x greater performance per SSI rack compared to a rack of 1U servers,4,33 and support thermal design points (TDPs) as low as 13W per node. These servers are built for the data center, with support for 64-bit software, Intel Virtualization Technology and error-correcting code (ECC) memory. They offer valuable TCO advantages for sufficiently lightweight workloads in large-scale Internet and service-provider data centers.

Flexible Options for Technical ComputingIntel Xeon processors support a wide range of optimized configurations for HPC and technical computing to help businesses and research centers achieve the best combination of performance, energy-efficiency, and cost across the full range of workloads.

Intel Xeon Processor E5 v2 Family. Purpose-built 2- and 4-socket HPC servers for CPU- and memory-bandwidth-intensive workloads where high performance and performance/watt are critical. Compelling features for HPC include up to 12 cores, 24 threads, 30 MB last-level cache, faster maximum memory speeds (up to 1866 MHz) and enhanced Intel AVX for CPU bound workloads. Support for up to 12 DIMMs per socket (up to 1.5 TB in 2S servers using LR DIMMs) and 4 memory channels meets the challenges of memory bound workloads. Node-to-node latency for highly clustered solutions is reduced with up to 40 lanes of PCIe* 3.0 per socket. These servers are ideal for technical computing, including seismic modeling, digital content creation, financial and design analysis, fluid dynamics, life sciences, and more.

Intel Xeon Phi Product Family. Use these powerful coprocessors to accelerate performance for highly parallel applications. Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors provide up to 61 cores and 244 threads, are IP addressable, can run their own Linux* OSs, and can deliver up to 1.2 teraflops of double-precision performance.4,10 They support a variety of execution modes (dependent, independent, and symmetrical), come in multiple configurations and form factors (including standard PCIe x16 cards with or without cooling), and are fully compatible with software written for Intel Xeon processors.

Intel Xeon Processor E7 v2 Family. These expandable two-to eight-socket servers deliver scalable performance for data-demanding, transaction-intensive, technical computing workloads requiring large individual systems or clustered supernodes. With up to 15 cores and 37.5 MB of shared on-die cache per processor, up to 6 TB of memory in a four-socket system, Intel AVX for CPU-bound workloads, and unique data traffic optimization features, the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family is ideal for accelerating performance on complex, time-critical calculations, and for design analysis, fluid dynamics, life sciences, and more.

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To learn more about Intel Xeon processor-

based servers, go to www.intel.com/xeon

or speak to your local Intel reseller.

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1 Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See www.intel.com/products/processor_number for details.2 For the latest Intel processor-based server performance benchmarks, including test descriptions, results, and disclaimers, visit the Intel web site at: http://www.intel.com/performance/server/.3 Intel internal measurements as of November 2013 ConfigurationDetails OLTP brokerage workload results using Microsoft SQL Server* (transactions per second) Intel Technical Report (TR) #1371. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)scoring3008withSQLServer*2012. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x16GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoring5216withSQL

Server*2012(+1.73x). OLTPwarehouseworkloadresultsusingOracle*11gR2(transactionsperminute)IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1346. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)scoring2740K. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x16GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoring4789K(+1.75x). CommercialGeneralPurposeThroughput(IntegerCompute)usingSPECint*_rate_base2006benchmarkresultscompiledwithIntelCompilerParallelStudioXE2014.1IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1339. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)scoringestimated1100baseline. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoringestimated2288

baseline(+2.08x). HPCApplicationThroughput(Floating-PointCompute)usingSPECfp*_rate_base2006benchmarkresultscompiledwithIntelCompilerParallelStudioXE2014.1IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1339. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)withIntelCompilerFortran13.1scoringestimated

741baseline. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)IntelCompilerFortran14.0

scoringestimated1675baseline(+2.26x). MemorybandwidthusingSTREAM_OMPTRIADbenchmarkresultsIntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1344. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using32x8GBDDR3-1066memory(256GB)scoring101GB/s. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(512GB)scoring243GB/s

(+2.41x). MatrixmultiplicationusingLINPACK_MPbenchmarkresultsbasedonIntelMathKernelLibrary(MKL)(GFLOPs)IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1157band1372. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x4GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB),IntelMKL10.3.0scoring353.6GFLOPs. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoring1235GFLOPs

(+3.50x).4 SoftwareandworkloadsusedinperformancetestsmayhavebeenoptimizedforperformanceonlyonIntelmicroprocessors.Performancetests,suchasSYSmarkandMobileMark,aremeasuredusingspecificcomputersystems,components,

software,operationsandfunctions.Anychangetoanyofthosefactorsmaycausetheresultstovary.Youshouldconsultotherinformationandperformanceteststoassistyouinfullyevaluatingyourcontemplatedpurchases,includingtheperfor-mance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance.

5 Over previous generation Intel processors. Intel internal estimate. For more legal information on performance forecasts, go to http://www.intel.com/performance6 Source: Intel internal measurements. Benchmark run is Terasort with 1 TB of data on Intel XeonE5-2600productfamily.Resultshavebeensimulatedandareprovidedforinformationpurposesonly.Resultswerederivedusingsimulationsrunon

anarchitecturesimulatorormodel.Anydifferenceinsystemhardwareorsoftwaredesignorconfigurationmayaffectactualperformance.IntelproductplansinthisdocumentdonotconstituteIntelplanofrecordproductroadmaps.Pleaseconsultyour Intel representative to obtain Intels current plan of record product roadmaps. For more information, go to http://intel.com/performance

7 Source:IDCsServerWorkloads2008,June2008.8 Configurations:Upto2xperformanceat19percenttheprice/performancebasedoncomparinga4-socketserverbasedonanIntelXeonprocessorE7-8837toa4-socketserverbasedonanOracleSPARCT4-4processorusingtheTPC-H@1,000

GBQphHpriceandprice/performancebenchmarkmetricsasofJune7,2011. Performance:4-socket(4S)IntelXeonprocessorE7-8837-basedplatformdetails:DellPowerEdgeR9104Pserverplatformwithfour(4P/32C/32T)IntelXeonprocessorsE7-8837(2.67GHz/24MB/6.GT/sIntelQPI),1,024GBmemory,Vectorwise1.6database.Referencedaspublishedscoreof436,789QphH@1,000GB;USD0.88/QphH@1,000GBavailableJune30,2011. Source:tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=111050402.4SOracleSPARCT4-4-basedplatformdetails:OracleT4-4withfour(4P/32C/256T)SPARCT43.0GHzprocessors,512GB,OracleDatabase11gRelease2EnterpriseEditionwithPartitioning.Referencedaspublishedscoreof201,487QphH@1,000GB;USD4.60/QphH@1,000GBavailableOctober30,2011.Source:tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=111092601.Upto1.12x performanceat19percentsystemcostbasedoncomparinga4-socketserverbasedonanIntelXeonprocessorE7-4870toa4-socketIBMPower750ExpressserverbasedonaPOWER7*processorusingtheSPECjbb2005bopsscorebench-markmetricandInternetpricingasofJune7,2012.TheIBMPower750ExpressisthemajorityofIBMs4-socketshipmentsandthesystemwetypicallycompeteagainstwiththeIntelXeonprocessorE7familyina4-socketserverconfiguration. Performance:4SIntelXeonprocessorE7-4870-basedplatformdetails:NECExpress*5800/A1080a-S,4xE7-4870(30Mcache,2.40GHz,6.40GT/sIntelQPI),524GBmemory,OracleJava*HotSpot64-BitServerVMonWindows,version1.6.0_26,SPECjbb2005bops=2,783,744;SPECjbb2005bops/JavaVirtualMachine(JVM)=139,187.Source:spec.org/osg/jbb2005/results/res2011q2/jbb2005-20110614-00993.html.4SIBMPOWER7basedplatformdetails:IBMPower750Ex-press(3.55GHz,32core),4xPOWER7processors(IntelligentEnergyOptimizationupto3.86GHz),256GBmemory,IBMTechnologyforJava1.6(32-bitJVM)[buildpap3260sr7-20091215_02(SR7)],SPECjbb2005bops=2,478,929;SPECjbb2005bops/JVM=77,467.Source:spec.org/jbb2005/results/res2010q1/jbb2005-20100205-00800.html.Pricingdetails:IntelXeonprocessorE7-4870:HPDL580systempriceofUSD35,201with4xIntelXeonprocessorE7-4870,128GBmemory,and2harddiskdrives(HDDs)asofJune7,2012,onHP.com.Source:http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/MiddleFrame.asp?page=config&ProductLineId=431&FamilyId=3177&BaseId=36036&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID.IBMPower750Expresspricing:4x3.55GHzPower7processors.Source:IBMAlinean ServerConsolidation:TCOCalculatorforPower(UNIX).Listpricingrepresentstypicalandaverageconfigurationincludingmemory,storage,networkinterfacecables,andchassis.Excludescostofrackandhardwaremanagementconsole(HMC).Price:USD186,347asofJune7,2012.Source:https://roianalyst.alinean.com/ibm_stg/AutoLogin.do?d=811844259353233331.

9 Source:Intelinternalmeasurements.BenchmarkrunisLinpack.TechnicalComputingConfiguration:STREAM:X5570(24GB,HDD),X5680(24GB,HDD),E5-2690(128GB,HDD),E5-2697v2(64GB,HDD);SPECfp*rate_base_2006:X5570(48GB,HDD),X5680(24GB,SSD),E5-2690(128GB,HDD),E5-2697v2(128GB,HDD);Linpack:X5570(24GB,HDD),X5680(24GB,HDD),E5-2690(32GB,SSD),E5-2697v2(64GB,SSD)

10 Claimbasedoncalculatedtheoreticalpeakdoubleprecisionperformancecapabilityforasinglecoprocessor.16DPFLOPS/clock/core*61cores*1.238GHz=1.208TeraFlop/s.11 RequiresasystemwithIntel Turbo Boost Technology. Intel Turbo Boost Technology and Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 are only available on select Intel processors. Consult your PC manufacturer. Performance varies depending on hardware,

software,andsystemconfiguration.Formoreinformation,visithttp://www.intel.com/go/turbo12 AVX/AVX2isdesignedtoachievehigherthroughputtocertainintegerandfloatingpointoperations.Dependingonprocessorpowerandthermalcharacteristicsandsystempowerandthermalconditions,AVX/AVX2floatingpointinstructionsmay

runatlowerfrequencytomaintainreliableoperationsatalltimes.13 Upto2xperformanceboostforfloatingpointoperations(FLOPS):TheIntel Xeon processor E5 product family supports Intel AdvancedVectorExtensions(Intel AVX),whichincreasesmaximumvectorsizefrom128to256bits.Comparedto

the Intel Xeon processor5600series,IntelAVXenablesuptotwicetheworktobeaccomplishedperclockcycleduringfloatingpointandvectoroperations.IntelOptimizedSMPLINPACK10.3.5onLinuxx86_64Intel Xeon processorX5690platform Intel Xeon 5600platformwithtwoIntel Xeon processorsX5690(6-Core,3.46GHz,12MBL3cache,6.4GT/s,B1-stepping),EISTEnabled,TurboBoostenabled,Hyper-ThreadingDisabled,48GBmemory(12x4GBDDR3-1333REGECC),160GBSATA7200RPMHDD,RedHat*EnterpriseLinuxServer6.1withkernel2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64.Source:IntelinternaltestingasofNov2011.Score:159.36Gflops.(TR#1236)Intel Xeon processorE5-2690platformIntel Xeon E5-2600QualplatformwithtwoIntel Xeon processorsE5-2690(8-core2.9GHz,20ML3cache,8.0GT/s,135W,C1-stepping),EISTEnabled,TurboBoostenabled,Hyper-ThreadingDisabled,64GBmemory(8x8GBDDR3-1600REGECC),160GBSATA7200RPMHDD,RedHat*EnterpriseLinuxServer6.1withkernel2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64.Source:IntelinternaltestingasofNov2011.Score:347.69Gflops.(TR#1236).AVX/AVX2isdesignedtoachievehigherthroughputtocertainintegerandfloatingpointoperations.Dependingonprocessorpowerandthermalcharacteristicsandsystempowerandthermalconditions,AVX/AVX2floatingpointinstructionsmayrunatlowerfrequencytomaintainreliableoperationsat all times.

14 Source: The claim of up to 32% reduction in I/O latency is based on Intel internal measurements of the average time for an I/O device read to local system memory under idle conditions for the Intel Xeon processorE5-2600productfamilyversusthe Intel Xeon processor5600series.

15 8GT/sand128b/130bencodinginPCIe3.0specificationenabledoubletheinterconnectbandwidthoverthePCIe2.0specification.Source:http://www.pcisig.com/news_room/November_18_2010_Press_Release16 Source:Theclaimofupto2.3xI/OperformanceisbasedonIntelinternalmeasurementscomparing1-socketSNBdataforanL2forwardingtestusing8x10GbEportsfortheIntel Xeon processor E5 product family versus the Intel Xeon proces-

sor5600series.17 Intel IntelligentPowerTechnologyrequiresacomputersystemwithanenabledIntel processor,chipset,BIOSandforsomefeatures,anoperatingsystemenabledforit.Functionalityorotherbenefitsmayvarydependingonhardwareimplementa-

tionandmayrequireaBIOSand/oroperatingsystemupdate.Pleasecheckwithyoursystemvendorfordetails.18 Hyper-ThreadingTechnologyrequiresacomputersystemwithanIntel processorsupportingHyper-ThreadingTechnologyandanHTTechnologyenabledchipset,BIOSandoperatingsystem.Performancewillvarydependingonthespecific

hardware and software you use. See http://www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading formoreinformationincludingdetailsonwhichprocessorssupportHTTechnology.19 Nocomputersystemcanprovideabsolutereliability,availabilityorserviceability.RequiresanIntel Run Sure Technology-enabled system, including an enabled Intel processor and enabled technology(ies). Built-in reliability features

available on select Intelprocessorsmayrequireadditionalsoftware,hardware,servicesand/oranInternetconnection.Resultsmayvarydependinguponconfiguration.Consultyoursystemmanufacturerformoredetails.20 Intel AES-NIrequiresacomputersystemwithanAES-NIenabledprocessor,aswellasnon-Intelsoftwaretoexecutetheinstructionsinthecorrectsequence.AES-NIisavailableonselectIntel processors. For availability, consult

your reseller or system manufacturer. For more information, see Intel AdvancedEncryptionStandardInstructions(AES-NI)http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encryption-standard-instructions-aes-ni. NOTE: Intel AdvancedEncryptionStandardInstructions(AES-NI)shouldhyperlinktohttp://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encryption-standard-instructions-aes-ni for online versions.

21 No computer system can provide absolute security under all conditions. Intel TrustedExecutionTechnologyisasecuritytechnologyunderdevelopmentbyIntelandrequiresforoperationacomputersystemwithIntel VirtualizationTechnology,anIntelTrustedExecutionTechnology-enabledprocessor,chipset,BIOS,AuthenticatedCodeModules,andanIntelorothercompatiblemeasuredvirtualmachinemonitor.Inaddition,IntelTrustedExecutionTechnologyrequiresthesystemtocontainaTPMv.2asdefinedbytheTrustedComputingGroupandspecificsoftwareforsomeuses.Seehttp://www.intel.com/technology/security for more information.

22 Source:Intelinternalmeasurements.BasedonSPECvirtprojectionsin2012.ProjectionswerebasedontheoreticalmodelsimulationsandtheIntelXeonprocessorE5-2600productfamilymicrocodepatchtesting.For more information, go to http://www.intel.com/performance

23 For more information on Intel Rapid Storage Technology, visit http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/chpsts/imsm.24 Nocomputersystemcanprovideabsolutesecurity.RequiresanenabledIntelprocessorandsoftwareoptimizedforuseofthetechnology.Consultyoursystemmanufacturerand/orsoftwarevendorformoreinformation.25 Nocomputersystemcanprovideabsolutesecurity.RequiresanenabledIntelprocessor,enabledchipset,firmware,software,mayrequireasubscriptionwithacapableserviceprovider(maynotbeavailableinallcountries).Intelassumesno

liability for lost or stolen data and/or systems or any other damages resulting thereof. Consult your Service Provider for availability and functionality. For more information, visit http://www.intel.com/go/anti-theft. Consult your system manufacturer and/or software vendor for more information.

26 SPECint*_rate_base2006 BaselineConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:CiscoUCSC220M3usingtwoIntel XeonprocessorE5-2690(2.9GHz,8-core,20MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,135W),128GBmemory(16x8GB2Rx4PC3-12800R-11,ECC),300GBSAS15K

RPM,RedHat*EnterpriseLinuxServer6.2withkernel2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.Compilerversion:C/C++:Version13.0.0.133ofIntelC++StudioXEforLinux.Source:http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2013q2/cpu2006-20130319-25591.htmlasofFeb2013.Score:681.NewConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:IntelServerBoardS2600CPplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2697v2(2.7GHz,12-core,30MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,130W,C0-stepping),EISTEnabled,TurboBoostenabled,Hyper-ThreadingEnabled,128GBmemory(8x16GBDDR3-1866),RedHat*EnterpriseLinuxServer6.3.CPU2006-1.2withIntelcompilerIC13.1SourceIntelTR#1270asof11June2013.EstimatedScore:906.SPECfp*_rate_base2006

BaselineConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:HuaweiRH2288V2usingtwoIntel XeonprocessorE5-2690(2.9GHz,8-core,20MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,135W),128GBmemory(16x8GB2Rx4PC3-12800R-11,ECC),300GBSAS10KRPM,RedHat*EnterpriseLinuxServer6.2withkernel2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.Compilerversion:C/C++:Version13.0.0.079ofIntelC++StudioXEforLinux;Fortran:Version13.0.0.079ofIntelFortranStudioXEforLinux.Source:http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2013q1/cpu2006-20121211-25284.htmlasofDec2012.Score:503.NewConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:IntelServerBoardS2600CPplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2697v2(2.7GHz,12-core,30MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,130W,C0-stepping),EISTEnabled,TurboBoostenabled,Hyper-ThreadingEnabled,128GBmemory(8x16GBDDR3-1866),RedHat*EnterpriseLinuxServer6.3.CPU2006-1.2withIntelcompilerIC13.1SourceIntelTR#1270asof11June2013.EstimatedScore:638.

ServerVirtualizationBenchmark BaselineConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:IntelServerBoardS2600GLplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2690(2.9GHz,8-core,20MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,135W,C2-stepping),VirtualizationTechnologyEnabled,Turbo

Enabled,HTEnabled,NUMAEnabled,MLCSpatialPrefetcherEnabled,DCUDataLinePrefetcherEnabled,256GBmemory(16x16GBDDR3-1333DRREGECC),128GBSATASSD,ESXi4.1u1(build348481).Source:IntelTR#1359asof24July2013.Score:1723@108VMs.NewConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:IntelServerBoardS2600CPplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2697v2(2.7GHz,12-core,30MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,130W,C0-stepping),Virtualiza-tionTechnologyEnabled,TurboEnabled,HTEnabled,NUMAEnabled,MLCSpatialPrefetcherEnabled,DCUDataLinePrefetcherEnabled,256GBmemory(16x16GBDDR3-1866DRREGECC),128GBSATASSD,ESXi5.1(build799733).Source:IntelTR#1359asof24July2013.Score:2246@144VMs

Enterprise Resource Planning Benchmark BaselineConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:IntelServerBoardS2600CPplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2690(2.9GHz,8-core,20MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,135W,C2-stepping),TurboEnabled,HTEnabled,NUMAEnabled,

MLCSpatialPrefetcherEnabled,DCUDataLinePrefetcherEnabled,128GBmemory,SLES11-SP1,OracleDatabase10.2.0.4,ApplicationSAPECC6.0EHP4.Source:IntelTR#1706asof18July2013.Score:6,847.NewConfigurationandScore on Benchmark: IntelServerBoardS2600CPplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2697v2(2.7GHz,12-core,30MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,130W,C0-stepping),TurboEnabled,HTEnabled,NUMAEnabled,MLCSpatialPrefetcherEnabled,DCUDataLinePrefetcherEnabled,128GBmemory(16x8GBDDR3-1600),SLES11-SP1-GM,OracleDatabase10.2.0.4,ApplicationSAPECC6.0EHP4.Source:IntelTR#1706asof18July2013.Score:9,444.

Server-sideJava*Benchmark BaselineConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:IntelServerBoardS2600CPplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2690(2.9GHz,8-core,20MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,135W,C2-stepping),128GBmemory(16x8GBDDR3-1600),RHEL

6.2.32,OracleHotspot1.7.0_21-b05.Source:IntelTR#1310asof18July2013.Score:40,047max-jOPs.NewConfigurationandScoreonBenchmark:IntelServerBoardS2600CPplatformwithtwoIntel XeonProcessorE5-2697v2(2.7GHz,12-core,30MBL3cache,8.0GT/s,130W,C0-stepping),64GBmemory(8x8GBDDR3-1866),RHEL6.2.32,OracleHotspot1.7.0_40-ea-b2.Source:IntelTR#1310asof18July2013.Score:58,279max-jOPs

27 Source:Intelinternalmeasurements.SPECPpower_ssj2006*basedontheIntel XeonprocessorE5-26xxv2(12C,2.5GHz,130W).IdlepowerbasedontheIntel XeonprocessorE5-26xxv2(12C,2.5GHz,95W).Resultshavebeensimulatedandareprovidedforinformationpurposesonly.Resultswerederivedusingsimulationsrunonanarchitecturesimulatorormodel.Anydifferenceinsystemhardwareorsoftwaredesignorconfigurationmayaffectactualperformance.Intelproductplans in this document do not constitute Intel plan of record product roadmaps. Please consult your Intel representative to obtain Intels current plan of record product roadmaps. For more information, go to http://intel.com/performance

28 Source:Performancecomparisonusingbestsubmitted/published2-socketserverresultsontheSPECfp*_rate_base2006benchmarkasof6March2012.Baselinescoreof271publishedbyItautecontheServidorItautecMX203*andServidorItautec MX223* platforms based on the prior generation Intel Xeon processorX5690.Newscoreof492submittedforpublicationbyDellonthePowerEdgeT620platformandFujitsuonthePRIMERGYRX300S7*platformbasedontheIntel Xeon processorE5-2690.Foradditionaldetails,pleasevisithttp://www.spec.org.InteldoesnotcontrolorauditthedesignorimplementationofthirdpartybenchmarkdataorWebsitesreferencedinthisdocument.IntelencouragesallofitscustomerstovisitthereferencedWebsitesorotherswheresimilarperformancebenchmarkdataarereportedandconfirmwhetherthereferencedbenchmarkdataareaccurateandreflectperformanceofsystemsavailableforpurchase. SPEC*andthebenchmarknamesSPECcpu,*SPECfp,*SPECint,*SPECjbb,*SPECjvm,*andSPECvirt_sc*areregisteredtrademarksoftheStandardPerformanceEvaluationCorporation.FormoreinformationaboutSPECbenchmarks,seewww.spec.org.

29 Upto86%betterperformanceclaimbasedonSPECjbb*2005businessoperationspersecond(bops)benchmarkresultsontop130WTDP2-and4-socketIntelXeonprocessorpublication.(Source:www.spec.org asof22August2012)Baseline2-socketpopulatedIBMiDataPlex*Serverdx360M4-basedplatformusingtwo130WTDPIntel Xeon processorsE5-2680(8C,2.7GHzupto3.5GHzTurbo),64GBmemory(16x4GBDDR3-1600DIMMs),MicrosoftWindowsServer*2008R2EnterpriseEdition,IBMJ9*JVMbuild2.6JRE1.7.0.Score:1,511,987bopsand188,988bops/JVM.New4-socketpopulatedIBMSystemx*3750M4-basedserverplatformwithfour130WTDPIntel Xeon processorsE5-4650(8C,2.7GHzupto3.3GHzTurbo),256GBmemory(32x8GBDDR3-1600DIMMs),MicrosoftWindowsServer*2008R2EnterpriseEdition,IBMJ9*JVMbuild2.6JRE1.7.0.Score:2,818,988bopsand176,187bops/JVM.

30 Intel internal measurements as of November 2013 ConfigurationDetails OLTP brokerage workload results using Microsoft SQL Server* (transactions per second) Intel Technical Report (TR) #1371. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)scoring3008withSQLServer*2012. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x16GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoring5216withSQL

Server*2012(+1.73x). OLTPwarehouseworkloadresultsusingOracle*11gR2(transactionsperminute)IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1346. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)scoring2740K. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x16GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoring4789K(+1.75x). CommercialGeneralPurposeThroughput(IntegerCompute)usingSPECint*_rate_base2006benchmarkresultscompiledwithIntelCompilerParallelStudioXE2014.1IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1339. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)scoringestimated1100baseline. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoringestimated2288

baseline(+2.08x). HPCApplicationThroughput(Floating-PointCompute)usingSPECfp*_rate_base2006benchmarkresultscompiledwithIntelCompilerParallelStudioXE2014.1IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1339. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB)withIntelCompilerFortran13.1scoringestimated

741baseline. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)IntelCompilerFortran

14.0scoringestimated1675baseline(+2.26x). MemorybandwidthusingSTREAM_OMPTRIADbenchmarkresultsIntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1344. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using32x8GBDDR3-1066memory(256GB)scoring101GB/s. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(512GB)scoring243GB/s

(+2.41x).

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MatrixmultiplicationusingLINPACK_MPbenchmarkresultsbasedonIntelMathKernelLibrary(MKL)(GFLOPs)IntelTechnicalReport(TR)#1157band1372. Baselineconfiguration:4-SocketIntel 7500 Chipset-based Server with four Intel XeonprocessorsE7-4870(30MCache,2.40GHz,10Cores)using64x4GBDDR3-1066memory(512GB),IntelMKL10.3.0scoring353.6GFLOPs. NewIntelconfiguration:4-SocketIntelC602JChipset-basedServerwithfourIntel XeonprocessorsE7-4890v2(37.5MCache,2.80GHz,15Cores)using64x8GBDDR3-1333(runningat2666MHz)memory(1TB)scoring1235GFLOPs

(+3.50x).31 Ona4-socketnatively-connectedplatform:Intel XeonprocessorE7familysupports64DIMMS,maxmemoryperDIMMof32GBRDIMM;Intel Xeon processorE7v2familysupports96DIMMs,maxmemoryperDIMMof64GBRDIMM.

Thisenablesa3xincreaseinmemory.32 Upto4xI/ObandwidthclaimbasedonIntelinternalestimatesoftheIntelXeonprocessorE7-4890v2performancenormalizedagainsttheimprovementsoverdual-IOHIntelXeonprocessorE7-4870basedoninternalbandwidthtoolrunningthe

1R1Wtest.33 BaselineRackconfiguration:Intel XeonprocessorE3-1220Lv2.Maximumnumberofnodes,42Urack:411Userver+1x1U48portGbEEthernetswitch.

Performancepernode/rack:BestpublishedSPECint*_rate_base2006scoreof87.3asofApril15,2013.http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q2/cpu2006-20120522-22320.htmlTotalperformance41servers=3579.3;Powerpernode:MaxpowerconsumptionofoneIntel Xeon Processor E3-1220L v2 on a IntelC206basedplatformusingSPECpower_ssj2008,EISTEnabled,TurboBoostEnabled,8GBmemory(2x4GBDDR3-1600UDIMM),64G3Gb/sSATASSD,Windows2008R2SP1.JavaSERuntimeEnvironment(build1.6.0_30-b12),JavaHotSpot64-BitServerVM(build20.5-b03,mixedmode).Source:TR1276,IntelinternaltestingasofMar2012.Score:ssj_ops@100%:195,006,Power@100%:51.3W,Activeidlepower:26.4;Powerperrack:2.3kWtotal.1Uswitch=240W,411Uservernodes=2103WNewMicroserverConfiguration:Intel XeonprocessorE3-1230Lv3;Maximumnumberofnodes:SSIrack=123Uchassiswith144nodes+3x1U48portGbEswitches.

Performance per node/rack: IntelC226chipsetbasedplatformwithoneIntel XeonProcessorE3-1230Lv3(8MCache,1.8GHz,C0stepping),EISTEnabled,TurboBoostenabled,Hyper-ThreadingEnabled,16GBmemory(2x8GBDDR3-1600ECCUDIMM),160GBSATA7200RPMHDD,RedHat*EnterpriseLinuxServer6.3.Compilerversion:13.0ofIntelC++StudioXEandIntelFortran.Source:IntelinternaltestingasofApril2013.Score:SPECint_rate_base2006of143,144nodes=20592Powerpernode:BasedonIntelestimatesof39.3WpernodewithoneIntel XeonProcessorE3-1220Lv3node,EISTEnabled,TurboBoostEnabled,8GBmemory(2x4GBDDR3-1600UDIMM),1xSSD,assumingsharedcoolingresourcesandsharedpowersupplies;Powerperrack:6.4kWtotal.3x1Uswitchesat240Wperswitch=720W,144nodesat39.3Wpernode=6372W

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