Intel Xeon Processor Selection Guide

SELECTION GUIDE Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers

Dependable, Intelligent: Intel® Xeon® ProcessorBased Servers

Practical Information for Smart Server Choices

Every IT organization has to satisfy a unique mix of server purchase requirements (high performance, reliability, technology headroom, etc.), while working within data center constraints, including budget, floor space, power/ thermal capacity, and many others. Your servers need to fit your deployment strategy (scale up vs. scale out), while delivering optimized support across a broad range of applications. They must also provide a flexible foundation for virtualization and cloud computing, so you can consolidate your infrastructure, drive down your costs, and improve your service levels—even as you continue to add new capabilities to grow your business. Whatever your requirements, you can take comfort in knowing that Intel, the world leader in server technology, has server platforms based on advanced, proven technology to help you deliver more efficient, dependable, and responsive solutions for business. This guide helps you select from the broad range of Intel® processor-based servers.

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The Intel® Xeon® Processor Family The latest Intel® Xeon® processors usher in a new era of intelligent performance that takes energy-efficiency and compute density to new heights, while delivering best-in-class support for virtualization, consolidation, and cloud computing. Servers based on these processors can help you create a standardized, reliable IT infrastructure that helps you drive down data center space, power, cooling, and management costs, while providing exceptional performance and reliability, even for your most data-demanding applications. Intelligent Performance Intel Xeon processors offer leadership performance across multiple industry benchmarks1 in servers that range in size from 1 to 256 sockets. The latest processors boost performance by up to 80 percent versus the prior generation,2 and include advanced technologies to address key data center challenges. They deliver better performance per watt by intelligently adapting processor frequencies to match workloads. They provide hardware assists for virtualization, so you can consolidate more applications on fewer servers with better performance. These processors also provide advanced security features, including Intel® Advanced Encryption Standards New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI),3 which reduces the performance penalties of encryption, and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT),◊ which provides hardware-based resistance to software attacks that occur before the virtual machine boots. With these and other advantages, the latest Intel Xeon processors provide the ideal foundation for the next-generation data center.

Security, Reliability, and Efficiency Intel Xeon processor-based systems are built with advanced features that give you the headroom, reliability, and compatibility you need to keep pace with an ever-changing business environment. Advanced reliability and security features work to maintain data integrity, accelerate encrypted transactions, maximize availability, and provide a foundation for trusted infrastructure. Advanced power management technologies optimize energy-efficiency and virtually eliminate the power draw for inactive portions of the chip, while intelligently ramping up performance for peak workloads.

1 Processor Systems: Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v2 Product Family Servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v2 product family offer a smart investment for small businesses, providing increased responsiveness and stronger security at affordable prices. These servers boost performance up to 30 percent4 versus the prior generation, and provide up to 5.9x better performance than a four-year old desktop with up to 6.5x better energy efficiency.5 Advanced malware protection is provided by Intel® OS Guard and Intel® TXT. Intel® Secure Key and Intel® AES-NI help to improve online security and enable faster and more secure data encryption. Other integrated technologies help to ensure data and applications are always available, including Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) for protecting data against hard drive failures, and ECC memory, which automatically corrects memory errors.

1-4 Processor Systems: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600/2600/2400/1600 Product Families As the world’s most widely deployed server architecture, Intel Xeon processor-based servers deliver proven support for the broadest range of business needs, including e-mail, departmental applications, Java* application servers, financial applications, and more. Servers and storage based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family are the foundation of a flexible and efficient data center that scales readily to meet growing needs. They offer best-in-class performance in virtualized environments and a better foundation for security. They also provide industry-leading energy-efficiency, plus tools for optimizing power at the rack, row, and data center levels.

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Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-4600/2600/2400/1600 Product Families Based on a new Intel microarchitecture and Intel’s leading-edge 32nm process technology, the latest Intel Xeon processor E5 families deliver up to 80 percent2 more performance than previous-generation processors. Additional performance gains up to 75 percent can be realized for customers moving from 2-sockets to the 4-socket Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 product family in the same form factor.6 The Intel Xeon processor E5 family offers more cores, cache, and memory capacity, and include Intel® Integrated I/O, which increases I/O capacity and reduces latency up to 30 percent.7 Intel® Intelligent Power Technology dynamically optimizes energy-efficiency to keep performance high and costs down across the data center. These processors are ideal for demanding technical applications, since Intel® Advanced Vector Instructions (Intel® AVX) boosts performance up to 2x for vector and floating point operations.8 Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series The prior generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series helps IT meet the requirements of the growing data center by intelligently optimizing performance and energy consumption based on application needs. These processors support up to 6 cores, 12 MB of last level cache, and 9 DIMMs per socket. They also include advanced security technologies such as Intel TXT and Intel AES-NI.

2-Processor to 256-Processor Large Memory Systems: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8800/4800/2800∆ Product Families The Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800/2800 product families are ideal for mission-critical enterprise applications and for virtualization and consolidation, where performance, scalability, and reliability are critical. With their expandable designs, these servers increase business and IT agility and help drive down costs. They offer more processors, memory, I/O, and redundancy than standard 2-socket systems and are well suited for data- and transaction-intensive applications. While primarily used in 4-socket and larger servers, there is growing interest in 2-socket systems based on the Intel Xeon processor E7-2800 product family. Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family The top-of-the-line Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family builds on the breakthrough missioncritical capability of the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series (described below), delivering up to 40 percent more performance,9 more resources (cores, threads, and cache), twice the memory capacity, and additional reliability and security features. Servers range in size from 2 to 256 sockets. Each socket provides up to 20 threads, 30 MB of on-die cache, and supports up to 16 DIMMs. With world-record virtualization performance10 and 18x performance per server versus dual-core processors, the Intel Xeon processor E7 family delivers up to 18:1 server consolidation11 to drive down data center power, cooling, and space requirements. The extraordinary scalability and reliability of servers based on these processors make them ideal for replacing legacy UNIX/RISC systems and for hosting the full range of mission-critical applications, including business processing (database, ERP, CRM), business intelligence, large-scale virtualization, and large-node technical computing. Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series Prior-generation Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers delivered a quantum leap in enterprise computing, providing up to 8 cores,16 threads, and 24 MB of cache per processor, and 4 advanced, high-bandwidth Intel® QuickPath Interconnect links. These servers scale from 2 to 256 sockets and provide up to a full terabyte of memory in a 4-socket configuration. With more than 20 new advanced reliability features versus previous generations, the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series is architected for data-demanding and mission-critical applications.

Moving Forward with Confidence

A Superior Foundation for Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Businesses are moving toward end-to-end virtualization to drive down costs and are evolving toward cloud computing to improve efficiencies, agility, and service levels. Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers provide an optimized foundation for virtualizing all enterprise applications and for moving confidently toward next-generation private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions. • The broad range of scalable, reliable, and energyefficient servers provides a flexible foundation for virtualization, consolidation, and cloud computing. • Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) enables near-native virtualization performance with low overhead, even for database and transactional applications. • Intel® VT FlexMigration enables seamless workload migration across server generations. IT can establish a single pool of virtualized resources, which is ideal for the transition to cloud computing. • Advanced security technologies help protect systems and data in virtualized and cloud environments. Intel® AES-NI significantly reduces the performance penalties of encryption. Intel® TXT helps IT establish trusted pools of virtualized resources by ensuring that virtual machines boot only into “known good states.” Both capabilities are valuable when moving data and workloads, especially across federated private and public clouds. • Intel® Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server Adapters provide up to 10x higher bandwidth and up to 45 percent lower power consumption per rack to address growing bandwidth needs in virtualized and cloud infrastructure.12 • Intel Xeon processor-based storage systems combine high performance and scalability with advanced data protection features for scaling out storage cost-effectively. Intel® Solid-State Drives deliver superior performance and efficiency for I/O-intensive applications.

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Intel® Xeon® Processor E7∆ Family

Summary

Outstanding 2-socket performance with 4-socket options for affordable scalability. These servers offer superior energy efficiency and IT value with leading microarchitecture, 32nm silicon technology, multi-core processors, and comprehensive platform solutions designed for high performance, density, and versatility.

Maximize the reliability, performance, and scalability of your standard high-volume servers. Ideal for the most demanding, mission-critical database, ERP, server virtualization, and reducing server footprint through data center consolidation.

Advantages Over Prior Generation

Delivers up to 80% more performance for 2-socket servers than the previous-generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series.2 4-socket servers based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 product family add up to 75% more performance over 2-socket servers based on the E5-2600 for denser-computing solutions.13

More cores, threads, and cache, up to twice the memory capacity, and additional reliability and security features take mission-critical computing capability to new heights.

Advantages Over Competition

Extends the industry-leading performance, energy-efficiency, and compute density of 2- to 4-socket volume servers based on the Intel Xeon processor, while delivering best-in-class support for virtualization, with features such as Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (Intel® VT-c) and Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d). Adapts to workloads to optimize power and performance: Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 dynamically adjusts core frequencies; Intel® QuickPath Technology delivers scalable shared memory architecture with high-speed, point-to-point interconnects. Improved I/O: Intel® Integrated I/O reduces latency up to 30%, while enabling greater I/O capacity and improved bandwidth.

Extends Intel’s industry-leading enterprise performance on multi-socket (MP) processorbased servers. Extraordinary server reliability keeps your mission-critical workloads running. Socket scaling supports systems with up to 256 processors, providing scalable performance for the largest and most data-demanding workloads. Virtualization technologies across the entire platform enable near-native VM performance for demanding workloads with exceptionally high VM densities. These servers also support the economical use of multigenerational Intel Xeon processor-based systems in a single virtualization pool.

Advanced security features help to protect systems and data more effectively, to reduce costs associated with malware protection/remediation, data breaches, and data loss. • Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) significantly reduces the performance penalties usually experienced with pervasive encryption. • Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) helps to increase malware protection through measured launches into “known good states.” IT Benefits

Outstanding virtualization headroom in a 2-socket platform (and even greater headroom in affordable 4-socket servers) to support higher consolidation ratios with better application performance. Lower operating costs through intelligent and automated management of processor resources to optimize performance and energy-efficiency across all workloads.

Ideal for virtualizing and consolidating data-demanding enterprise applications.14 Most virtualization headroom…period. 10-core (20 thread) processing supports the highest consolidation ratios of any Intel Xeon processor.15 System power and OS licensing cost savings of over 90% via 18:1 consolidation of older 4-socket systems using dual-core processors.10

Sockets

1-4

2-256

Number of Cores

4, 6, or 8

6, 8, or 10

Frequency

Up to 3.3 GHz

Up to 2.4 GHz

On Die Cache

Up to 20 MB shared L3

Up to 30 MB shared L3

Interconnect Type and Speed

Quick Path Interconnect (up to 8.0 GT/s)

Quick Path Interconnect (up to 6.4 GT/s)

Memory Type

DDR3

DDR3

Max Memory Capacity

Up to 768 GB (2S); Up to 1.5 TB (4S)

Up to 2 TB (4S); Up to 4 TB (8S)

I/O Type

Intel Integrated I/O supporting latest PCIe* 3 specification PCIe Gen 2 and PCIe

I/O Capacity

Better

Best

Microarchitecture

Intel® Microarchitecture (Sandy Bridge)

Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem)

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology§

Yes (select processors)

Yes (select processors)

Yes (select processors)

Yes (select processors)

Yes

Yes

Yes (with FlexMigration)

Yes (with FlexMigration)

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology Intelligent Power Technology

Φ

‡

Intel® Virtualization Technology+ System Level Reliability

Better

Best

System Expandability and Scalability

Better

Best

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Micro Servers

New Cost Efficiencies for Lightweight, Highly Parallel Workloads Most data center workloads run best on two-socket or larger Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, but some lightweight, highly-parallel workloads run more efficiently on large numbers of smaller servers. Examples include ultra-low-end Web serving, static content delivery, and basic dedicated hosting, as well as some analytics and non-relational database applications. To improve density and energy-efficiency for these workloads, Intel has worked with server manufacturers to deliver a new class of micro servers. Current micro servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3 v2 family support power options as low as 15W per node. Additional platforms based on the Intel® Atom™ processor are expected to launch in 2012 and deliver sub-10W power options. All of these servers include support for 64-bit software, Intel® Virtualization Technology, and error-correcting code (ECC) memory. These new micro servers are expected to play an increasingly important role in large-scale Internet and service provider data centers, as well as other environments in which low-power, dense servers may be more efficient than fewer, more robust servers.

A Compelling Alternative to RISC

Better Value with Standards-Based Servers According 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.16 In the current economic environment, IT managers have a strong desire to eliminate the high costs and inflexibility of proprietary RISC architectures. Many are migrating away from RISC-based systems to Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, even for mission-critical solutions where the highest levels of scalability and availability are required. Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family and Intel Xeon processor E7 family are offered at substantially lower prices and provide significantly better price/ performance than servers based on the Oracle UltraSPARC* T2+ processor, the Fujitsu SPARC64VII* processor and the IBM POWER 7* processor.17

Matching the Server to the Job and the Data Center Selecting the right architecture and server platform for your data center pays dividends today, as well as over time. Maximum IT value is achieved by balancing critical purchase criteria such as performance, cost, reliability, and power consumption to best fit your application requirements and desired deployment model.

Step 1: What Do Your Applications Demand of Your Servers? Applications and the users who rely on them vary in their requirements. Infrastructure applications such as e-mail, networking, and office databases demand cost-effective capacity. Enterprise applications such as analytics and ERP require higher performance and data bandwidth. Start by choosing the most cost-effective server that meets the needs of your application. The table below can help. Requirement

Applications

Best Value

Mission-Critical Computing Highly scalable, most reliable computing platform for mission-critical IT workloads

• Large database applications • Data warehousing • Large-scale ERP • L arge-scale business analytics •R  eal-time transaction systems

Highest Scalability/ Availability Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family-based servers

Data Demanding Compute power and headroom for dataand transactionintensive applications

•S  erver consolidation/ virtualization • Enterprise databases • Business Intelligence (BI) • ERP • SCM • Decision support • CRM •T  ransaction-intensive applications such as e-Commerce

Powerful Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family-based servers

Standard Infrastructure Cost-effective, easy-tomanage performance and capacity for standard business applications

• Infrastructure virtualization • Mail and web • Networking • File/print •O  ffice or department databases • L ine-of-business applications • Rendering farms • Application servers • Technical computing •S  cale-out of financial service and Java* applications

Versatile Intel® Xeon® processor E5 family-based servers

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Step 2: Optimize Data Center Value Servers need to fit your data center deployment model and budget, as well as the applications they host. The following table matches Intel processor-based servers to data center needs: Good

Better

Best

1- to 4-Processor Servers: Intel® Xeon® Processor E5∆ Family

2- to 256-Processor Servers: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7∆ Family

1-4 sockets 768 GB memory (2S) 1.5 TB memory (4S)

2-256 sockets 2 TB memory (4 socket)

Companies choose server deployment models that best fit their business model and IT strategy.

Scale OUT provides a rapid method of adding incremental smaller IT resources to meet business growth demands. Pedestal, Rack, Blade

Scale UP enables the deployment of fewer, more powerful servers with the capability to handle more demanding applications and built-in headroom to handle peak periods and business growth. Rack and Blade

64- and 32-bit application and operating system support for the broadest array of today’s leading mainstream and mainframeclass operating systems.

Predominantly Windows* and Linux* with support for Solaris*

Predominantly Windows* and Linux* with support for Solaris*

Feature

Benefit

Reliability, Data Security

Always-on server availability and unique architectural and platform security features aimed at protecting and verifying real-time accuracy of business-critical data.

Performance, Memory, and I/O Scalability

Support for more processors, memory, and I/O in the same system. Higher scalability usually means more application performance per server.

Server Deployment Model

Application Migration Versatility

High Performance Computing (HPC) and Technical Computing High Performance Computing and technical computing applications vary widely in their response to different server architectures. Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family: Purpose-built 2- and 4-socket HPC servers for CPU- and memory-bandwidth-intensive workloads where high performance and performance per Watt are critical. These processors are ideal for technical applications, since Intel® AVX boosts performance up to 2x for floating point operations.18 Compelling features for HPC include up to 8 cores, 16 threads, and Intel AVX for CPU bound workloads. Support for up to 12 DIMMs per socket (up to 768 GB in 2S; 1.5 TB in 4S) 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. Other performance-enhancing features include Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology. These well-balanced servers are ideal for technical computing, including seismic modeling, digital content creation, financial and design analysis, fluid dynamics, life sciences, and more.

Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family: These expandable 2- to 8-socket servers deliver scalable performance for data-demanding, transactionintensive, technical computing workloads requiring individual or clustered systems based on large-memory, high-core-count supernodes. With up to 10 cores and 30 MB of shared on-die cache per processor, up to 2 TB of memory in a 4-socket system, and unique data traffic optimization features, the Intel Xeon processor E7 family is ideal for accelerating performance on complex, time-critical calculations. Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 Family: For deployments seeking lowest cost and highest density. Small form factor single-processor servers offer cost-sensitive buyers great performance for 64-bit applications, such as web farms and financial analysis, and for extending HPC in density-challenged data centers.

To learn more about Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, go to www.intel.com/xeon or speak to your local Intel reseller.

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. Intel® Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with an enabled Intel® processor, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and, for some uses, certain platform software enabled for it. Functionality, performance or other benefits will vary depending on hardware and software configurations and may require a BIOS update. Software applications may not be compatible with all operating systems. Please check with your application vendor. ◊ No computer system can provide absolute security under all conditions. Intel® Trusted Execution Technology is a security technology under development by Intel and requires for operation a computer system with Intel® Virtualization Technology, an Intel Trusted Execution Technology-enabled processor, chipset, BIOS, Authenticated Code Modules, and an Intel or other compatible measured virtual machine monitor. In addition, Intel Trusted Execution Technology requires the system to contain a TPMv1.2 as defined by the Trusted Computing Group and specific software for some uses. See http://www.intel.com/technology/security/ for more information. § Requires a system with Intel® 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, and system configuration. For more information, visit http://www.intel.com/go/turbo Φ Hyper-Threading Technology requires a computer system with an Intel® processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology and an HT Technology enabled chipset, BIOS and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. See http://www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading/ for more information including details on which processors support HT Technology. ‡ Intel® Intelligent Power Technology requires a computer system with an enabled Intel® processor, chipset, BIOS and for some features, an operating system enabled for it. Functionality or other benefits may vary depending on hardware implementation and may require a BIOS and/or operating system update. Please check with your system vendor for details. 1 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/ 2 Source: Performance comparison using best submitted/published 2-socket server results on the SPECfp*_rate_base2006 benchmark as of 6 March 2012. Baseline score of 271 published by Itautec on the Servidor Itautec MX203* and Servidor Itautec MX223* platforms based on the prior generation Intel® Xeon® processor X5690. New score of 492 submitted for publication by Dell on the PowerEdge T620 platform and Fujitsu on the PRIMERGY RX300 S7* platform based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690. For additional details, please visit http://www.spec.org. Intel does not control or audit the design or implementation of third party benchmark data or Web sites referenced in this document. Intel encourages all of its customers to visit the referenced Web sites or others where similar performance benchmark data are reported and confirm whether the referenced benchmark data are accurate and reflect performance of systems available for purchase. 3 Intel® AES-NI requires a computer system with an AES-NI enabled processor, as well as non-Intel software to execute the instructions in the correct sequence. AES-NI is available on select Intel® processors. For availability, consult your reseller or system manufacturer. For more information, see Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard Instructions (AES-NI) http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encryption-standard-instructions-aes-ni/ 4 30% better performance on Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1280 compared to Intel® Xeon® Processor X3480 on SPECjvm*2008 based on Intel performance estimates as of December 2010. 5 Averaged normalized performance and performance/watt of three SMB workloads (e-mail, database, and web) on a 1S server based on Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1240 is up to 5.9x better and up to 6.5x more energy-efficient than a desktopbased server using Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E6400 based on the results of a study conducted by Principled Technologies. 6 Source: Claim based on performance comparisons using best measured 2- and 4-socket server results on the SPECjbb*2005 benchmark as of 1 March 2012. Server-side Java* - SPECjbb*2005 (Source: TR#1228) Baseline 2-socket populated Intel® C606 Chipset-based customer reference server using two Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2690 (8C, 20M Cache, 2.9GHz, 8.0GT/s Intel QPI), 32GB memory (8x 4GB DDR3-1600 DIMMs), Microsoft Windows Server* 2008R2 Enterprise Edition, Oracle HotSpot* 64-bit Server VM build 20,0-v11 using Java* SE RE 1.6.0 Update 25. Score: 1,520,408 bops. New 4-socket populated Intel® C606 Chipset-based customer reference server with four Intel® Xeon® processors E5-4650 (8C, 20M Cache, 2.7GHz, 8.0GT/s Intel QPI), 128GB memory (16x 8GB DDR3-1600 DIMMs), Microsoft Windows Server* 2008R2 Enterprise Edition, Oracle HotSpot* 64-bit Server VM build 20,0-v11 using Java* SE RE 1.6.0 Update 25. Score: 2,663,768 bops. 7 Intel measurements of average time for an I/O device read to local system memory under idle conditions. Improvement compares Xeon processor E5-2600 product family (230 ns) vs. Xeon processor 5500 series (340 ns). Baseline Configuration: Green City system with two Intel® Xeon processor E5520 (2.26GHz, 4C), 12GB memory @ 1333, C- States Enabled, Turbo Enabled. New Configuration: Meridian system with two Intel(r) Xeon processor E5-2665 (C0 stepping, 2.4GHz, 8C), 32GB memory @1600 MHz, C-States Enabled, Turbo Enabled. The measurements were taken with a LeCroy* PCIe* protocol analyzer using Intel internal Rubicon (PCIe* 2.0) and Florin (PCIe* 3.0) test cards running under Windows* 2008 R2 w/SP1. 8 Performance comparison using Linpack benchmark. Baseline score of 159.4 based on Intel internal measurements as of 5 December 2011 using a Supermicro* X8DTN+ system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5690, Turbo Enabled, EIST Enabled, Hyper-Threading Enabled, 48 GB RAM, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1 beta for x86_6. New score of 347.7 based on Intel internal measurements using an Intel® Rose City platform with two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690, Turbo Enabled or Disabled, EIST Enabled, Hyper-Threading Enabled, 64 GB RAM, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1 beta for x86_6. 9 Up to 40% generational compute-intensive throughput claim based on SPECint*_rate_base2006benchmark comparing next generation Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI, codenamed Westmere-EX) scoring 1,010 (includes Intel Compiler XE2011 improvements accounting for about 11% of the performance boost) to X7560 (24M cache, 2.26GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel QPI, formerly codenamed Nehalem-EX) scoring 723 (Intel Compiler 11.1). Source: Intel SSG TR#1131. 10 World-record virtualization performance claim based on all published VMmark* 1.x results on http://www.ideasinternational.com/Benchmark-Top-Ten/VMmark-1-x. Top-ranked Fujitsu PRIMERGY* RX600 S5 uses four Intel®Xeon® processor X7560 (24M cache, 2.26GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel QPI). 11 Up to 18:1 server consolidation performance with return on investment in about one year” claim estimated based on comparison between 4S MP Intel® Xeon® processor 7041 (dual-core with Intel® HyperThreading Technology, 4M cache, 3.00GHz, 800MHz FSB, formerly code named Paxville) and 4S Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.4GT/s Intel® QPI, code named Westmere-EX) based servers. Calculation includes analysis based on performance, power, cooling, electricity rates, operating system annual license costs and estimated server costs. This assumes 42U racks, $0.10 per kWh, cooling costs are 2x the server power consumption costs, operating system license cost of $900/ year per server, per server cost of $36,000 based on estimated list prices, and estimated server utilization rates. All dollar figures are approximate. Estimated SPECint*_rate_base2006 performance and power results are measured for Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 and estimated for Intel Xeon processor 7041 based servers. Platform power was measured during the steady state window of the benchmark run and at idle. Performance gain compared to baseline was 18x (truncated). Baseline platform: (measured score of 54.6; idle = 546W; active = 812W): Intel server with four Intel® Xeon® processor 7041 processors, 16GB memory (16x 2GB DDR2-400), 1 hard drive, 1 power supply, Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition R2 operating system, Intel Compiler 11 built SPECcpu* 2006 November 2009 binaries. New platform: (measured score of 1,000; idle = 552W; active = 1053W): Intel internal reference server with four Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), 256GB memory (64 x Samsung 4GB 2Rx8 PC3L10600R), 1 hard drive, 3 power supplies, using SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system, Intel C++ and Fortran Composer XE2011 built SPECcpu* 2006 January 2011 binaries. Source: Intel SSG TR#1131. 12 This ROI calculator is a cost comparison for a highly virtualized solution, using multiple 1GbE connections versus a dual port 10GbE implementation. In the 1GbE solution we use in each server two Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapters, in addition to two LOM connections with a total system bandwidth of 10 Gb. This is then compared with a 10GbE solution, using one Intel® 10 Gigabit AF DA Dual Port Server Adapter and a total system bandwidth of 20Gb. These adapters are connected to a top-of-rack 10GbE switch using passive direct attach twinax coax cables http://www.event-management-online.de/LAD/calculator.aspx 13 Performance comparison using SPECjbb*2005 business operations per second (bops) benchmark results. (Source: TR#1228 as of 12 December 2011) Baseline 2-socket populated Intel® S2600CP Server Board-based platform using two Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2690 (8C, 2.9GHz up to 3.3GHz Turbo), 32GB memory (8x 4GB DDR3-1600 DIMMs), Microsoft Windows Server* 2008R2 Enterprise Edition, Oracle HotSpot* 64-bit Server VM build 20,0-v11 using Java* SE RE 1.6.0 Update 25. Score: 1,520,408 bops. New 4-socket populated Intel® C606 Chipset-based customer reference server with four Intel® Xeon® processors E5-4650 (8C, 2.7GHz up to 2.9GHz Turbo), 128GB memory (16x 8GB DDR3-1600 DIMMs), Microsoft Windows Server* 2008R2 Enterprise Edition, Oracle HotSpot* 64-bit Server VM build 20,0-v11 using Java* SE RE 1.6.0 Update 25. Score: 2,663,768 bops. 14 As compared to systems based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series or earlier processor generations. 15 More virtualization headroom claimed based on industry-standard benchmarks SPECvirt*_sc2010 and VMmark* 2.1 where 8-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processor E7 hold the top record for number of tiles or VMs supported. See http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-e7-summary.html for the performance summary. 16 Source: IDC’s Server Workloads 2008, June 2008. 17 HP DL580 Intel® Xeon® processor X7460 2.66 GHz 4P/24C, 32 GB memory, SAP*-SD 2 Tier 5155 SDs at system price $26,233 compared to SUN UltraSPARC*T2+ T5240, 128 GB memory, SAP*-SD 2 Tier 4170 SDs at system price $64,795, compared to SUN UltraSPARCT*2+ T5440, 128 GB memory, SAP*-SD 2 Tier 7520 SDs at system price $129,995. POWER system comparison is versus a POWER 550/570 IBM POWER7. 18 Up to 2x performance boost for floating point operations (FLOPS): The Intel® Xeon® processor E5 product family supports Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX), which increases maximum vector size from 128 to 256 bits. Compared to the Intel®Xeon® processor 5600 series, Intel AVX enables up to twice the work to be accomplished per clock cycle during floating point and vector operations. Intel Optimized SMP LINPACK 10.3.5 on Linux x86_64 Intel® Xeon® processor X5690 platform Intel® Xeon® 5600 platform with two Intel® Xeon® processors X5690 (6-Core, 3.46GHz, 12MB L3 cache, 6.4GT/s, B1-stepping), EIST Enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Hyper-Threading Disabled, 48GB memory (12x 4GB DDR31333 REG ECC), 160GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1 with kernel 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 . Source: Intel internal testing as of Nov 2011. Score: 159.36 Gflops. (TR#1236) Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690 platform Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 Qual platform with two Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2690 (8-core 2.9GHz, 20M L3 cache, 8.0GT/s, 135W, C1-stepping), EIST Enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Hyper-Threading Disabled, 64GB memory (8x 8GB DDR3-1600 REG ECC), 160GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 6.1 with kernel 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 . Source: Intel internal testing as of Nov 2011. Score: 347.69 Gflops. (TR#1236) ∆ +

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