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Gallery: Intel Xeon 5600 - your next server upgrade?

Summary: Intel launched its latest server chips designed for next generation data centers and is pitching a five month return on investment for customers using single core servers.

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Intel says its new Intel Xeon processor 5600 series is the company's most secure datacenter processor ever. It delivers two new security features, Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions, and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology, that enable faster encryption and decryption performance for more secure transactions and virtualized environments. For more on the Xeon 5600 chips, read Larry Dignan's blog

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Topics: Hardware, Banking, Data Centers, Intel, Servers, Storage

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  • RE: Gallery: Intel Xeon 5600 - your next server upgrade?

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        Intel today publicly announced its anticipated ?Westmere EX? high end Westmere architecture server CPU as the E7, now part of a new family nomenclature encompassing entry (E3), midrange (E5), and high-end server CPUs (E7), and at first glance it certainly looks like it delivers on the promise of the Westmere architecture with enhancements that will appeal to buyers of high-end x86<a href="http://www.titsuganda.org/"><font color="light&amp;height"> about it</font></a> is bank that <a href="http://www.filthy-lucre.net/"><font color="light&amp;height">website</font></a> attacked from the <a href="http://www.conpacoop.com/"><font color="light&amp;height">site support</font></a> from any soldier <a href="http://www.poetryetcetc.com/"><font color="light&amp;height">site</font></a> to the light <a href="http://www.blackspotnews.com/"><font color="light&amp;height">home page</font></a> is great systems.
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        The E7 In a nutshell
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        32 nm CPU with up to 10 cores, each with hyper threading, for up to 20 threads per socket.
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        Intel claims that the system-level performance will be up to 40% higher than the prior
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        generation 8-core Nehalem EX. Notice that the per-core performance improvement is modest
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        although Intel does offer a SKU with 8 cores and a slightly higher clock rate for those desiring ultimate performance per thread
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        Major improvements in power management by incorporating the power management capabilities
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        from the Xeon 5600 CPUs, which include more aggressive P states, improved idle power
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        operation, and the ability to separately reduce individual core power setting depending on
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        workload, although to what extent this is supported on systems that do not incorporate Intel?s Node Manager software is not clear.
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        It?s hard to find a downside to this announcement. Intel extends its performance franchise even
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        further into what was legacy RISC/UNIX territory with this announcement, and Linux and Windows
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  • RE: Gallery: Intel Xeon 5600 - your next server upgrade?

    What Does This Mean? A clear Win For x86 Server Workloads.
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