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Intel

Xeon

Processor 5500 Series

An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges

“Today is the greatest leap in performance in the history of server processors,” according

to Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel

Corporation. Listen as he introduces the new world record performance of the Intel®

Xeon® processor 5500

∆

series at the Santa Clara launch event.

In many organizations, IT infrastructure has begun to constrain business efficiency

and growth. For the past decade, IT has rapidly added low-cost hardware to accom-

modate business growth. But with data centers now stretched to capacity in terms of

power, cooling, and floor space, IT infrastructure is actually limiting IT from investing

in innovation. IDC estimates that for every dollar IT spends on hardware to support

new users and applications, they spend another 50 cents on power and cooling for

existing hardware.

The Intel® Xeon®

processor 5500

series can dramatically

advance the efficiency

of IT infrastructure

and provide unmatched

business capabilities.

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Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series can dramatically advance the efficiency of IT infrastructure and provide unmatched business capabilities. < View Video | Pause Video “Today is the greatest leap in performance in the history of server processors,” according to Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corporation.
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A Giant Leap for IT and Business Capabilities As data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling capacity, efficiency has become the focus of extending the life of existing data centers and designing new ones. As part of these efforts, IT needs to refresh existing infrastructure with servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more efficiently.
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Performance That Adapts to Your Software Environment Application performance is critical for day-to-day business operations, as well as creating new products and reaching new customers. But many data centers are now at capacity, and new data centers are expensive to build. By refreshing data center infrastructure with more efficient servers, you can deliver additional performance and scalability within the same energy and space footprint.
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Automating Energy Efficiency Maximizing Benefits from Virtualization After decades of IT buildout, server sprawl is escalating system management costs and outstripping available data center space, power and cooling capabilities. In a recent survey, 42 percent of data center owners said they would exceed power capacity within the next 12-24 months, and 39 percent said they would exceed cooling capacity in the same timeframe.7 Energy efficiency is becoming a critical issue in the data center.
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Standard Enterprise Server Intel-based servers are the proven foundation of a dependable IT infrastructure. Now the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series offers a foundation to refresh aging IT infrastructure, overcoming server sprawl and accelerating data center ROI. Standard business servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series boost performance while saving on power and cooling requirements, delivering as much as 2.
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High-Performance Computing Two-processor servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series have up to eight computation engines, 16 threads per two-socket platform with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, and as much as 3.5x more bandwidth than previous generations.21 With intelligent performance technology and a new high-bandwidth interconnect architecture, the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series delivers up to 4x greater performance for HPC applications than Intel dual-core processors.22 Up to 25.
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Workstations Two-processor workstation platforms based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series deliver as much as 2x26 more performance and flexibility to help users solve bigger problems, to build business advantage or to rapidly create, simulate, analyze, and visualize the success of new ideas. With two intelligent processors, these expert workstations provide powerful digital workbenches that enable users to maximize computing and graphics power to solve and visualize largescale problems faster.
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Exploring Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem The new generation of server processors from Intel provides a foundation for a fully adaptable IT environment. The architecture of these processors is designed with innovative features that adapt performance to software and business needs, help energy consumption for optimum performance and efficiency, and enable virtualization strategies that help your IT infrastructure adapt more quickly to your business needs.
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Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology Intel® Intelligent Power Technology Many server and workstation applications lend themselves to parallel, multi-threaded execution. Intel Hyper-Threading Technology enables simultaneous multi-threading within each processor core, up to two threads per core or eight threads per quad-core processor. Hyper-threading reduces computational latency, making optimal use of every clock cycle.
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Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Overview Features Intelligent Performance Benefits • Delivers up to 2.25x performance improvement within a power envelope similar to previous processors.35 Intel® Turbo Boost Technology • Boosts performance for specific workloads by increasing processor frequency. Intel® QuickPath Technology • Delivers up to 3.5x bandwidth improvement for data-intensive applications.
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Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series is available in a range of features to match different computing demands. All processors integrate Intel QuickPath Technology, Intel Intelligent Power Technology and Intel Virtualization Technology. Intel VT FlexMigration, Intel VT FlexPriority, and Intel® 64 architecture§ are standard on all SKUs. Higher frequency versions of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series also support Demand-based Switching (DBS).
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Learn More For more information on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, visit www.intel.com/xeon. For more information about Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem, visit www.intel.com/technology/architecture-silicon/next-gen. 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.