Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
A Giant Leap for IT and Business Capabilities 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 accommodate 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Intel® Intelligent Power Technology Intel® Virtualization Technology Within a single server, Intel Intelligent Power Technology minimizes power consumption when server components are not fully utilized.
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.
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).
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.
