Technologies in HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades

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Processor technologies

HP ProLiant Gen8 c-Class server blades use multi-core technologies from Intel and AMD (shown in Table 1). A multi-core

processor has two or more separate execution cores on one or more physical dies so that it can perform more work

within a given clock cycle. To take advantage of multi-core processing, software must be multi-threaded to distribute

the work across multiple execution cores.

Table 1:

ProLiant Gen8 server

blade

Processor family

Number of

processors

Number of cores

HP ProLiant BL420c

Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 family

1 or 2

4 or 6 or 8

HP ProLiant BL460c

Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 family

1 or 2

2 or 4 or 6 or 8

HP ProLiant BL465c

AMD Opteron 6200 Series

1 or 2

4 or 8 or 12 or 16

HP ProLiant BL660c

Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 family

2 or 4

4 or 6 or 8

Intel Xeon processors

We use Intel Xeon E5-2400, E5-2600, and E5-4600 series processors in the newly introduced 2 and 4-socket ProLiant

Gen8 c-Class server blades. These processors use hafnium-based, 32 nm Hi-k metal gate silicon technology. Xeon E5-

2600 series processors in the HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades have two, four, six, or eight cores and operate from 60 W

(lower power) to 135 W (high performance). These processors feature an integrated northbridge and memory controller.

The processors work with registered DIMMs (RDIMMs), unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMMs), low-voltage RDIMMs (LV RDIMMs),

and load-reduced DIMMs (LR-DIMMs). HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades based on Intel E5 processors use the Intel C600

Series Chipset with one of these E5 processors:

 The ProLiant Gen8 BL420c provides up to two Intel Xeon E5-2400 processors, and delivers up to 1600 MHz speeds

with 12 DIMMs enabling up to 384 GB of HP SmartMemory

 The ProLiant Gen8 BL460c provides up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors with 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-cores. The ES-

2600 handles 16 threads, delivering up to 33 percent higher performance

, with capabilities for up to 130 W

processors without system configuration restrictions

 The ProLiant Gen8 BL660c provides up to four density-optimized Intel Xeon E5-4600 processors, each with up to eight

cores and 130 watts without system configuration restrictions

The ProLiant Gen8 server blades feature these Intel Xeon processor capabilities:

 Processor Internal Sensors and Thermal Control - Protection against over-temperature conditions.

 Cache parity/ECC - Protects cache data from accidental data corruption due to particle hits, etc.

 Legacy Error Mode - Corrupt data is contained before it is consumed to ensure data corruption does not occur.

 QPI Protocol Protection via Cycle Redundancy Check (CRC) - Automatically detects data errors using a checksum of

either 8 bits or 16 bits.

 QPI Link Level Retry - Retransmits when a transient error is detected on the QPI link.

 PCIe Advanced Error Reporting - Enhanced PCIe reporting features such as finer granularity in defining the error type,

ability to specify the severity of each uncorrectable error, error logging, ability to identify the source of an error, and

more.

 Direct Media Interface link (DMI)- A x4 bi-directional chip-to-chip interconnect between the processor and chipset. The

DMI link provides 2.0 GB/s of bandwidth in each direction (Upstream and Downstream).

 Processor internal sensors and thermal control - Protection against over-temperature conditions.

Compared to the Intel Xeon 5600 processor family