Intel Roadmap Directions 2006 a Resource Guide for Cios and IT Professionals
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Intel Roadmap Directions 2006 A Resource Guide for CIOs and IT Professionals October – December 2006 Continuing its initiatives to constantly increase performance of desktop, mobile and server platforms, Intel now ushers in a path- breaking technology that is sure to change the world of computers. Intel has launched the industry's first Quad-Core processors that provide breakthrough performance and capabilities. Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors for the ultimate in powerful, dense and energy efficient servers and Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core processors for desktop platforms. This edition of the Intel Roadmap Directions gives you more information on the new Multi-Core microarchitecture for servers, desktops and shows you how they will impact the performance of your IT infrastructure. Redefining performance with Multi-Core IT managers are continually faced with providing more Intel multi-core platforms will enhance computing experience services to more users, meeting higher performance by: expectations, storing and managing ever-growing amounts l Improving performance of today’s existing multi-threaded of data, maintaining availability and stability, and improving applications security. To meet many of these challenges, they’ve turned l Boosting overall system performance while remaining to Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and Intel® Xeon® processors. within acceptable power and thermal envelopes And now a transformative technology such as the Intel® multi-core processor-based platform has come along to l Increasing responsiveness of applications in multi-tasking dramatically push performance to a new level, solve pressing environments challenges, and provide new avenues for innovation. Today’s l Enabling new applications and humanlike intelligence in multi-core server processors are a critical industry inflection desktop, laptop, and other small form factors that may point. By the end of the decade, Intel envisions them require high performance computing-like performance delivering a 10X performance gain. l Improving ease-of-use with more humanlike interfaces l Expanding the ways we can use our computers to mine and synthesise information, as well as create, innovate, and communicate Inside Quad-Core processors Intel® Core™ 4 Processing Cores microarchitecture Core 0 Core 1 Core 2 Core 3 Breakthrough Performance Energy Efficient Performance 32KB 32KB 32KB 32KB 32KB 32KB 32KB 32KB L1 I L1 D L1 I L1 D L1 I L1 D L1 I L1 D Cache Cache Cache Cache Cache Cache Cache Cache 4 MB Shared 4 MB Shared Large L2 Caches Socket compatible to L2 Cache L2 Cache Quick access to data 45nm Quad-Core IT Investment protection Front Side Bus Front Side Bus Multi-Core processors are essential to maintaining Interface Interface the performance gains we’ve grown accustomed to from computers as we continually ask them to do more for us. An Intel-sponsored Harris Interactive Up to 1333 MHz FSB High Bandwidth survey* found that 9 out of 10 users reported problems while trying to perform multiple processor-intensive tasks. Problems include Leading Performance, Lower Cost, High Volume computer freezes, time lags, function shut downs, chopping off screens and audio distortion. For more information visit http://www.intel.com/multi-core/ Introducing the world’s first Quad-Core processors Four Cores. One Processor. Outstanding Performance. Intel brings you the world's first quad-core processor for The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series is Intel's standard high volume two-processor server platforms. Intel premier solution for the growing computing and data needs offers IT departments further leaps in performance and of many business-critical applications, and provides the most performance/watt, building on proven industry leadership by headroom (threads and performance) for virtualised server breaking the current performance records held by the environments of any dual processor standard high volume Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5100~ series. server platform. Combined with the Intel® 5000 chipset family and Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) memory The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor technology, the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor ~ 5300 series: 5300 series-based platforms are expected to deliver Breakthrough performance from the world's first quad-core breakthrough performance with better power efficiency, processor for mainstream servers — faster, more powerful, delivering up to 1.5 times the performance compared to and more efficient, the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor leading Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 series in the 5300 series is the industry's first quad-core processor for same power envelope and up to 2.5 times the performance dual processor (DP) servers and workstations. Built on Intel® compared to the best published results of AMD Opteron* Core™ microarchitecture, these processors deliver industry Model 22201 . leading performance and virtualization, and offer: › Quad-core processing: Maximises performance and Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5355 200 performance/watt for greater performance per square foot Higher is better Intel® Core™2 Extreme for data center infrastructures and highly dense deployments 104 3.52 Quad-Core processor— World’s • Increases performance and threading headroom for multi- First Quad-Core for the threaded applications and heavy multi-tasking scenarios, plus 120 80.7 2.38 Desktop. helps boost system utilisation through virtualization and application responsiveness. The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor is the world’s first 42.9 Intel® Core™ microarchitecture: Better performance on 33.8 1.18 quad-core desktop processor, delivering the latest in multiple application types and user environments, while cutting edge processor technology. reducing cooling challenges, enabling more capable, denser General Purpose Scientific 2P Database Computing Computing Performance Bringing unprecedented performance across a wide data center deployments. range of applications and benchmarks, the Intel® Core™2 Large 8 MB of on-die L2 cache: Increases efficiency of L2 Extreme processor provides another giant leap forward cache-to core data transfers, maximising main memory to SPECint_rate2000* SPECfp_rate2000* OLTP on the road to multi-core and parallel computing.Today’s Single-Core Intel® Xeon® processor (3.80 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache) processor bandwidth and reducing latency. • Up to 4 MB of multimedia applications, such as 3D modeling and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5160 (3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz) L2 cache can be allocated to one core. video/audio editing and rendering, focus on threaded Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5355 (2.66 GHz, 1333 MHz) computing for performance and demonstrate amazing 1066 and 1333 MHz system bus: Fast, dedicated front- scalability with quad-core processors. side buses for increased throughput. For more information visit http://www.intel.com/quad-core/ Intel® Xeon® processors at a glance The breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, and reliability of Intel® Xeon® processor-based server systems make them the ideal choice for all of your data demanding and standard enterprise infrastructure applications, virtualization and consolidation projects or high-density data center deployments. Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 Series 5300 Series 7100 Series Maximum price/performance for Maximise performance/density and performance/ Maximum performance, reliability and standard, general-purpose applications watt with the highest performance performance scalability available for standard computing where cost is key priority available for 2-way servers running on data demanding applications high-performing infrastructure applications Advantages over Up to 3X more performance and more Best available performance/watt for a server: 2.5x the performance and nearly 3 times prior generation than 3X power efficiency over Get up to 50% more performance than Intel® more performance per watt than the previous single-core Intel® Xeon® Xeon® processor 5100 series in the same previous Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor processor-based servers.iii envelope 7000 series, supporting more users and data transactions within a cooler data centeriii . Advantages Leading performance on 20+standard Industry ’s first quad-core technology further Up to 1.5x better performance than the over AMD 2-way benchmark applications. extends Xeon ’s performance/server and competition with the help of the16 MB Opteron* based performance/watt advantage over competing shared L3 cachevii . servers Up to 48% more performance/chassisiv servers at mainstream pricing. and as much as 33% lower cost than More cache memory and threads per competing bladesv . Stable and reliable: Common technology platform processor than dual or competing that scales from dual-core to quad-core featuring multi-core processors are ideal for Lowers power consumption up to 15% more server reliability and advanced technology demanding applications in virtualized versus AMD Opteron* dual-core features than competitive offerings. environments. processor- based serversvi . Up to 4x the system scalability enables better performance for applications requiring reliable, large-scale computing solutionsviii . Breakthrough performance from the world's IT Benefits Proactive data protection and Outstanding IT value with twice the Advanced redundancy and error checking first quad-core processor for mainstream improved security through advanced cores enhance virtualization capacity and provide features such as memory mirroring