Intel Xeon Processor 5500 (Flexible Virtualization)

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TRANSFORMING

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TransformIntel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series

Fernando Campora

Gerente de Marketing Corporativo

Intel Cono Sur

Intelligent Choice

Delivers higher performance, lower TCO

Estimated 8 month payback for single-core server refresh

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: Transforming Computing

Intelligent PlatformWorld’s Most Adaptable Server Platform

Most Important Server Launch Since Pentium® Pro

15 Billion Connected Devices

Design and Discovery

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: Transforming Computing

Intelligent PlatformWorld’s Most Adaptable Server Platform

Intelligent Choice

Delivers higher performance, lower TCO

Estimated 8 month payback for single-core server refresh

Most Important Server Launch Since Pentium® Pro

15 Billion Connected Devices

Design and Discovery

Intel® Pentium® Pro ProcessorHigh Performance Lower Cost SMP

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The Foundation of the World Wide Web

*Source: IDC Worldwide Server Tracker, updated Q4 2008

Annual Server Unit Shipments

Requires Dynamic, Efficient and Scalable Infrastructure

Evolving to the Embedded Internet

Researchers

Many

Ubiquitous

Pervasive

15BDevices

Mainframes Client/Server Web Cloud Architecture

NASA Ames will develop a computational

system with one PetaFLOPs peak

performance in 2009. “Such a monumental

increase in performance will help fulfill

NASA's increasing need for computing

capacity…for future missions.“

S. Pete Worden, Ames Director

Next Gen of High Performance ComputingTransforming Design and Discovery

Source: Aberdeen Group

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“Scinet has an insatiable demand for

performance… investigating the forces that govern

the universe. The clusters based on the new Intel®

Xeon® 5500 series processor keep us on the

leading edge… to enable new discoveries.”

Dr. Chris Loken, Chief Technology Officer

Top performing Manufacturers:

Get product to market 58 days faster

Have 48% lower prototyping costs

Simulation Analysis

Design Smarter Make New Discoveries

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: Transforming Computing

Intelligent PlatformWorld’s Most Adaptable Server Platform

Intelligent Choice

Delivers higher performance, lower TCO

Estimated 8 month payback for single-core server refresh

Most Important Server Launch Since Pentium® Pro

15 Billion Connected Devices

Design and Discovery

Silicon Offers the Opportunity to Scale with a Single Design

Engineering Scalability

Supersonic Speed Maximum Fuel Efficiency

Huge Capacity

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Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor

45 nm Hi-K Quad Core processor

Intelligent Performance

Adaptable Energy Efficiency

Flexible Virtualization

A New Generation of Intelligent Server Processors

Intel® Xeon® 5500 Platform

Platform Ready for Future 32nm Products

New Memory Subsystem

Intel® QuickPath Interconnect

Intel® Intelligent Power Technology

New I/O Subsystem

Intel® 5520

Chipset

PCI Express* 2.0

ICH 9/10Intel® X25-E

SSDs

Intel® 82599

10GbE Controller

NEW!

NEW!

NEW!Intel® Data

Center Manager

Intel® Node Manager

NEW!

Native Virtualized

Power Constrained

Performance Critical

Highly ParallelFrequency Sensitive

Intel® Xeon® 5500: Intelligence Built-In

Adapts To Your Application and User Environment

Responsive Performance

Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

Enhanced Virtualization

Intel® Intelligent Power Technology

Integrated Power Gates

Automated Low-Power States

Intel® Node Manager

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Performance When You Need It. Power Savings When You Don’t

Source. Intel. December 8, 2008. Based on Internal testing on pre-production Intel Xeon Processor 5500 based servers. Performance Gains

Represent A Blend (GEO Mean) Of Five Common 2-socket Workload Types Across A Range Of Typical Usages

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Placeholder to showcase leading 2S benchmark results from OEMs. Will be

updated Sun Mar 29th (US).

Examples of Software Optimizedfor the Intel® Xeon® 5500

Americas 49

Europe 37 PRC

15

APAC 12

With Over 30 Real World Applications Seeing Up to 2-3X Performance Gains*

* The highest gains are typically in applications that are memory bandwidth or latency sensitive. Results vary by application.

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Over 100 Optimized Software Products From Around The World

Telecom

Manufacturing

Rendering

Enterprise

Weather

Financial Services

Energy

Healthcare

Online Gaming

Security

Transforming the Datacenter

Balanced PlatformPerformance, Memory and I/O Capabilities

Efficient DatacenterPlatform/Rack Efficiency,

Higher ambient temp

Unified Network10Gb Ethernet for Storage and

Network

Server Pool FlexibilitySimilar instruction set between servers

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“Private Cloud”Automated, Scalable

and On-Demand

Server

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Dynamic Resource

Management

Technology Foundation for the Dynamic Datacenter

Compute

Network

Intel® Xeon® 5500 platform with

enhanced compute and I/O

virtualization

10Gb Ethernet with built-in

support for unified fabric

StorageOpen platforms and

performance

breakthroughs (SSDs)

Virtualization Performance:

Up to 160% Greater Performance

Based on VMware* VMmark1

IT Result:Workload agility

Simpler and lower cost

Performance for on-demand scalability

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: Transforming Computing

Intelligent PlatformWorld’s Most Adaptable Server Platform

Intelligent Choice

Delivers higher performance, lower TCO

Estimated 8 month payback for single-core server refresh

Most Important Server Launch Since Pentium® Pro

15 Billion Connected Devices

Design and Discovery

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

single core dual core quad+

The Server Install Base

Intel® Xeon® Shipments

Estimate 40% Single-core, 40% Dual-core In Traditional IT

Infrastructure Today

Source: Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2008

Innovate

Maintain

Enhance

Where IT Spends

Source: Intel internal data

Source: Intel estimates as of Nov 2008. Performance comparison using SPECjbb2005 bops (business operations per second). Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may

affect actual performance. For detailed calculations, configurations and assumptions refer to the legal information slide in backup.

Refresh Benefits

184 Intel® Xeon® Single Core Servers

2005Performance Refresh

Efficiency Refresh

Up to 9x Performance

184 Intel® Xeon® 5500 Based Servers

18% Annual Energy

Costs Estimated Reduction

21 Intel® Xeon® 5500 Based Servers

As low as 8 Month Payback

90% Annual Energy

Costs Estimated Reduction

– OR –

T5240 SUN* UltraSPARCT2+

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SPECJbb2005* 1.18xSAP*-SD 1.20xSPECint*-rate 2006 1.65xSPECfp*-rate2006 1.71x

Source: UltraSPARCT2+ results published on spec.org. Intel estimates as of Feb 2009. Intel results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. For detailed calculations, configurations and assumptions refer to the legal information slide in backup. All systems priced with 32GB memory, T5240 actual cost from published pricing information, Estimated price used for 2S Xeon system, based on existing 2S system published pricing information. Estimated price used for 2S P570 system. Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.

Price/Performance vs. RISC

Up to

1.71XPerformanc

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Less than

1/2System

Cost

P570 IBM* POWER6*

SPECJbb2005* 2.20xSAP*-SD 2.45xSPECint*-rate 2006 2.22xSPECfp*-rate2006 1.86x

Up to

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Less than

1/10System

Cost

Outstanding Examples of TechnologiesThat Support the Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series

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System xiDataPlex

BladeSystemC-class

Unified ComputingSolution

Bladerack 2X-series

Nexlink StableFlex Modular Server

CX1 Supercomputer

CloudRack

PowerEdgeBlade Server

Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series: Worldwide Industry Support

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Tarox

Broadest Ecosystem of Server, Storage & Embedded Partners

Most Important Server Introduction Since the Pentium® Pro

Intelligent Platform

Intelligent Choice

Summary

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