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
HWVMM
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Workload 1 Workload 2
“Private Cloud”Automated, Scalable
and On-Demand
Server
Consolidation
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
2.45XPerformanc
e
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