New Technologies Provide a Range of
Capabilities and Are Central to Enabling a Software Defined
Infrastructure
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- New monitoring and management features
aid rapid, automated deployment of workloads, increase efficiency
and improve service quality.
- Provides leadership performance for
compute, storage and network workloads to enable efficient and
dynamic operation in cloud environments.
- Twenty-seven new performance world
records1, with increases up to 3x compared with previous
generation2.
- Up to 50 percent more cores and cache3
than the previous generation, and first-ever server platform
supporting DDR4 memory for improved application performance.
Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel® Xeon® processor
E5-2600/1600 v3 product families to address the requirements of
diverse workloads and the rapidly evolving needs of data centers.
The new processor families include numerous enhancements that
provide performance increases of up to 3x over the previous
generation2, world-class energy efficiency and enhanced security.
To facilitate the explosive demand for software defined
infrastructure (SDI), the processors expose key metrics, through
telemetry, which enable the infrastructure to deliver services with
the best performance, resilience and optimized total cost of
ownership.
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600/1600 v3
Product Family (Photo: Business Wire)
The processors will be used in servers, workstations, storage
and networking infrastructure to power a broad set of workloads
such as data analytics, high-performance computing,
telecommunications and cloud-based services, as well as back-end
processing for the Internet of Things.
“The digital services economy imposes new requirements on the
data center, requirements for automated, dynamic and scalable
service delivery,” said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and
general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel. “Our new Intel
processors deliver unmatched performance, energy efficiency and
security, as well as provide visibility into the hardware resources
required to enable software defined infrastructure. By enabling the
re-architecture of the data center, Intel is helping companies
fully exploit the benefits of cloud-based services.”
Enabling Software Defined Infrastructure
Software defined infrastructure (SDI) is the foundation for
cloud computing. The digital services economy requires agility and
scale that demands all infrastructure resources be programmable and
highly configurable. These abilities, coupled with telemetry,
analytics, and automated actions, allow the data center to become
highly optimized. Intel continues to invest in delivering this
vision of an automated data center, and with the new Xeon E5-2600
v3 product family, the company has introduced key sensors and
telemetry that further enhance SDI.
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family introduce new
features that provide greater visibility into the system than ever
before. A new cache monitoring feature provides data to enable
orchestration tools to intelligently place and rebalance workloads
resulting in faster completion times. This also provides the
ability to conduct analysis of performance anomalies due to
competition for cache in a multitenant cloud environment where
there is little visibility into what workloads consumers are
running.
The new processors also include platform telemetry sensors and
metrics for CPU, memory and I/O utilization. With the addition of
thermal sensors for airflow and outlet temperature, the visibility
and control has increased significantly from the prior generation.
The processors offer a holistic set of sensors and telemetry for
any SDI orchestration solution to more closely monitor, manage and
control system utilization to help maximize data center efficiency
for a lower total cost of ownership.
Increased Performance and Energy Efficiency
With up to 18 cores per socket and 45MB of last-level cache, the
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 product family provides up to 50 percent more
cores and cache compared to the previous generation processors. In
addition, an extension to Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2
(Intel AVX2)4 doubles the width of vector integer instructions to
256 bits per clock cycle for integer sensitive workloads and
delivers up to 1.9x higher performance gains5.
The Xeon E5-2600 v3 product family also increases virtualization
density, allowing support for up to 70 percent more VMs per server
compared to the previous generation processors6, which helps to
reduce data center operational expenses. Memory bandwidth
constrained workloads will gain up to 1.4x higher performance
compared to the previous generation7 with the support of
next-generation DDR4 memory. Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New
Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) have also been enhanced to accelerate
data encryption and decryption by up to 2x without sacrificing
application response times8.
The processors are built using Intel’s industry-leading and
energy-efficient 22nm, 3-D Tri-Gate technology, cutting power
consumption while boosting performance of transistors. The new
“per-core” power states dynamically regulate and adjust power in
each processor core for more power-efficient workload
processing.
Combining both record performance and advanced efficiency
features, the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family sets a
new world record for server energy efficiency9 based on performance
per watt.
Creating Open, Flexible Networks with Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3
Processors
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors can be paired with the Intel®
Communications Chipset 89xx series featuring Intel® Quick Assist
Technology to enable faster encryption and compression
performance10 to improve security in a wide range of workloads.
Service providers and networking equipment providers can use the
platform to consolidate multiple communications workloads onto a
single, standardized and flexible architecture to speed up services
deployment, reduce costs, and create a more consistent and secure
user experience.
In addition, the new Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 family
helps address the increasing demands on networks with capabilities
to enable better performance for virtualized servers and networks.
The flexible 10/40 gigabit Ethernet controller provides twice the
bandwidth while consuming half the power compared with the previous
generation11.
Extensive industry support
Starting today, system manufacturers from around the world are
expected to announce hundreds of Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3
family-based platforms. These manufacturers across servers, storage
and networking include Bull*, Cray*, Cisco*, Dell*, Fujitsu*,
Hitachi*, HP*, Huawei*, IBM*, Inspur*, Lenovo*, NEC*, Oracle*,
Quanta*, Radisys*, SGI*, Sugon* and Supermicro*, among many
others.
Pricing details
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family will be
offered with 26 different parts that range in price from $213 to
$2,702 in quantities of 1,000. Intel Xeon processor E5-1600
workstations will be offered with six different parts in prices
ranging from $295 to $1,723. Complete pricing details can be found
in the Intel Newsroom. For more details on these new Intel Xeon
processors, visit the online press kit.
About Intel
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The company designs and builds the essential technologies that
serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. As
a leader in corporate responsibility and sustainability, Intel also
manufactures the world’s first commercially available
“conflict-free” microprocessors. Additional information about Intel
is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com, and about
Intel’s conflict-free efforts at conflictfree.intel.com.
Intel, the Intel logo and Xeon are trademarks of Intel
Corporation in the United States and other countries.
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of
others.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been
optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors.
Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured
using specific computer systems, components, software, operations
and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the
results to vary. You should consult other information and
performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your
contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product
when combined with other products.
Results have been measured by Intel based on software, benchmark
or other data of third parties and are provided for informational
purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design
or configuration may affect actual performance. Intel does not
control or audit the design or implementation of third party data
referenced in this document. Intel encourages all of its customers
to visit the websites of the referenced third parties or other
sources to confirm whether the referenced data is accurate and
reflects performance of systems available for purchase.
1Twenty-seven performance world records based on two-socket
configurations. Source as of Sept. 8, 2014. Full details available
at:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-e5-2600-v3/xeon-e5-2600-v3-summary.html.
2Source as of Sep. 8, 2014. New configuration: Hewlett-Packard
Company HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 platform with two Intel Xeon
Processor E5-2699 v3, Oracle Java Standard Edition 8 update 11,
190,674 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 47,139 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM
critical-jOPS. Source. Baseline: Cisco Systems Cisco UCS C240 M3
platform with two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2697 v2, Oracle Java
Standard Edition 7 update 45, 63,079 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS
, 23,797 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Source.
3Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 (18C, 45M Cache) compared to
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 (12C, 30M Cache).
4Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX)* provides higher
throughput to certain processor operations. Due to varying
processor power characteristics, utilizing AVX instructions may
cause a) some parts to operate at less than the rated frequency and
b) some parts with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 to not achieve
any or maximum turbo frequencies. Performance varies depending on
hardware, software, and system configuration and you can learn more
at http://www.intel.com/go/turbo.
5Source as of August 2014 TR#3034 on Linpack*. Baseline
configuration: Intel® Server Board S2600CP with two Intel® Xeon®
Processor E5-2697 v2, Intel® HT Technology disabled, Intel® Turbo
Boost Technology enabled, 8x8GB DDR3-1866, RHEL* 6.3, Intel® MKL
11.0.5, score: 528 GFlops. New configuration: Intel® Server System
R2208WTTYS with two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3, Intel® HT
Technology disabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, 8x16GB
DDR4-2133, RHEL* 6.4, Intel® MKL 11.1.1, score: 1,012 GFlops
6Source as of Sept. 8, 2014. New configuration: Hewlett-Packard
Company ProLiant DL360 Gen9 with two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2699
v3, SPECvirt_sc2013 1614 @ 95 VMs. Source. Baseline: IBM
System x3650 M4 platform with two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2697 v2,
SPECvirt_sc2013 947.0 @ 53 VMs. Source.
7Source as of August 2014 TR#3044 on STREAM (triad): Intel®
Server Board S2600CP with two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2,
24x16GB DDR3-1866 @1066MHz DR-RDIMM, score: 58.9 GB/sec. New
Configuration: Intel® Server System R2208WTTYS with two Intel®
Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3, 24x16GB DR4-2133 @ 1600MHz DR-RDIMM,
score: 85.2 GB/sec.
8Source as of June 2014 on AES-128-GCM Encryption algorithm:
Intel internal measurements using Intel® Server Board S2600CW2S
with two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2658 v3, DDR4-2133, CentoOS
v3.8.4, Open SSL v1.0.2-beta1. Baseline Configuration: Intel
internal measurements with two E5-2658 v2, DDR3-1866, CentoOS
v3.8.4, Open SSL v1.0.2-beta1.
9Comparison based on SPECpower_ssj2008
results published (http://www.spec.org/) as of Aug. 26,
2014. Sugon I620-G20 platform with two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2699
v3, IBM J9 VM, 10,599 overall ssj_ops/watt. Source
(http://www.sugon.com/).
10Intel® Communications Chipset 8920 (20Gbps) compared to Intel
Communication Chipset 8955 (50Gbps) capable of up to 2.5x more
encryption acceleration. Intel® Communications Chipset 8920 (8Gbps)
compared to Intel Communication Chipset 8955 (24Gbps) capable of up
to 3x more compression acceleration. 8920 Configuration: C8920 PCIe
x16 QA Driver/SDK Release 1.0.0-77 Stargo/ Gladden 4C-8T-8 MB LLC -
2GHz, 2C-4T used for peak CCK throughputs. 8955 Configuration:
[8955 PCIe x16 on a Shumway development Platform with Ivy Bridge EP
CPUs and QA Driver/SDK 1.00. Tests were performed using UP/8 cores;
Measured by Intel].
11Source as of Aug 2014: Calculated Gb/Watt for 2@ Intel
Ethernet CNA X520-DA2 Dual-port Twinax Typical Power 11.6W 2: 1@
Intel Ethernet CNA X710-DA4 Quad-port Twinax Typical Power 3.4W for
a 222% increase in Gb/Watt (Typical).
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Intel CorporationBrian Garabedian,
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