1. Intel Xeon® 5500
Application Benefits
Andrea Toigo
Enterprise Technology Specialist
Intel Corporation Italy/Switzerland
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2. Intel Innovation Cycles (“Tick-Tock” Model)
Intel’s Silicon Cadence
A coordinated and accelerated
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pace of architecture innovation
Based on industry-leading silicon
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expertise & architectural design
capabilities (parallel teams)
Providing energy-efficient
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architectures at a pace to fuel
industry-wide innovation and
growth
Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock
Westmere
Penryn
Sandy Bridge
Nehalem
Intel® Core™ Compaction/
Compaction/
Derivative NEW Microarchitecture
Derivative NEW Microarchitecture
NEW Microarchitecture
32nm 32nm
45nm 45nm
65nm
Forecast
“Tick Tock”
(Shrink) (Innovate)
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3. Insatiable Demand for
Performance, Density & Efficiency
Your Demand For Performance Intel Power Reduction Over Time
1.E+00
1 ZFlops
1.E-01
1.E-02
1 EFlops
100 PFlops
1.E-03
1 PFlops
1.E-04
1.E-05
1 TFlops
1.E-06
1 GFlops 1.E-07
100 MFlops
2000 2005 2010 2010
1970 1980 1990
1993 1999 2005 2011 2017 2023 2029
Source: Top500.org
~ 1 Million Factor Reduction In
Energy per Transistor Over 30+ Years
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4. The Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
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5. Delivering Intelligent Performance
Next Generation Intel® Microarchitecture
Bandwidth Intensive
Intel® QuickPath Technology
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Integrated Memory Controller
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Threaded Applications
Intel® Data Center
Intel® 5520 Chipset
Manager
45nm quad-core Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Intel® Node Manager
Intel® Hyper-threading Technology
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Technology
PCI Express* 2.0
Performance on Demand
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
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Intel® X25-E Intel® 82599 10GbE
ICH 9/10
SSDs Controller Intel® Intelligent Power Technology
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Performance That Adapts to Your Software Environment
All future products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice.
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6. QuickPath Interconnect
• Nehalem introduces new Nehalem Nehalem
QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) EP EP
• High bandwidth, low
latency point to point
interconnect
• Up to 6.4 GT/sec initially
– 6.4 GT/sec -> 12.8 GB/sec
– Bi-directional link -> 25.6
GB/sec per link IOH
CPU CPU
memory memory
– Future implementations at
even higher speeds
• Highly scalable for systems CPU CPU
with varying # of sockets
memory memory
IOH
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7. Integrated Memory Controller (IMC)
Memory controller optimized per market segment
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Initial Nehalem products
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Native DDR3 IMC
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Up to 3 channels per socket
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Speeds up to DDR3-1333
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Nehalem Nehalem
DDR3
Massive memory bandwidth
• EP DDR3
EP
Designed for low latency
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Support RDIMM and UDIMM
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Tylersburg
RAS Features
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EP
Future products
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Scalability
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Vary # of memory channels
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Increase memory speeds
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Buffered and Non-Buffered solutions
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Market specific needs
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Higher memory capacity
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Integrated graphics
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Significant performance through new IMC
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8. Performance Enhancements
Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series Processor (Nehalem-EP)
Intel® Hyper-threading Technology
Intel® Turbo Boost
Technology
Increases performance by increasing processor frequency Increases performance for threaded applications delivering
and enabling faster speeds when conditions allow greater throughput and responsiveness
Normal 4C Turbo <4C Turbo
Frequency
Core0
Core0
Core1
Core1
Core2
Core3
Core1
Core2
Core3
Core0
All cores All cores Fewer cores
operate at operate may operate at
rated at higher even higher
frequency frequency frequencies
Higher Performance Higher Performance
on Demand For Threaded Workloads
Turbo Boost animation
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9. Performance
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10. Performance Summary
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series (Nehalem-EP)
Mainstream
Technical
General Purpose
High Performance Computing
Memory
Enterprise Servers
Compute Servers Bandwidth
3.5X Bandwidth Weather
2.25X Performance
Up to Comp
Up to
Energy Virtualization
Fluid
Database
Finite
Floating Point Dynamics
Element
Analysis
SAP
Integer
Java
Intel Xeon X5570 (2.93 GHz) vs. Intel Xeon X5482 (3.20GHz) Intel Xeon X5570 (2.93 GHz) vs. Intel Xeon X5460 (3.16GHz)
Compelling Performance Gains Across the Board
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11. Intel Xeon Processor ® ®
2S Performance Intel® Xeon®
5500
Performance gains represent a blend (GEO mean) of five
common 2-socket workload types across a range of typical
Relative Performance
usages (see details)
Intel® Xeon®
5400
Intel® Xeon®
5300
Intel® Xeon®
5100
Intel Multi-Core
Intel Single-Core
Compelling performance gains
Enables unprecedented opportunities for business
Source. Intel. December 8, 2008. Based on Internal testing on pre-production Intel Xeon Processor 5500 based servers.
This information is preliminary and subject to change before launch.
For notes and disclaimers, see performance and legal information slides at end of this presentation.
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12. Energy Efficiency
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13. Energy Efficiency Enhancements
Intel® Intelligent Power Technologies
Automated Low Power States
Integrated Power Gates1
Enables idle cores to go to near More and lower CPU power states
zero power independently
Reduced latency during transitions
Power management now on memory, I/O
Voltage
(cores)
ENHANCED!
Core0 Core1 Core2 Core3
NEW!
NEW!
Voltage
(rest of processor)
Adjusts System Power Consumption
Automatic Operation or Manual Core Based on Real-time Load
Disable2
1 Integrated power gates (C6) requires OS support.
2 Requires BIOS setting change and system reboot.
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14. Energy Efficiency Summary
Up to 2.25x performance, similar power envelope†
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Lower system idle power reduces IT costs
Energy Efficiency •
Dynamically turns cores on/off to meet
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performance needs
Idle and Peak Power Reductions† Matching Power Consumed to Performance
Delivered
12%
System Power
50%
Server technology designed to
better optimize cost and
performance real time
Idle 50% 100%
System Utilization
† Source: Intel internal measurements using SPECjbb2005* as of Aug 2007. System configurations: 2S, 80W processors, 8 DIMMs, 1 HDD, 1 PSU. Except Irwindale=110W processors; Power measurements using SPECjbb2005.
Tylersburg-EP from Intel internal measurements as of Sept 2008 with 2.93GHz 95W processors. This information is preliminary and subject to change before launch. For more information, see legal information slide at end of this presentation.
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15. Virtualization
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16. Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series:
First Platform With End-to-end HW Virtualization
Intel® VT-x Intel® VT For Intel® VT For
Directed I/O Connectivity
Processor Chipset Network
Intel® VT-d Intel® VT-c Intel® VT Flex Migration
Extended Page Tables
Intel Platform Virtualization Technologies
Intel® VT Flex Priority Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq)
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17. Enhancing Virtualization Performance
Lower Overhead††
Better Performance†
VMmark – VMware ESX “Roundtrip” Virtualization Latency
~40% Quicker over Xeon®
5400
Up to 2.6x
Higher
Intel QPI
Performance
18 slots
DDR3
memory EPT
VPID
PCIe2
More VMs Virtualization Software Efficiency
(Per Server, Per Core, Per Ft2, Per Watt) (Nehalem Microarchitecture, EPT, VPID)
† Source: Published/submitted/approved results March 30, 2009. See backup for additional details
†† Source: Intel internal measurements. Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (Nehalem) vs. Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series (Penryn) and Intel® Core™ microarchitecture (Merom)
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18. Flexible Virtualization
Through Leadership Processor, Chipset, and I/0 Enhancements
Live Migration
Consolidation
Enhanced I/O, Compatible Architecture
More Resources, Hardware Assist
CapEx and OpEx Reduction Fluid Movement of VMs Over Network
Improved Utilization
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19. Server Workloads 2008 MCS
Server Lifecycle
Question 5.6: Approximately how many years do you estimate that your XXOS servers will be kept in operation?
Figure 33:
Server Deployment Lifecycle
Median
Most typical:
The data was 3 years & 5 years
surprisingly Average:
similar by ~4 years
company size
and vertical
industry
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20. Energy Efficiency Refresh
(Same Performance Footprint)
2005 2009
184 single core servers 21 Intel® Xeon®
5500 based servers
Up to Up to Annual Energy Costs
8 month 9X 90%
Return on Investment Server Reduction Estimated Reduction
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.
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21. Performance Refresh
(1:1 Server Replacement)
2005 2009
Single Core Xeon® 5500 Series
382W Per Server 315W Per Server
51K business operation per second 447K business operations per second
Same Up to Annual Energy Costs
8.8X 18%
Data Center
Footprint and Design Performance Estimated Reduction
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.
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22. Summary
Up to 3.5x the bandwidth for technical computing†
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Up to 2.25x performance for enterprise computing†
Performance •
2x software threads and performance boost
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on demand
Up to 2.25x performance, similar power envelope†
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Lower system idle power reduces IT costs
Energy Efficiency •
Dynamically turns cores on/off to meet
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performance needs
Expand existing pools with Intel VT FlexMigration
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Unique capabilities for live VM migration over network
Virtualization •
Highest 2S virtualization scores mean more VMs
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per server†
Refresh With Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series:
Boost Performance, Lower IT Costs, 8-month ROI
† Source: Intel internal measurements, January 2009. For notes and disclaimers, see performance and legal information slides at end of this presentation.
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