To address the exponential growth of data traffic in the cloud, Intel has announced the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, delivering high performance, best data center performance per watt, I/O innovation, and trusted hardware security features giving IT the ability to scale. Intel has also released the new X540 10Gb Ethernet Controller, aimed at low-cost high-speed servers.
To address the exponential growth of data traffic in the cloud, Intel has announced the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, delivering high performance, best data center performance per watt, I/O innovation, and trusted hardware security features giving IT the ability to scale. Intel has also released the new X540 10Gb Ethernet Controller, aimed at low-cost high-speed servers.
Alongside the launch of the new Intel Xeon processors, Intel also announced the new X540 10GbE controller. This controller will be positioned in both LAN on Motherboard (LOM) as well as converged network adapter (CNA) roles. Bringing 10GbE onto motherboards represents a big step in the right direction for increasing performance levels of lower-cost servers.
Intel X540 Ethernet Controller Specifications:
- PCI Express Interface v 2.1 with 5.0 GT/s and 2.5 GT/s Support for x1, x2, x4, x8 links widths (Lanes)
- Network Interfaces: Two independent Ethernet interfaces for 10GBASE-T, 1000BASE-T, and 100BASE-TX applications
By 2015, it is predicted that there will be 15 billion connected devices and over 3 billion connected users. Additionally, the amount of global data center IP traffic is forecasted to grow by 33 percent annually, surpassing 4.8 zetabytes per year. This is 3 times more than the amount in 2011. As such, each connected user will generate more than 4GB of data traffic every day, which will increase the amount of data that needs to be stored by almost 50 percent per year. In order to scale to meet this growth, cloud servers are expected to triple by 2015 worldwide.
Performance, energy efficiency, I/O bandwidth and security are the key requirements for enabling IT to scale. With the combination of performance, built-in capabilities, and cost-effectiveness, the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product families are built to address these requirements and are ready to become the heart of the next-generation data center powering servers and storage and communication systems.
With Leadership Performance, Best Data Center Performance per Watt Supporting up to eight cores per processor, and up to 768GB of system memory, the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family can increase performance by up to 80 percent compared to the previous-generation Intel Xeon processor 5600 series. Additionally, the family supports Intel Advanced Vector Extension (Intel AVX), which increases the performance on compute-intensive applications (including financial analysis, media content creation and high performance computing) by up to 2 times.
Additional built-in technologies, including Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, and Intel Virtualization Technology, provide IT with flexible capabilities to improve the performance of their infrastructure dynamically. These performance improvements have allowed the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family to capture 1510 new dual socket x86 world records.
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family focuses on reducing the total cost of ownership by improving energy efficient performance by more than 50 percent as measured by SPECpower_ssj*2008 compared to the previous generation. To provide accurate, real-time power, and thermal data to system management consoles, these processors offer support for tools to monitor and control power usage such as Intel Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager.
With this massive growth in data traffic, it is vital that systems enable data to flow faster to support data-hungry applications and increase the bandwidth within the data center. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family uses Intel Integrated I/O (Intel IIO) and Intel Data Direct I/O (Intel DDIO) to meet these needs. Intel DDIO allows Intel Ethernet controllers and adapters to route I/O traffic directly to processor cache. This reduces trips to system memory and reduces power consumption and I/O latency. The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family also integrates the I/O controller supporting PCI Express 3.0 directly into the microprocessor, which is the first server processor to do so. As a result, this reduces latency up to 30 percent compared its predecessors and triples the movement of data into and out of the processor.
Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instruction (Intel AES-NI14) aids systems in quickly encrypting and decrypting data running over a range of applications and transactions. Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT15) creates a trusted foundation to help reduce the infrastructure’s exposure to malicious attacks. These features, in addition to its partnership with leading software applications, will help IT protect their data centers against attacks and scale to meet the demands of their customers.
The Xeon processor E5-2600 product family will be offered with 17 different parts, ranging in price from $198 to $2,050 in quantities of 1,000.
Three single-socket Intel Xeon processor E5-1600 parts will be offered for workstations, its price ranging from $284 to $1,080.
