For Intel’s chip design process, increased design complexity and business requirements lead to exponential compute capacity growth and increased cost. To help us understand how the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series could address these challenges, we recently ran a broad range of industry-leading end-to-end electronic design automation (EDA) applications with more than 50 Intel silicon design workloads. We concluded that can replace up to 11 single-core processor-based servers with one quad-core processor-based server for some EDA applications, lower operational costs, and accelerate design cycles to achieve faster time to market. Get the rest of the details.
Faster Chip Design with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
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Hi,
“Table 1. Test System Configurations” shows that the system with the X5570 processor was equiped with 16 GB of RAM.
How were the 6 memory channels populated to get 16 GB ?
Denis
Denis,
Here’s the answer from one of the authors of the white paper:
4+2+2 GB RAM for each side of the two processors