Intelligent and Expandable High-End Intel® Server Platform
Codenamed Nehalem-EX
Stephen Pawlowski Intel Senior Fellow, Intel Corporation
The next generation expandable segment server processor, codenamed Nehalem-EX, is critical to today’s enterprise computing. For server consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, data demanding applications, and other technical computing environments, Nehalem-EX greatly improves scalable performance, memory bandwidth and capacity, flexibility, and provides advanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features. At this Technology Insight, Steve Pawlowski provides an in-depth analysis of these technical advancements.
Jason Waxman General Manager, Server Platforms Marketing Group, Intel Corporation
With the evolution of the cloud, many companies are looking to implement effective cloud computing solutions. After attending this session attendees will better understand Intel’s definitions of the Public Cloud; how Intel is participating in the enhancement of cloud computing; and what companies need to look for when developing and selecting a cloud, ranging from performance to economies of scale.
This session will cover:
Business requirements
Workload management
Infrastructure needs of large-scale cloud computing
Intel’s vision of addressing these needs at the hardware, software, and data center levels
The Planet integrated new Dell PowerEdge* servers featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to provide customers with access to cutting-edge technology ahead of other IT hosting companies. The high-performance, energy-efficient Intel® processor–based servers are helping some customers double application performance while enabling The Planet to reduce power consumption. Read Maintaining an Edge in a Competitive Universe (281KB, PDF) for the details.
R Systems worked with Intel and Dell to upgrade a 288-node HPC cluster by deploying new customized Dell servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to help a customer increase aggregate application performance by 200 percent. Find out more in Breakthrough Performance for HPC (423KB, PDF).
For Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, IT plays a critical role in providing quality patient care, producing groundbreaking medical research, and facilitating effective teaching. They are extending their virtual environment with the latest Intel® architecture, saving USD 450,000 on hardware acquisition and increasing IT agility. Read Delivering Agile Healthcare (278KB, PDF) for the rest of the story.
Sun Microsystems officials are touting the performance of the Solaris* operating system when run on servers powered by Intel’s upcoming “Nehalem EX” processors. Read the article on eWeek.com.
Also find a blog and white paper on Intel’s Open Port site offering a high-level overview of the enterprise capabilities of the Solaris operating system and how it enables users to take advantage of the new features of the next generation Intel® Xeon® processor for the expandable server segment.
This Alinean white paper examines a recent server consolidation project by a large U.S. retailer who was able to reduce annual IT operating costs by modernizing their IT infrastructure and lower current cash outflows by leveraging attractive leasing options. Access Server Consolidation with IBM System x and BladeCenter* with Intel® Xeon® Processors to see what this company was able to gain by replacing a myriad of older x86-based servers.
IT@Intel Subject Matter Experts Sudip Chahal and Shesha Krishnapura explain why Intel IT buys high-end Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series based servers for both design computing and enterprise server virtualization environments. Why? Buying high-end Xeon 5500 can reduce four year server TCO by 42 percent compared to low-end Xeon 5500 processors.
If you cannot access You Tube, you can alternatively view the video here.
A new interactive, online server selector tool makes selecting a server processor simple and easy. Narrow your choices and/or compare price, performance, power and features across a variety of Intel® Xeon® processors.
Step 1: Identify the business environment, application type and primary purchase criteria
Step 2: Compare and Choose the processor family (7000, 5000, 3000)
Step 3: Compare and Choose the specific processor within that family
Access the server selector tool.
If you’ve made the decision to invest in a server refresh, use this tool in conjunction with the Xeon Server Refresh Savings Estimator to help decide what CPU to buy.
The SciNet consortium at the University of Toronto has installed a 4,000-server IBM System x* iDataPlex* supercomputer, powered by more than 7,500 Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series compute cores, that gives Canadian researchers a supercomputer that’s over 10 times more powerful than any other system in Canada and saves enough energy every year to run more than 700 homes. Read about Canada’s Fastest Supercomputer.
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Stephen Pawlowski