La Nuova Architettura Processori Intel® Xeon® 5500

Sun Confidential: Internal Only 1

Intel Xeon® 5500

Application BenefitsAndrea Toigo

Enterprise Technology Specialist

Intel Corporation Italy/Switzerland


Intel Innovation Cycles (“Tick-Tock” Model)

Forecast

TockTick Tock TickTock

Intel® Core™

NEW Microarchitecture

65nm

Penryn

Compaction/Derivative

45nm

Westmere

Compaction/Derivative

32nm

Sandy Bridge


32nm

Nehalem


45nm

Intel’s Silicon Cadence

• A coordinated and accelerated pace of architecture innovation

• Based on industry-leading silicon expertise & architectural design capabilities (parallel teams)

• Providing energy-efficient architectures at a pace to fuel industry-wide innovation and growth

“Tick Tock”(Shrink) (Innovate)


Insatiable Demand for Performance, Density & Efficiency

1 PFlops

1 TFlops

1 GFlops

100 MFlops

100 PFlops

1 EFlops

1993 20171999 2005 2011 2023

1 ZFlops

2029

Your Demand For Performance

2010

~ 1 Million Factor Reduction In Energy per Transistor Over 30+ Years

Intel Power Reduction Over Time

1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010

1.E-07

1.E-06

1.E-05

1.E-04

1.E-03

1.E-02

1.E-01

1.E+00

Source: Top500.org

4* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2009, Intel Corporation.

The Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series


Bandwidth Intensive• Intel® QuickPath Technology

• Integrated Memory Controller

Delivering Intelligent Performance Next Generation Intel® Microarchitecture

Performance on Demand• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

• Intel® Intelligent Power Technology

Threaded Applications• 45nm quad-core Intel® Xeon® Processors

• Intel® Hyper-threading Technology

Performance That Adapts to Your Software Environment All future products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice.

Intel® 5520 Chipset

PCI Express* 2.0

ICH 9/10Intel® X25-ESSDs

Intel® 82599 10GbE Controller

Intel® Data Center Manager

Intel® Node Manager Technology


QuickPath Interconnect

• Nehalem introduces new QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)

• 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

– Future implementations at even higher speeds

• Highly scalable for systems with varying # of sockets

NehalemEP

NehalemEP

IOH

memoryCPU CPU

CPU CPU

IOH

memory

memory

memory


Integrated Memory Controller (IMC)• Memory controller optimized per market segment

• Initial Nehalem products

• Native DDR3 IMC

• Up to 3 channels per socket

• Speeds up to DDR3-1333

• Massive memory bandwidth

• Designed for low latency

• Support RDIMM and UDIMM

• RAS Features

• Future products

• Scalability

• Vary # of memory channels

• Increase memory speeds

• Buffered and Non-Buffered solutions

• Market specific needs

• Higher memory capacity

• Integrated graphics

NehalemEP

NehalemEP

Tylersburg EP

DDR3 DDR3

Significant performance through new IMC


Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Co

re0

Co

re1

Co

re2

Co

re3

Co

re0

Co

re1

Co

re2

Co

re3

Co

re0

Co

re1

Performance EnhancementsIntel® Xeon® 5500 Series Processor (Nehalem-EP)

Intel® Hyper-threading Technology

Increases performance by increasing processor frequency and enabling faster speeds when conditions allow

Higher Performance on Demand

Increases performance for threaded applications delivering greater throughput and responsiveness

Higher Performance For Threaded Workloads

Fre

quen

cy

All cores operate at

rated frequency

All cores operate at higher frequency

Fewer cores may operate at

even higher frequencies

4C TurboNormal <4C Turbo

Turbo Boost animation


Performance


Performance SummaryIntel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series (Nehalem-EP)

Technical Compute Servers

Mainstream Enterprise Servers

Up to 3.5X BandwidthUp to 2.25X Performance

General PurposeHigh Performance Computing

Java

SAP

Integer

VirtualizationDatabaseFinite

ElementAnalysis

CompFluid

Dynamics

Energy

Floating Point

Memory Bandwidth

Intel Xeon X5570 (2.93 GHz) vs. Intel Xeon X5460 (3.16GHz)Intel Xeon X5570 (2.93 GHz) vs. Intel Xeon X5482 (3.20GHz)

Weather

Compelling Performance Gains Across the Board


Intel Single-Core Intel Multi-Core

Intel® Xeon® Processor2S Performance

Re

lati

ve

Pe

rfo

rma

nce

Intel® Xeon® 5100

Intel® Xeon® 5300

Intel® Xeon® 5400

Intel® Xeon® 5500

Performance gains represent a blend (GEO mean) of five common 2-socket workload types across a range of typical

usages (see details)

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.

Compelling performance gains

Enables unprecedented opportunities for business

For notes and disclaimers, see performance and legal information slides at end of this presentation.


Energy Efficiency


Automated Low Power StatesIntegrated Power Gates1

Energy Efficiency Enhancements Intel® Intelligent Power Technologies

Enables idle cores to go to near zero power independently

More and lower CPU power states

Reduced latency during transitions

Power management now on memory, I/O

Automatic Operation or Manual Core Disable2

Adjusts System Power Consumption Based on Real-time Load

1 Integrated power gates (C6) requires OS support.

2 Requires BIOS setting change and system reboot.

Core0 Core1 Core2 Core3

Voltage(cores)

Voltage(rest of processor)

NEW!

NEW!

ENHANCED!

Core0


Energy Efficiency Summary

† 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.

Energy Efficiency

• Up to 2.25x performance, similar power envelope†

• Lower system idle power reduces IT costs

• Dynamically turns cores on/off to meet performance needs

Matching Power Consumed to Performance Delivered

System Utilization

Idle 100%

Sys

tem

Pow

er

50%

Server technology designed to better optimize cost and performance real time

Idle and Peak Power Reductions†

12%

50%


Virtualization


Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series:First Platform With End-to-end HW Virtualization

Intel Platform Virtualization Technologies

Intel® VT Flex Priority Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq)

Intel® VT Flex MigrationExtended Page Tables Intel® VT-d Intel® VT-c

Intel® VT For Connectivity

Intel® VT For Directed I/O

Intel® VT-x

Processor Chipset Network


Enhancing Virtualization Performance

† 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)

Better Performance† Lower Overhead††

More VMs

(Per Server, Per Core, Per Ft2, Per Watt)

Virtualization Software Efficiency

(Nehalem Microarchitecture, EPT, VPID)

VMmark – VMware ESX “Roundtrip” Virtualization Latency

Up to 2.6x

HigherPerformance

~40% Quicker over Xeon® 5400

Intel QPI

18 slots

DDR3 memory

PCIe2

EPT

VPID


Flexible VirtualizationThrough Leadership Processor, Chipset, and I/0 Enhancements

Live MigrationEnhanced I/O, Compatible Architecture

ConsolidationMore Resources, Hardware Assist

CapEx and OpEx ReductionImproved Utilization

Fluid Movement of VMs Over Network


Server Workloads 2008 MCSServer Lifecycle

Question 5.6: Approximately how many years do you estimate that your XXOS servers will be kept in operation?

The data was surprisingly similar by

company size and vertical

industry

Figure 33:Server Deployment Lifecycle

Median

Most typical: 3 years & 5 years

Average: ~4 years

19 © 2008 IDC


184 single core servers2005

Annual Energy Costs

90%Estimated Reduction

Up to

8 monthReturn on Investment

Energy Efficiency Refresh(Same Performance Footprint)

2009 21 Intel® Xeon®

5500 based servers

Up to

9XServer 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.


Performance Refresh(1:1 Server Replacement)

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.

2005

Annual Energy Costs

18%Estimated Reduction

SameData Center

Footprint and Design

2009

Up to

8.8XPerformance

Single Core

382W Per Server

51K business operation per second

Xeon® 5500 Series

315W Per Server

447K business operations per second


Summary

† Source: Intel internal measurements, January 2009. For notes and disclaimers, see performance and legal information slides at end of this presentation.

Refresh With Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series: Boost Performance, Lower IT Costs, 8-month ROI

Performance

Virtualization

• Expand existing pools with Intel VT FlexMigration

• Unique capabilities for live VM migration over network

• Highest 2S virtualization scores mean more VMs per server†

Energy Efficiency

• Up to 2.25x performance, similar power envelope†

• Lower system idle power reduces IT costs

• Dynamically turns cores on/off to meet performance needs

• Up to 3.5x the bandwidth for technical computing†

• Up to 2.25x performance for enterprise computing†

• 2x software threads and performance boost on demand

La Nuova Architettura Processori Intel® Xeon® 5500

Technology

Transcript of La Nuova Architettura Processori Intel® Xeon® 5500