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Intel® Quad and Hex-Core Xeon 5600 Westmere Series
Extreme Performance
These monsters go all the way up to 12 cores, 24 virtual cores (threads) and 96GB of DDR3 RAM. Need we say more? How about a performance benchmark that exceeds 35x Pentium-4 CPUs?
The Intel® Xeon processor 5600 Westmere series delivers up to 40% performance improvement over the previous generation Nehalem due to 32nm technology (in the same power envelope). The 5600 series also added directly assignable I/O, establishing the hardware foundation for best in-class virtualization performance for all virtualization and cloud computing demands. In this series, Intel also added Intel® 64 architecture and it provides chip-based AES instructions to accelerate performance for encrypted, secure transactions. Order a Dual CPU 5620 Quad-core or 5650 Hex-core for up to twelve computation engines and 24 threads per two-socket platform with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.
| Processor | Clock Speed | QPI Speed | DDR3 Clock | Cores/Threads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westmere EP E5620 | 2.40 GHz | 5.86 GT/s | 1066 MHz | 4 / 8 (Single CPU) 8 / 16 (Dual CPU) |
| Westmere EP X5650 | 3.33 GHz | 6.4 GT/s | 1333 MHz | 6 / 12 (Single CPU) 12 / 24 (Dual CPU) |
| Westmere EP X5680 | 2.66 GHz | 6.4 GT/s | 1333 MHz | 6 / 12 (Single CPU) 12 / 24 (Dual CPU) |
| Why Intel® Xeon Nehalem And Westmere? | |
|---|---|
| Feature | Benefit |
| Intel® Virtualization Technology | Combined with software-based virtualization solutions provides maximum system utilization by consolidating multiple environments into a single server if needed. By abstracting the software away from the underlying hardware, a world of new usage models opens up that reduce costs, increase management efficiency, strengthen security, while making your server infrastructure more resilient in the event of a disaster. |
| Intelligent Performance | Delivers up to 2.25x performance improvement within a power envelope similar to previous processors. |
| Intel® Turbo Boost Technology | Delivers performance on demand, letting processors operate above the rated frequency to speed specific workloads and reduce power consumption during low utilization periods. |
| Intel® QuickPath Technology | The old Front Side Bus (FSB) has been replaced with QuickPath Interconnect (QPI). Where FSB was rated in MHz, QPI is rated in GIGA-TRANSFERS per second (GT/s). The integrated memory controller speeds traffic between processors and I/O controllers for bandwidth intensive applications, delivering up to 3.5x the bandwidth for data-intensive applications. |
| Intel® Speedstep Technology | Enables very high performance while also meeting the power-conservation needs by switching both voltage and frequency in tandem between high and low levels in response to processor load. |
| Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology | Boosts performance for parallel, multi-threaded applications. |
| Larger memory capacity | Up to 24GB DDR3 memory supports higher performance for data-intensive applications. |
| Shared L3 cache | Boosts performance while reducing traffic to the processor cores. |
| Flexible Virtualization | Enhances virtualization performance by up to 2.1x. |
| Hardware Assist | Boosts virtualization performance by allowing the OS more direct access to the hardware. |
| Intel® VT FlexMigration | Enables seamless migration of running applications among current and future Intel® processor-based servers. |
| Intel® VT FlexPriority | Improves virtualization performance by allowing guest OSs to read and change task priorities without VMM intervention. |
| Extended Page Tables (EPT) | Provide better performance by reducing the overhead caused by page-table utilization of virtual machines. |
| Chipset | Enables directly assignable I/O to Virtual Machines, helping speed data movement and enhancing performance. |
| Network | Delivers up to 2x throughput improvement with extensive hardware assists to I/O devices. |
*Standard motherboards scale up to 32GB RAM. Inform us if you prefer the 96GB motherboard when you place your order.
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