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Intel 64-bit Server Technology

Intel 64-bit Server Technology. Philip King Solution Specialist Intel Corporation May 24, 2014. Agenda. Intel ® Server Processors Intel ® Xeon™ and Itanium™ Platforms Extended Memory 64 Technology Micro-architecture comparisons Performance and Scalability Dual and Multi-core plans

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Intel 64-bit Server Technology

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  1. Intel 64-bit Server Technology Philip King Solution Specialist Intel Corporation May 24, 2014

  2. Agenda • Intel® Server Processors • Intel® Xeon™ and Itanium™ Platforms • Extended Memory 64 Technology • Micro-architecture comparisons • Performance and Scalability • Dual and Multi-core plans • 64-bit Platform selection guidance

  3. Intel® Server Processor Roadmap . . . • 90nm • 24MB iL3 cache • Dual-core • Future Direction: • Larger Caches • 65nm process • Multiple cores • Multi-threading • Virtualization • >1 billion trans. Montecito (Q3’05) • .13µ • 9MB iL3 cache Itanium 2 Processor (Madison Refresh) . . . • .13µ • 6MB iL3 cache Performance , RAS, Scalability Potomac (Q2’05) Itanium 2 Processor (Madison) • .18µ • 3MB iL3 cache Nocona (8/6/04) Itanium® 2 Processor • HT; EM64T • 4MB+ iL3 cache • > 3 Ghz; 90nm; Xeon™ Processor • HT; EM64T • 1MB iL2 cache • > 3.6 Ghz; 90nm; • HT • .13µ • 2MB iL3 cache 2006-Beyond 2005 2002 2004 2003 ®

  4. Intel® Xeon™ Platform 2003 & Prior Enhancements • Hyper-Threading Technology • Intel® Netburst® micro-architecture • SSE & SSE2 instructions Future Enhancement • Virtualization • User defined power thresholds • Dual core CPUs • Fully buffered DIMMs 2004 Enhancements • New SSE3 instructions • PCI Express* • 800MHz FSB • 64-bit extension technology • Power management technology • Demand Based Switching (DBS) • DDR2 memory • Higher capacity & performance w/ lower power Intel, Netburst and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

  5. Intel® Itanium® Platform Future Enhancements 2004 & Prior Enhancements • Multi-core • Virtualization • I/O and memory • Enhanced RAS • Cost parity with Xeon processor based platforms (via common platform infrastructure) • Up to 2X higher performance than Xeon based platforms • EPIC architecture • Enhanced Machine Check Architecture • FMAC for floating-point leadership • Largest on-die resources for demanding workloads 2005 Planned Enhancements • Dual-core • Multi-threading • Power management technology • Demand Based Switching (DBS) • Automatic Control Power Consumption (ACPC) • Enhanced system bus Bandwidth • Foxton Technology (performance feature) • Pellston Technology (cache reliability) • PCI Express* • Fully-buffered DIMMS (FBD) , DDR2 And lower power than today

  6. What is Intel®Extended Memory 64Technology? Features Modes Extended Memory Addressability 64-bit Pointers, 64-bit Registers Legacy Mode 32 OS / 32 Apps = + + Additional Registers 8-SSE & 8-Gen Purpose Compatibility Mode 64 OS / 32 Apps 64-bit Mode 64 OS / 64 Apps 64-bit Integer Support (Double Length) 64-bit 64/64 With Intel® EM64T Support for flat virtual Address space Evolutionary IA-32 architectural enhancements to support extended memory past 4 GB

  7. Intel Itanium architecture built from the ground up to meet the needs of the most demanding applications Intel® Itanium® Processor Age : 2+ Next Enterprise Architecture • Largest, most demanding workloads requires new approach • Benefits from the experience of past architectures • A convergence of the best minds in the industry EPIC IBM PowerPC* Age : 9+ Superscalar Sun SPARC, MIPS R4000* Age : 10-15+ RISC Performance IBM 370, VAX 11* Age : 20+ CISC * Source: Computer Organization and Architecture, 1999 W. Stallings Time Performance through parallelism Massive on-chip resources Scalable • Maximizes instructions executed in parallel • Multiple execution units and issue ports • Large and fast on-die cache • 128 general registers, 128 floating point registers, 8 branch • Efficient management engine • Register stack engine • 4 GB page size • Modular • Able to seamlessly add execution resources, issue ports

  8. 72 Registers 2 / 4 MB page size 16 MB page size Characteristics of High-end ProcessorsHigh-end Processors Require Significant Resources, Capabilities Itanium® 2 processor 6 MB  9 MB on-die cache IBM Power* 4 Sun UltraSPARC IIIi* 264 Registers AMD Opteron* Up to 1.5 MB on-die cache 160 Registers 4 GB page size 1 MB on-die cache 1 MB on-die cache 72 Registers 4 MB page size Source: IBM.com Source: sun.com Source: AMD.com,

  9. Memory Addressing System Bus Bandwidth 20 On-die multi-thread 6 7 8 9 10 11 On-die Registers 1 2 3 4 5 Execution Units Issue Ports Core Frequency Instructions / Clk Intel Enterprise Micro-Architectures Xeon™ EM64T Itanium® 2 Processor 6M 1024 TB 1TB 40 bit Performance via Megahertz 6.4 GB/s 6.4 GB/s 1 MB On-die Cache 6 MB Hyper-Threading Technology Hyper-Threading Technology 8 Pipeline Stages 264 Application Registers + 64 Predicate Registers* 1 2 3 4 24 Registers 2 2x Integer 1 1x Integer, 1 MMx & SSE 2 Floating Point 2 FP, 1 SIMD 2 Load and 2 Store 6 Integer, 3 Branch 1.5 GHz ~3.6 GHz 3 Instructions / Cycle 6 Instructions / Cycle Performance via Parallelism * Intel’s EPIC technology includes 64 single-bit predicate registers to accelerate loop unrolling and branch intensive code execution.

  10. +50%-100% in ’07+ +30%-60% or higher in ’04 +30%-50% in ‘04 +0% in ’07+ ‘04 ’07+ ‘04 ’07+ Intel® Server Processor Platforms Performance 1 Platform Cost2 On track to deliver 1.5-2X better performance than Intel® Xeon™ processor While achieving platform cost parity via common platform infrastructure 1 Data based on Intel projections. 2 ‘04 Price based on comparable OEM systems, HW only for enterprise and technical computing applications. Source : www.ioncomputers.com, www.dell.com ION SR4004, (4) Xeon processors 2.8 GHz, 2MB cache, 24 GB system memory, 36 GB HDD, no OS - $34,616 ION I2X4, (4) Itanium 2 processors 1.5 GHz, 6 MB cache, 24 GB system memory, 36 GB HDD, no OS - $44, 950 Dell PowerEdge 2650, (2) Xeon processors 3.2 GHz, 1 MB cache, 4 GB system memory, 36 GB HDD, no OS - $6,143 Dell PowerEdge 3250, (2) Itanium 2 processors 1.4 GHz, 1.5 MB cache, 4 GB system memory, 36 GB HDD, no OS - $9,499 All products, dates and information are preliminary and subject to change without notice.

  11. Multi-Core Technology 2004 2005 2007 Single Core Dual Core Multi-Core • Intel™ manufacturing leadership (90nm, 65nm) enables leading multi-core • Itanium™ architecture has smaller core size – enabling up to 2x more cores per die than IA-32 for higher performance at same cost 4 or more cores Cache 2X more cores + Cache + Cache Core 2 or more cores Cache + Cache Core + Cache Itanium® architecture expected to enable up to 2x more cores per processor than Xeon processors by 2007 All products, dates and features are preliminary and subject to change without notice

  12. Intel Xeon Processor Intel Itanium 2 Processor • Best Price/performance • High availability • Scalable • Broadest 32bit S/W availability • Large install base, but all 32bit • 64bit addressability only • Performance leadership now and getting greater in the future • Mainframe class reliability features • Best scalability • Over 1600 Applications ported • End to end 64 bit computing Which is the right Architecture? Intel® Xeon™ Processor* Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Family 32bit Architecture 64bit Architecture 64 bit Addressability 64 bit Addressability don’t need 64bit addressability need 64bit addressability High Compute Servers Legacy Apps Port to EM64T or Port to IPF Leave applications as 32Bit *By 2005 all Xeon processors will have memory extensions

  13. Platform Feature / Benefit Comparison

  14. T H A N K Y O U

  15. B A C K U P

  16. Some tools available and will grow over time Effort needed to porting to 64 bit is the same regardless of architecture Strong 32-bit eco-systems in place, but needs to expand to EM64T OEMs are ramping volume quickly Best price point for servers Native 32 bit environment (drivers still need be ported to 64bit environment) Mature Tools and large selection Porting effort is about the same as on EM64T Eco-system in place and still growing OEMs shipping in volume Processor price delta between Xeon and IPF (top speed) is <$400 per CPU IA32-EL provides 32-bit execution environment – perf. 50% of Xeon top speed Other 64-bit platform considerations Xeon Processor with EM64T Itanium 2 Processor

  17. Server Architecture Reliability Comparisons

  18. IA Scalability Performance Comparison: Transaction Processing (TPC-C) +100% Xeon™ Processor MP 3GHz 4MB L3 tpmC in thousands Itanium® 2 Processor 1.5GHz 6MB L3 +33% Itanium® 2 processor 6M scales better than Xeon™ processor MP 3GHz • 4P: Source www.tpc.org: IBM x365 102,667.42 tpmC, $3.52/tpmC, available: 3/31/2004, with 4 Intel® Xeon processors MP at 3GHz, each with 4MB iL3 cache, running, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 EE SP3, 32GB memory. Itanium® 2 processor results of 136,111 tpmC at $4.09/tpmC on HP Integrity Server rx5670 with 4 Itanium® 2 processors 6M at 1.5GHz, each with 6MB L3 cache, 96GB memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition; TPC-C availability date 3/5/04. • 32P: Source www.tpc.org: Unisys ES7000 Orion 540 Enterprise Server 304,148.50 tpmC @ $6.18/tpmC, availability 4/28/04 with 32 Intel® Xeon™ processors MP at 3GHz, each with 4MB iL3 cache, running Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, Microsoft* SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Itanium® 2 processor 6M results on NEC Express5800/1320Xd C/S w/Express5800/120Rf-2, 609,467tpmC, $6.78/tpmC, with thirty two (32) Intel Itanium® 2 processors 6M at 1.5 GHz, running SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, with 512 GB RAM; Available: 9/1/2004. • Results as of 4/29/04. • Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, reference www.intel.com/procs/perf/limits.htm or call (U.S.) 1-800-628-8686 or 1-916-356-3104 *Other names and brands may be claimed as property of others

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