Intel said Xeon E5-2600 processor provides an 80 percent improvement in performance compared to the previous Xeon 5600 series. This new processor will be used in consumerisation, big data and cloud computing.
Intel hopes that there will be 3 billion connected users and 15 billion connected devices by 2015.
Intel focusing on four key areas – performance, , I/O bandwidth, energy efficiency and security to meet massive growth of global data centre IP traffic. The amount of global data centre IP traffic is forecast to grow by 33 percent annually, surpassing 4.8 zetabytes per year – more than three times the amount in 2011.
The Xeon E5 supports up to eight cores processor, but HyperThreading effectively doubles that to 16 per socket. The new processors will also support more memory – up to 768GB in 24 slots.
Intel’s Advanced Vector Extension (AVX) technology provides double performance where intensive calculation needed like high performance computing and the Xeon E5 processors will have new version of the Turbo Boost 2.0 overclocking mechanism.
Intel said the Xeon E5 is energy efficiency product. It can efficient energy by more than 50 percent, helping customers to meet their growing data demands. Intel Node Manager and Intel Data Centre Manager is a tools that monitor and control power usages.
“The E5 will allow people on a standard data centre footprint who have a limited power budget and footprint to do twice as much in the same footprint, because there’s a 50 percent greater efficiency,” said Steve Pawlowski, Intel senior fellow and CTO of the Digital Enterprise Group, speaking to Techworld at a launch event in London.
“For a company like Amazon to be able to provide tens of thousands of cores and not have to pay any more for the energy than they did before, while doubling the performance, is huge. It depends on where you happen to be located, but energy costs roughly $1 million per megawatt, so anything that you can do to improve your performance and save is huge.”
To encrypt and decrypt data quickly Intel uses its Advanced Encryption Standard New Instruction (AES-NI) in the Xeon E5. Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology and AES-IN will be better data protection from unauthorized access.
Many manufacturers like IBM,Dell, Cisco,, Fujitsu, HP are using servers and workstation based on the Xeon E5-2600 architecture. The processor is available in 17 different versions, ranging in price from $198 to $2,050 in quantities of 1,000.
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