The Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 product family adds 50 percent more cores and cache3 over the previous generation and includes numerous other hardware enhancements, such as Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2) and Intel® Quick Path Interconnect link (QPI). These innovations deliver up to 2.2X the performance over the previousgeneration to significantly boost output across a bro...

Computing clusters built from standard components using Intel® processors are becoming the fastest growing choice for high-performance computing (HPC). Twice yearly, the 500 most powerful computing systems in the world are ranked on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites Web page. In November 2002, the ranking listed 56 entries using Intel processors; by June 2003, that number reached 119. Today, three...

We have benchmarked dual-processor quad-core AMD Opteron 2350 and 2356, dual-processor quad-core Intel Xeon E5345, single processor quad-core Intel Xeon X5472, dual-processor dual-core AMD Opteron 2214, dual-processor single-core Intel Xeon EM64T and single-processor single-core Intel Xeon EM64T systems using a CMSSW event simulation and reconstruction application. The results are presented in ...

In this paper we discuss an emerging direction for Intel® vProTM technology called Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) computing. DVC addresses the needs of IT organizations and end-users by enabling client computing diversity across alternative computing models. DVC is a client virtualization architecture combining hardwareand software-enabled features based on the foundation elements of Intel® Virtu...

Intel® Architecture Servers White Paper Intel® Architecture Servers During the last decade, Intel has added several new technologies that enable users to improve the power efficiency of Intel® architecture based platforms. Because these technologies have been introduced in different generations of microprocessors and chipsets over several years, it may not be apparent how they work together and...

Robert Vaughn North America Field Manager, Intel IT Executive Overview Intel IT’s enterprise private cloud has seen reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) annually and maintains a goal of absorbing private cloud growth while reducing absolute spending. To achieve this aggressive goal, continuous improvements in infrastructure efficiency and performance are required. In the second half of 2015, I...