Intel Latest Server Processor

Intel Xeon processor 7500 series

Designed for maximum performance and reliability, these massively scalable 2-way to 256-way, 64-bit multi-core servers are designed to provide exceptional scalable performance and mission-critical class reliability for your most data-demanding applications and virtualization projects.

THE MAIN FEATURE WHICH SHOW HOW ITS TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN OTHERS

8-core processing
With Up to 8 cores and 16 threads per socket with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology◊, the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series offers increased performance with 45nm manufacturing technology and increased headroom for multi-threaded applications and data demanding applications
Enables improved virtualization performance, increasing system utilization

Intel microarchitecture codename Nehalem
Boosts performance on multiple applications/user environments and data demanding workloads, while enabling denser data center deployments through improved performance-per-watt
45nm hi-k process technology enables larger on-die cache for better performance, and reduced transistor gate leakage for greater energy efficiency

24 MB of L3 cache
Increases efficiency of cache-to-core data transfers, maximizing main memory to processor bandwidth
Reduces latency by storing larger data sets closer to the processor, reducing the number of trips to main memory

Intel Quickpath Interconnect
High-speed (up to 25.6 GB/s), point-to-point connections between processors, and between processors and the I/O hub
Outstanding memory performance and flexibility to support leading memory technologies
Tightly integrated interconnect reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) with design-scalable configurations for optimal balance of price, performance, and energy efficiency
Enables scaling of processors from 2- to 8-sockets, and higher with use of third-party node controllers

Quad channel integrated memory controller and Intel 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer technology.
Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect results in 8 times the memory bandwidth of prior generations
Intel 7500 Scalable Memory Buffers are used to achieve the highest memory capacity per socket for an X86 architecture
Up to 16 memory slots per processor socket
Support for up to 16GB DDR3 DIMMs
Up to 1Terabyte of memory with 16GB DIMMS in a 4-socket system (up to 2 terabytes in an 8-socket system)

Mission Critical RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)
Over 20 new RAS features (3x vs. prior generation) designed to protect data integrity, increase system availability and minimize downtime.
Machine Check Architecture Recovery (MCA Recovery) allows the system to recover from otherwise fatal memory errors. First time in X86 architecture (previously only seen in RISC, Itanium-based systems, and mainframe class systems)
Other RAS features include Intel® Scalable Memory Interconnect (Intel® SMI) lane fail-over and Intel QuickPath Interconnect self-healing which enable the platform to identify problems and fail over to another lane or modify link operation to keep running

Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT)
A suite of processor hardware enhancements that assists virtualization software to deliver more efficient virtualization solutions and greater capabilities including 64-bit guest OS support
Intel Virtualization Technology FlexPriority optimizes virtualization software efficiency by improving interrupt handling
Intel Virtualization Technology FlexMigration enables Intel Xeon processor 7400 series-based systems to be added to the existing virtualization pool with single, two, or 4+ socket Intel Xeon processor-based servers

Intel 64 architecture
Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems