Overview:
Today’s advanced analytics solutions are fundamentally changing the speed with which businesses can extract insights
from large data sets. With results delivered in seconds or minutes rather than hours or days, business intelligence can be
integrated into critical, real-time processes to drive better results, improve decision making, deliver new services and
experiences, and implement new revenue-generating business models.
Four-socket, eight-socket, and larger servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4400 v3 product families
provide exceptional performance and scalability for real-time analytics operating on multi-terabyte and even petabytescale
datasets. With their massive execution resources, large memory capacity, and advanced reliability features, these
servers also provide best-in-class support for traditional enterprise applications, such as enterprise resource planning
(ERP), data warehousing, and online transaction processing (OLTP).
As workloads continue to grow, these powerful servers can help you expand your IT capabilities to support faster, smarter,
more data-driven business models. They can also help you virtualize demanding workloads and move them into private or
hybrid clouds, so you can bring new agility, efficiency, and resilience into your mission-critical environments.
Features:
Up to 5.9X Higher Performance1,2 for Critical Workloads
With up to 20 percent more cores, threads, cache, and
system bandwidth than previous generation processors,
the Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family makes fast work of
complex, high-volume transactions and queries. These
processors also support both DDR4 and DDR3 memory
technologies, so you can balance cost versus performance
more flexibly as your workloads grow.
These and other enhancements deliver up to 1.37X1 the
performance for traditional OLTP workloads versus previousgeneration
processors and up to 1.58X1 higher performance for
business intelligence and analytics. Two new technologies
provide additional and dramatic gains for many critical
enterprise applications.
- Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions3 (Intel®
TSX) introduced in the Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family,
provides up to 5.9X higher OLTP performance1,2 for
optimized database solutions, via a flexible and easy-touse
mechanism that accelerates multi-threaded workloads
by dynamically exposing otherwise hidden parallelism.
- Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions3 2.0 (Intel® AVX 2.0)
with new Fused Multiply Add (FMA) instructions doubles
both the maximum number of floating point operations per
second (Flops) and the maximum width of vector integer
instructions (to 256 bits)—to extend the performance
benefits of Intel AVX into enterprise computing.
World-Class Reliability, Availability, and Security
Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family
include Intel® Run Sure Technology3 which provides Resilient
System and Resilient Memory technologies to support
mission-critical uptime and advanced data integrity. These
systems have been delivering uptime levels comparable to
high-end RISC-based systems for several years,4 and the
Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family adds valuable new Intel
Run Sure technologies.
- Enhanced Machine Check Architecture Recovery Gen2 helps to improve system resilience by extending automatic
error recovery to the core execution engine.
- Address Range Memory Mirroring helps to improve
memory resilience by providing granular control over
which memory regions are mirrored. You can mirror
critical data for extreme reliability, while leaving more
memory available for other workloads.
Other new reliability features include multiple rank
sparing, which enables increased memory redundancy,
and DDR4 recovery for command and address parity
errors. These technologies provide additional support
for increasing system uptime and data integrity, while
reducing service costs.
The Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family also includes
integrated security technologies that help to protect data,
software, and hardware more effectively. Capabilities such
as hardware-accelerated encryption and trusted platform
launches (based on cryptographically verified “known good
states”) support stronger security with less impact on
application performance.
Scalability for Any Workload
The Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family provides a powerful
engine for both in-memory and traditional workloads,
with up to 18 cores, 36 threads, and 45 MB of last-level
cache per socket—plus support for up to 6 TB of memory
in a four-socket system and up to 12 TB in an 8-socket
system. Even larger configurations are available from
select server vendors.
Optimizing platform scalability requires a balanced platform
to avoid performance-limiting bottlenecks. Intel offers
high-performance storage and networking solutions for
the most demanding workloads.
- The Intel® Solid-State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe*
(Intel® SSD) delivers up to 5x the throughput of SATA
SSDs, with enterprise-class reliability, endurance, and
data protection.
- The Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 (40GbE) provides
flexible, high-performance network solutions to keep
data flowing more quickly and reliably, even in dense,
virtualized environments.
- Intel® QuickAssist Technology offloads cryptographic and
data compression workloads to dedicated accelerators
to improve performance, while freeing up CPU cycles for
improved scalability.
Powerful Virtualization for Data Center Modernization
Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family
provide the performance, scalability, and reliability needed
to virtualize enterprise workloads and move them into private
or hybrid cloud environments. Platform-wide hardware
assists for virtualization enable near-native performance in
virtual machines, and advanced telemetry provides better
insight for monitoring and orchestrating resources. Two new
technologies bring additional flexibility and robustness.
- Cache Monitoring helps to eliminate cache contention
among virtual machines. “Noisy neighbors” can be
identified and moved before performance is compromised.
- Intel® Virtual Machine Control Structure (VMCS)
shadowing allows one hypervisor to run in a virtual
machine managed by another hypervisor, without
compromising performance. VMCS provides greater
security and isolation for ultra-sensitive workloads and
for running development/test and production workloads
on the same server.
Up to 5.9X higher performance1,2 for more
responsive applications
- Up to 20 percent more cores, threads, cache, and system
bandwidth compared with the previous-generation
delivers platform-wide improvements for better
overall performance.
- Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions3
(Intel® TSX) accelerate queries and database transactions
by dynamically optimizing the execution of critical, lockprotected
data sections.
- Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions3 2.0 (Intel® AVX 2.0)
improves performance for many applications, through
wider vector units and new instructions that perform
more work per clock cycle.
Scalable memory capacity for real-time analytics across
large data sets
- Up to 6 TB per 4-socket server and 12 TB per 8-socket
server, with larger scale-up configurations available from
select server vendors.
- Support for both DDR4 or DDR3 memory provides
flexibility and headroom for future growth.
- Memory performance mode for higher I/O and bandwidth
(plus lockstep mode for higher data reliability).
- An integrated I/O controller and support for direct storageto-cache
data transfers help to increase performance for
data-demanding applications.
The most advanced reliability features of any Intel Xeon
processor family
- Intel® Run Sure Technology3 includes a robust set of
advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)
technologies to help reduce the frequency and cost of
unplanned downtime.
- Enhanced Machine Check Architecture Recovery
Gen 2 extends error recovery to the execution core
for higher reliability.
- Address range memory mirroring supports extreme
data reliability for targeted needs without driving up
system-wide memory requirements.
- Multiple DIMM rank sparing and DDR4 recovery for
command and address parity errors help to improve
uptime and reduce service costs even more.
Hardware-enhanced security to reduce risk
- Intel® Data Protection Technology with Intel® Advanced
Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) and Secure
Key enable stronger data protection with less impact on
application performance.
- Intel® Platform Protection Technology with Intel®
Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), OS Guard, and
BIOS Guard enable higher security, trust, and compliance.
