Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v4 Family Speeds Data, Transforms Business

New
Product Families Deliver Horsepower for Advanced Real-Time Analytics and
In-Memory Computing

June 6, 2016 — Dramatic growth in the volume and
variety of data is bringing unprecedented opportunities for businesses –
healthcare to transportation, banking to manufacturing – to make new
discoveries and to deliver improved services and customer experiences. The key
opportunity is turning the massive amount of core business data plus new
sources of unstructured data into actionable and timely insights. In fact,
research is finding that companies that use data-driven insights are two times
more likely to have top quartile financial performance and five times more
likely to make decisions faster than their competition, so it is no surprise
that many companies are investing in analytics1.

The Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800 v4 families
offer robust performance, the industry’s largest memory capacity per socket 2,
advanced reliability and hardware enhanced security for real-time analytics so
that businesses can rapidly gain actionable insights from
massive and complex data sets. They are optimal for scale-up platforms,
delivering large in-memory computing for real-time analytics as well as
data-intensive workloads such as online transaction processing (OLTP), supply
chain management (SCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), among others.
The Intel Xeon processor E7 v4 family delivers up to 1.4 times higher
performance, up to 10 times better performance for dollar and half the system
power compared to IBM Power8*-based solutions3.

The new processor family offers headroom for growth
with traditional four- and eight-socket support, is designed for configurations
up to 256 sockets via third-party node controllers, and has OEM system designs
that currently feature up to 64 sockets. It also offers industry-leading memory
capacity of up to 24TB in an eight-socket system, allowing massive datasets to
be stored completely in memory, rather than on hard drives, to accelerate time
to insight and decision-making.

The new processors include more than 70 reliability,
availability and serviceability (RAS) features, including Intel® Run Sure
Technology that is unique to the Intel Xeon processor E7 family. These RAS
features offer advanced data integrity and mission-critical system readiness
that reduces the frequency and cost of server downtime. In addition, improved
error recovery mechanisms and features such as memory mirroring offer
exceptional data reliability without driving up system-wide memory
requirements.

New security features built into the processors
protect the most mission-critical, data-rich applications by encrypting data
much faster, improving detection of sophisticated threats and increasing
protection against malicious attacks. The hardware-enhanced security
capabilities in the processors provide up to 70 percent more encryption
performance per core4 meaning that organizations can better
protect a growing amount of data with minimal impact to their system’s
performance, while delivering improved malware safeguards. In addition, the
Intel® OS Guard now includes Supervisor Mode Access Protection to enable
privileged access implementations that offer IT more control over which users
have access to sensitive system data and also help prevent a malicious user
from extending those vulnerabilities and exploiting other systems across the
data center.

Enhanced hardware-assisted virtualization allows IT to
virtualize mission-critical enterprise workloads and move them into cloud-scale
environments for new levels of agility and efficiency. Improvements in
virtualization performance and resource management include lower latencies when
entering and exiting virtual machines (VMs), fewer VM interrupts via posted
interrupts, and less overhead in fault-tolerant environments with page
modification logging.

The Intel Xeon processor E7 v4 family enables great IT
infrastructure controls by including advanced telemetry features and
orchestration technologies such as the Intel® Resource Director Technology.
These features provide deeper visibility and control over shared platform
resources, resulting in efficient scheduling, load balancing and workload
migration across virtual machines. As a result, IT is able to improve asset
utilization to deliver optimal quality of service levels across multiple
applications.

Intel
technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may
require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies
depending on system configuration. No computer system can be absolutely secure.
Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

Performance
tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer
systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of
those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information
and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated
purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other
products. Intel does not control or audit the design or implementation of third
party benchmark data or Web sites referenced in this document. Intel encourages
all of its customers to visit the referenced Web sites or others where similar
performance benchmark data are reported and confirm whether the referenced
benchmark data are accurate and reflect performance of systems available for
purchase.

1 Source: Gartner,
Survey Analysis: Practical Challenges Mount as Big Data Moves to Mainstream,
September 2015

2 Source: Xeon E7 v4
platform supports up to 3TB of memory per socket: www.intel.com.
IBM POWER8* platforms support up to 2TB of memory per socket:http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ST&infotype=SA&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POY03114USEN&attachment=POY03114USEN.PDF.
Oracle SPARC M7*-based platforms support up to 0.5TB of memory per socket: https://www.oracle.com/servers/sparc/m7-16/comparisons.html.

3 “Up to 1.4 times
higher performance’ compared to IBM POWER8*-based solutions” claim based on
estimated SPECint*_rate_base2006 performance of 8-socket server using Intel®
Xeon® processor E7-8890 v4 scoring 6079 versus an 8-socket IBM Power E870
scoring 4830. “1/2 the system power” compared to IBM POWER8*-based
solutions’ claim based on estimated system power of 8-socket server using Intel®
Xeon® processor E7-8890 v4, 2,496 watts max power, versus an 8-socket IBM Power
E870, 5,068 watts max power. “Up to 10X better performance per dollar”
compared to IBM POWER8*-based solutions’ claims based on estimated
SPECint*_rate_base2006 performance of 8-socket server using Intel® Xeon®
processor E7-8890 v4 scoring 6900 priced at a list price of $197,974 to
8-socket IBM Power E870 scoring 4830 priced at public list price of $1,592,788.

·         SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark results:

o    8-chip IBM POWER8-based Power E870 (4830
baseline score) with 4TB of memory. Source: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=PM&subtype=RG&appname=STGE_PO_PO_USEN&htmlfid=POO03017USEN&attachment=POO03017USEN.PDF.

o    Intel estimate for 8-chip Intel Xeon processor
E7-8890 v4 (6900 baseline score) with 2TB memory.

·         Estimated power:

o    8-chip IBM Power E870 with 8 x 4.19 GHz
POWER8* processors, 4 TB memory, 2 HDDs. (5068 watts max
power). Source: http://www-912.ibm.com/see/EnergyEstimator.

o    Intel estimate for 8 x E7-8890 v4 processors/2
TB memory/ 2x146G 15K SAS drives. (2496 watts max power). Power estimate based
on 8-chip Xeon® E7-8890 v4-based solution (Lenovo x3950 server). Source: https://lenovopress.com/tips1251-system-x3950-x6-6241.

·         Estimated list pricing:

o    8-chip IBM Power E870 Pricing of $1,592,788: 8
x 4.19 GHz POWER8* processors, 4 TB memory, 2 HDDs. Source: IBM United
States Prices 114-160, dated October 6, 2014 (hardware list prices). Source: As
of May 23, 2016, IBM System P Power Based Products List Price File – July 2015 https://www-304.ibm.com/easyaccess3/fileserve?contentid=259221

o    8-chip Brickland-EX platform Intel
estimated price of $165,000 with 8x Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v4 processors,
2 TB memory, 2 HDDs.

4 “Up to 70
percent more encryption performance per core” claim based on RSA 4096 bits
(Sign, testing by Intel) with 4x Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v3 at 22M
cycles/op compared to 4x Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v4 at 13M cycles/op.
Lower is better.

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