Somebody got a dual E5-2600 system
Subject: Processors | March 6, 2012 - 03:54 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: xeon E5-2600, Sandy Bridge-EP, Romley, Grizzly Pass, Bighorn Peak
Somehow SemiAccurate got their hands on an Intel R2000 Romley system, featuring a pair of E5-2600 running on a S2600GZ 2S board, in a 2U rackmount case. The performance impressed them as they had to create artificial loads to even try to stress the machine. That wasn't all that is impressive about this new platform; as it is designed as a server platform energy savings during low usage times is a key factor for administrators. Romley goes far beyond reducing frequency and power consumption when idle and actually has 16 power savings profiles which offers control far beyond what has been possible previously. As well there are large benefits to moving the PCIe controller onto the die, which you can read all about at SemiAccurate.
"To give you an idea on how good it is, SemiAccurate spent the last few weeks testing the Intel R2000 (Bighorn Peak) 2U platform based on the S2600GZ (Grizzly Pass) 2S Romley board, and it quickly became obvious we could not stress it with any real workload, only artificial workloads would make this beast sweat. I could not find a way to stress both the memory subsystem and the CPUs at once. To make matters worse, none of this touched the most important modern bottleneck, the network and I/O. Tests didn’t stress the platform evenly, what used to be system tests became subsystem tests, and were obviously the compute equivalent of makework."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- Intel Xeon E5-2670 vs Core i7-3960X @ The Inquirer
- The Xeon E5-2600: dual Sandybridge for Servers @ AnandTech
- Intel Core i7-3820 Extreme Edition CPU @ Benchmark Reviews
- Intel Sandy Bridge-E i7-3820 CPU Review @ Madshrimps
- Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Intel Core i7-3820 Quad-Core @ SSD Review
- Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E Processor Review @Hi Tech Legion
- CPU Performance Comparison Guide @ TechARP
Intel moves on the server room with 40 processors due for release
Subject: General Tech | January 3, 2012 - 01:58 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Intel, server, cpu, Romley, Ivy Bridge-H2, xeon e3, xeon e5
The server room will be getting an update over the next year thanks to Intel releasing numerous CPU models based on different architectures. First up comes Romley with a total of seven 8-core Xeons, a half dozen 6-core Xeons including both the E5-1660 and 1650 as well as the E5-2640 and relatives, five 4-core Xeons and a single dual core CPU. That will take us until close to summer. By then Intel will be working on eleven different Ivy Bridge-H2 series CPUs including the Xeon E3-1290v2 as well as seven more higher end processors including Xeon E5-2470, which will take us towards the end of 2012.
In addition to the regular lineup, DigiTimes also lists four low power Xeons which will arrive in 2012 including the 8-core Xeon E5-2650L.
"Intel is set to launch 40 new processors including those for its upcoming Romley platform, in the first half of 2012 with the company to release 20 models each quarter, according to sources from server players."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- UMC develops 0.11 micron aluminum process @ SemiAccurate
- Neural networks control a toy car @ Hack a Day
- Asustek to reduce motherboard production volume for 1Q12 @ DigiTimes
- Netgear Powerline AV 500 Adapter Kit Review @ TechReviewSource
- SteelSeries DESMO Gaming Eyewear Review @ Techgage
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