Intel® Xeon® Processor 7000 Sequence

The Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series, offers the industry's highest virtualization performance so you can do more with less. With key platform innovations built-in, the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series offers more headroom, reliability, and the highest expandability for large-scale server consolidation. Product brief: Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series (PDF 478KB) IDC White paper: Choosing the right hardware for server virtualization (PDF 195KB)

Best-in-class performance

With enhanced 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the new Intel Xeon processor 7400 series is best-in-class for demanding enterprise workloads with almost 50% better performance in some cases and up to 10% reduction in platform power compared to previous generation expandable servers.¹ Designed and optimized for IT, these 6-core processors provide industry-leading multi-core processing and greater computing performance without increasing footprint and power demands. With 16MB shared L3 cache, scalability beyond 4 sockets, 1066 million transfers per second (MT/s), and support for up to 256GB of RAM, the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series is the ideal choice for your data-intensive, business-critical performance requirements.

Headroom and scalability built in

Offering more low voltage options including 65W 6-core and 50W 4-core processors, Intel Xeon processor 7400 series for blade and ultra-dense platforms reduce cooling requirements, lowering IT costs. In addition, these processors are designed with Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), enabling an ecosystem of software-based virtualization from industry leading software providers.

Intel® Itanium® Processor 9000 Sequence

Itanium®-based servers deliver the scalable performance, reliability, and headroom for your most compute-intensive workloads, including direct replacement for RISC and mainframe platforms. Because Itanium processors are available in commercial off-the-shelf hardware from a rich ecosystem of system and solution providers, they can quickly meet mission-critical needs. Itanium-based servers are incredibly scalable, allowing configuration in systems of as many as 512 processors and a full petabyte (1024TB) of RAM. Together with full support for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, that capacity provides unmatched flexibility in tailoring systems to your enterprise needs. Product information Explore the following resources for more in-depth information about the Intel Itanium processor 9000 sequence: Intel® Itanium® processor 9100 series product brief › (PDF 587KB) Intel® Itanium® processor demo Performance benchmarks Compare Intel Itanium processor features		Featured papers Data center migration: Transforming business-critical infrastructure through migration to Itanium®-based servers › (PDF 433KB) Mainframe-Class RAS: Mainframe reliability on industry standard servers › (PDF 456KB) Itanium 1-2-3’s: A brief overview of mission critical computing › (PDF 338KB) Global support Get powerful industry-standard technology information and support with the Itanium® Solutions Alliance. Discover a new era in mission critical computing › Learn how Itanium®-based solutions are changing the way enterprises do business Itanium Solutions ›

Features and benefits
Dual-core processing, EPIC architecture, and Hyper-Threading Technology†	Supports massive, multi-level parallelism for today's data-intensive workloads Provides headroom for fast access to information and real-time decision making Delivers fast responses to complex computations
Support for up to 512 processors and one petabyte (1024TB) RAM	Provides scalable performance for enterprise flexibility Gives IT the ability to increase processor and memory capacity as needed, in an open-ended framework
Up to 24MB of low-latency L3 cache	Prevents idle processing cycles with a high-bandwidth data supply to the execution cores Increases the efficiency of the memory subsystem
Intel® Cache Safe Technology	Automatically recovers cache after cache errors Delivers mainframe-class availability
Enhanced Machine Check Architecture	Automatically detects, logs, and corrects errors Provides maximum system uptime
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)±	Reduces virtualization complexity and increases performance Increases operating system compatibility
Demand-Based Switching	Dynamically reduced energy consumption during typical CPU utilization (in conjunction with enabled OS)
Core Level Lock-step	Enables one processor core to mirror the operations of the other

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