Intel released the challenges high-end Xeon processor to break the 8-way RISC minicomputer market structure
Intel OEM manufacturers carry a total of 7500 release He Zhiqiang
April 1, Intel released in Beijing yesterday, the Acer Aspire 1410 Battery generation of high-end server processor, Xeon 7500 (code-named Nehalem-EX), with “revolutionary” performance, the Xeon 7500 to IBM RISC minicomputer represented launched challenge.
As the 2008 release of Xeon 7400 (code-named Dunnington) successor to the Xeon 7500 is still using 45-nanometer manufacturing process, but the structure of the latest upgrade to Intel’s Nehalem Direct Connect Architecture, and most have eight cores and 16 threads parallel processing capabilities.
Intel released data show that more than four Xeon 7500 server can bring “revolutionary” performance, compared with the Xeon 7400, the average performance improvements of up to three times to achieve the two generations of Intel multi-processor server products between the “unprecedented” performance leap.
Used in more than four Xeon 7500 server, location server consolidation, virtualization, data processing needs of large enterprise applications, and high-performance technical computing environment, while attracting users to use RISC minicomputer moved to Xeon platforms.
Eight-way Xeon server market to break the pattern of 7500
In the past, as eight-way server design and manufacturing problems, prices are several times higher than the normal four-way servers, technology is only held by the hands of a few vendors, limiting the eight-way systems.
Xeon 7500 processors benefit from the four high-bandwidth fast-track Internet (QPI) links, making server vendors can easily build a set of eight-way through the Apple A1185 Battery system, though some companies can also expand its node controller technology to 32.
In 2007, more than 8 IA-based servers also only IBM, NEC and Unisys to provide, to the year, the camp will be extended to 10 or more.
Therefore, the Xeon 7500 with the release of the next eight-way and four-way pattern of the price ratio is expected to be broken.
Intel Itanium where to go about each stroke
Xeon 7500 release, will inevitably bring on the impact of Intel’s Itanium processor. In the performance, reliability and scalability, the Xeon 7500 and Itanium are also available in the field of business-critical computing capacity.
Intel introduced the Xeon 7500 and Itanium key difference is that customers on the operating system and application software choices available, and even includes the choice of OEM manufacturers.
Users can choose from the three aspects of Itanium or Xeon 7500, for example, or use the HP-UNIX operating system some big machine user, or to vote for Itanium, and for Windows and LINUX applications are recommended Xeon 7500. Furthermore, although the Xeon 7500 introduced the first time only in the MCA on the original function of Itanium, but there are a number of RAS (Reliability Reliability, Availability and Serviceability availability maintainability) Xeon feature is not available, the demand for these The user would opt for Itanium.
Intel hopes that by Xeon 7500 and Itanium to meet the different needs of customers, but even more pleased to see that Intel is able to attract customers to migrate to RISC minicomputer Xeon platforms.
Challenge RISC minicomputer
And dual platform, multi-way platform, requires not only higher performance, but also have greater stability. Has been, X86 server competition with RISC minicomputer, are often a disadvantage in the RAS, which is a number of key areas of minicomputer users X86/Linux open platform has been reluctant to move one of the important reasons.
Xeon 7500 appearance, the X86 system RAS features up to a Compaq Presario V3000 Battery new level in a certain sense, Xeon 7500 system already has X86 in the highest level of RAS features, and compared with minicomputers, gap has not, based on X86 system server products will take this opportunity to challenge the RISC minicomputer.
Data provided by IDC, Unix server revenue in the fourth quarter decreased by 18.1% to 3.9 billion U.S. dollars, while the x86 server sales grew by 12.6% to 73 million.
The month of IBM minicomputer in the latest processor POWER7 conference, IBM will POWER7 rare compared with the Xeon, this means that, POWER7 camp in which the RISC minicomputers have felt represented with Intel Xeon The X86 server is the pressure.
According to Gartner’s statistics, last year due to the economic crisis, the world’s approximately 100 million plan to upgrade the server being slow. In 2010, with the economic situation improved, the server update has brought considerable market opportunities.
Oracle Solaris project manager Dan @ Roberts said the company plans “to make our underlying investments generate income, taking into account the continued release Open Solaris as open source software.”
Oracle plans to Solaris 10 to set 90-day trial period, after which will require users to purchase a license. Performance is expected that this initiative will allow Solaris’s popularity declined sharply, for Oracle to bring more profits.
In addition to market research firm IDC recently said that Oracle’s focus on Java software strategy relating to the company’s success. There is no doubt that Java in the future success of the Oracle as a database vendor’s success or failure has an important significance of the decision. IDC said: “In fact, IDC believes that with the acquisition of the former compared to Oracle in the middleware (middleware) and application software strategy more dependent on Java’s viability.”
IDC noted that Oracle and Sun’s open-source software sector relations appears to be a discord. However, Oracle may continue to maintain Sun’s open source software continue to operate. It seems that plans to transform into IBM type of database vendors. Have Open Office means that as part of the agreement, Oracle can give merchants a cheap package.
But see Oracle can not destroy its open source development community where once again successfully achieved Solaris patent remains in question.