Popular and powerful, the Intel Xeon E7 series is the processor of choice for many, maintaining its strength as market leader with high performance, innovative and well thought out design features. These do more than keep data stored reliably and securely: relevant data can be analysed almost immediately and can be integrated back into real-time processes making it a responsive, intelligent processor that can help push businesses forward. Over time the Intel Xeon E7 has evolved in speed and in capability up to the present family in the v4 series.
Key Features of the Intel Xeon Series
Unsurprisingly the Intel Xeon E7 has much to offer, taking the business of dealing with data to a faster, stronger, smoother place. It goes without saying that security and reliability are key features, but there are many nifty innovations that help the Intel Xeon E7 to stay on top of its game. Top of the list is VM cache allocation which makes the Intel Xeon E7 able to support a hypervisor that can partition the cache as needed or can mark a VM as high priority. The Intel Xeon has new memory bandwidth monitoring tools and new frequency/power management aids to support possible reduction of frequency adjustment latency. In addition there is transactional extension support for the Intel Xeon, and for seed generation there is new non-deterministic random bit generator instruction. Haswell to Broadwell generational updates and improvements help, whilst changes to AVX Turbo modes mean they affect single cores rather than the whole processor and entry/exit latency for virtualization environments went down to ~400 cycles from ~500 cycles on the previous Intel Xeon E7 generation. All in all an impressive package.
Bigger, Better, Faster
The Intel Xeon E7 goes over and above this though. According to Intel, this Intel Xeon has up to 33% more cores than the previous generation. When allied with Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (to accelerate multi-threaded workloads) and Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0 (which doubles both the floating point operations per clock cycle and the maximum width of vector integer instruction) these increase performance by up to 1.28x on what the previous generation of the Intel Xeon E7 could achieve, giving it the power to push businesses forward to meet the needs of users. Data analytics happens almost immediately and seamlessly, allowing the Intel Xeon E7 to inform business practice and futures planning. Ultimately the Intel Xeon E7 provides direction through the fast moving world of business, its analytics constantly suggesting the best next step.
The Intel Xeon E7 series is a powerful, secure and reliable processor that meets the needs of an evolving to market; as data and the business of collecting, analysing & storing data grows it proves itself time and time again capable of growing to more than meet these demands. The Intel Xeon E7 is a transformative tool, changing the way in which businesses compete.
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Intel Xeon Processor E7 Family