Are businesses starting to adopt the Intel (News - Alert) Xeon E5-2600 v3 series CPUs introduced last year, also known as “Haswell EP”? A new survey by UNICOM Engineering is looking to find out.
You may have heard that Haswell EP is a multi-core giant. That would be true.
Haswell EP supports up to 18 cores, which means a yield of up to 36 logical cores with the use of Hyper-Threading. While this delivers a lot of power in a single CPU, it also has left some pundits wondering how to keep all those cores busy at the same time.
The dual-socket server market is the main intended audience for Haswell EP, and most server systems have a field life of between three and five years on average. This means that systems based on Haswell EP processors are destined to replace systems built on Nehalem EP, Westmere EP and Sandy Bridge EP.
The first iteration of the Xeon E5-2600, Sandy Bridge EP, offered as many as eight cores and was manufactured with a 32nm process. Ivy Bridge EP came next, and it shrank down to a 22nm process, which bumped up the potential cores to 12. Now Haswell EP is out and available in configurations of up to 18 cores.
Each generation of this architecture follows the core design and incorporates much of the technology that is being released for the consumer segment. For Haswell EP, therefore, this means that the voltage regulation circuitry moves on-package instead of residing on the motherboard.
Another big change in Haswell EP is its LGA 2011-3 interface, which is not compatible with Sandy Bridge EP, Ivy Bridge EP or the Ivy Bright EX's 2011-pin socket. The new interface facilitates DDR4 memory compatibility, delivering lower power, more density, and higher data rates than previous iterations of the processor line.
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Edited by Rory J. Thompson