New Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor Doubles Performance, Reduces Power Consumption; Aggressive Growth in Itanium Hardware and Software Solutions Deliver Mission Critical Computing Freedom.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking today unveiled five new products in the Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 Processor 9000 series. Previously codenamed "Montecito," the new processors are designed for the most sophisticated high-end computing platforms in the world. They double the performance and lower energy requirements, improving performance per watt by 2.5 times compared to existing, single-core versions. All server-maker members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance This article contains information about scheduled or expected . It may contain preliminary or speculative information, and may not reflect the final specification of the product. (ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. ) will launch new Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 9000 series-based products. The flagship 9050 model features two complete processing cores and nearly triples the cache or memory reservoir versus Intel's previous generation. It also can execute four instructions or threads per processor enhanced by Intel's Hyper-Threading technology. The new Dual-Core Itanium 2 processors represent the world's most intricate product design to date with more than 1.7 billion transistors. This allows Intel designers to deliver new features to the Itanium processor family that create robust virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. capabilities, enhanced cache reliability and other mainframe-like capabilities. Unlike products from the remaining RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. vendors, the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processor 9000 series offers end-user freedom through a broad choice of software with more than 8,000 applications in production. Itanium processor-based servers and high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) systems are unique in the industry. They provide mission critical support for Windows*, Linux*, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). * and other operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. as well as new migration tools off of proprietary servers and mainframes -- delivering unbeatable flexibility and a confident adoption path for IT managers to migrate to a standards-based architecture. The Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series delivers performance at a system scale unmatched by competing RISC architectures. It set world record results in several key server benchmarks including a score of 4230 SPEC_int_rate_base_2000(1), nearly triple the previous record. "Intel remains focused on removing the proprietary shackles that remain in the high-end of the server market segment, and with Dual-Core Itanium 2 processors we are delivering unprecedented IT freedom with a product that excels in performance, reliability and improved energy efficiency," said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager, Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. "The broad system and software support for Itanium 2 processors enables CIOs to move away from aging and expensive legacy systems and instead direct those funds toward standard-based computing and business innovation. "In virtually all areas, momentum for Itanium-based systems is growing. More applications were added during the first half this year than were available in 2003 and more than 70 percent of the top Global 100 companies are choosing Itanium technology. In addition, the Itanium Solutions Alliance has committed $10 billion of hardware support through 2010 to the architecture." Dual-core Itanium 2-based systems target the most compute intensive areas, such as business analytics, large data warehouses and HPC areas. This is increasingly important as companies continue to strive for real-time decision making based on increasingly large amounts of data; and scientists, engineers and researchers seek to solve medical, climatic and other challenges through the use of computing power. The Itanium 2 processor's EPIC architecture design provides high levels of parallelism and computational capabilities, driving greater efficiency into analytics applications and business intelligence software. "Microsoft Windows Server 2003* and Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 2005* on the new dual-core, multi-threaded Itanium 2 processor will provide exceptional performance, scalability and reliability to enterprise customers with database workloads and line of business applications," said Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. "Microsoft is resolute in its support of the Itanium architecture, today and in the future." Intel Itanium 2 Virtualization Technology Intel Virtualization Technology See VT. (VT) is built into Itanium 2 processors to enhance support for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and industry virtual machine monitors (VMMs). The built-in scalability, performance and industry leading reliability capabilities of Itanium 2-based servers provide an outstanding platform for consolidating proprietary solutions onto industry standards-based servers. Virtualization can help lower the total cost of ownership by assisting with the migration and consolidation of different software applications from proprietary platforms to industry standard hardware and operating systems. Supporting the Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series are two rack-optimized Intel server systems: SR870BH2 and SR870BN4. These server systems provide the optimum performance, reliability and expandability that scalable business solutions and mission-critical applications demand and are available today to OEMs and systems integrators for enterprise and high-performance computing. Pricing and availability Intel dual- and single-core Itanium 2 processors are shipping today with systems coming available in late August and growing throughout the year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual-Core Itanium 2 processor 9050 1.6GHz 24M 533/400 MHz $3692 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual-Core Itanium 2 processor 9040 1.6GHz 18M 533/400 MHz $1980 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual-Core Itanium 2 processor 9030 1.6GHz 8M 533/400 MHz $1552 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual-Core Itanium 2 processor 9020 1.42GHz 12M 533/400 MHz $ 910 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual-Core Itanium 2 processor 9015 1.4GHz 12M 400 MHz $ 749 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Itanium 2 processor (single core) 9010 1.6GHz 6M 533/400 MHz $ 696 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About Intel Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. Intel, the Intel logo and Itanium 2 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. (1): result published on www.spec.org Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/limits.htm or call (U.S.) 1-800-628-8686 or 1-916-356-3104. Copyright (C) 2006, Intel Corporation. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Configuration details: Performance Claim: Based on SPEC publication (SPECint_rate_base_2000) Source www.spec.org : Itanium(R) 2 processor results of 4230 on SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. Altix 4700 system, using 128 Itanium(R) 2 processors (128 processors, 256 Cores), 1.6GHz with 24MB L3 cache, 512GB memory, SGI ProPACK 4 SP3 OS, published on 18th July'2006. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation has published highest result of 1063 on IBM eServer p5 595 (1900 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. , 64 CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. ), 64 cores, 32 chips, 2 cores/chip (SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount. (2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software. SMT - Station Management on), 256 GB memory and on OS AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. 5L V5.3, published in Oct'2004. Sun Microsystems has published a result of 1213 on Sun Fire E25K (72 processor), 144 cores, 72 chips, 2 cores/chip, UltraSPARC IV+, 1.5Ghz, 288 GB memory, on Solaris 10 and result published in Dec'2005. |
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