Thread: A few official details eight-core "Sandy Bridge EP"

Previously, Intel was the Sandy Bridge EP for the server fully configured with eight cores back nobly, which is likely to be due to its move into 2012. Given the new Top 500 list of supercomputers, in the ten systems already running with the CPU, it was cheap but now some details.


The original timetable for the Intel "Sandy Bridge EP" was the middle of 2011, which could at least meet for some partners. These have received up to September this year, first Xeon E5 2600 and manufactured so that appropriate systems.


This happens also with an eye on the competition from AMD, whose Opteron 6200 a very similar way and have been gone since September first delivered for supercomputers, and so among other things, with a total of 113 472 2.3 GHz "Bulldozer" cores 12th and 90 112 nuclei with the same measure space 19 of the top 500 list occupy.


Intel also offers suitable benchmarks and first counters AMD Newcomers, who also promised substantial gains.Of course the statements of Intel should be treated with caution - as always with benchmarks manufacturer. Thanks AVX, a



quad-channel memory interface, and the more cores / threads to the newcomer with eight cores at 2.7 GHz dual-socket system in the synthetic Linpack benchmark performance of 2.1-fold the current flagship Xeon X5690 with offer six cores at 3.46 GHz - in real applications, there are 30 to 70 percent.


In addition, the first use of PCI Express 3.0 comes with 40 lanes for their bandwidth within the Supercomputing 2011 conference already Ethernet cards with 40 Gbit / s or 56 Gb / InfiniBand are announced.


According to Intel, the demand for the first real server processors based on the "Sandy Bridge" architecture is huge. More than 400 so-called "design wins" and twice as many as in the Xeon 5500/5600 has one is already on the schedule, the demand for the first batch of mass-produced even 20 times as high.


Precisely because of the shift due to the problems likely with the platform and the VT-d-bug in the C1-Stepping Intel probably annoy more than once, because today it just means that you want to use the earliest in the first half of 2012 the mass market for server systems, can more accurately.