This week, Intel announced that it plans to start producing its processors, codenamed "Jasper Forest in the next few days. The announcement came shortly after reports that Intel is going to soon enter the market with its long-anticipated high-performance Itanium processor, codenamed "Tukwila.

Chip Jasper Forest is a highly sophisticated adaptation of Intel CPU Nehalem Xeon, which is intended precisely to the market data storage as well as communications. It ought to be simple to unite it with the PCI Express (PCIe) and lacking certain issues allowed to produce RAID. It is expected that this CPU will work to combine storage management, for example removing duplicate data, to save copies of data, virtualization along with basic necessities of storage management.

Taneydzha Arun, founder and consultant, analyst at Taneja Group, said that as general-purpose processors are added to the core and specialized functions such as handling RAID or hardware processing virtualization work designer storage becomes easier because there is no need to use specialized equipment to ensure excellent performance. "This cannot happen to a better time, as a virtual server supports more than one application, and performs many functions of data storage that would otherwise be performed elsewhere", ─ "he said.

Intel reported that the Jasper Forest is aimed on the market of embedded systems as well as data warehousing. Besides, this CPU will also be intended at applications for example ultra-dense blade servers, IPTV, VoIP, NAS including SAN. New processors Jasper Forest are competent of forming disks in the array RAID 5 or else 6, respectively, protecting data from one or else two disk failures.

In April last year, Intel launched its foremost Xeon CPUs based on the design of Nehalem. The recent Intel chips for storage systems are also companionable with the specification of the Storage Bridge Bay, which can be used to link directly to the controller boards, storage arrays, which lets you to make a more dense structural design. Modern controllers need a separate slot.

According to the manufacturer, the chip Jasper Forest will reduce the power consumption of storage systems at 27W as compared to Intel Xeon processor 5500. Dual-Core Intel Xeon includes two core Jasper Forest, each of which supports 16 lanes PCIe Generation 2.0, and works in tandem with Intel 3420.Integration of the controller I / O through the PCIe leads to significant savings in power and place, as a result of the new processors feature very high performance per watt. Jasper Forest also offers system designers a scalable solution from single-core processor and ending 23Vt 85Vt processor using the same socket.

It is expected that the new processors will be able to protect data against power failure by using a function which is called Integrated Asynchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory Self-Refresh. This feature automatically detects a power failure, as soon as it happens, is shut down the memory controller and makes the system memory to reboot before powering down.’

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