Intel Romley server platform three big guesses

Intel Romley platform is about to be released, the new platform will undoubtedly contain a huge technical advantages, but specific to the user level, will bring users what new features? Industry analysts believe that there are three main points, namely: the popularity of the eight-core storm, Xeon E5 processor launched, PCI 3.0 technology upgrades.

The eight nuclear popularization leads the new era

The launch of the Romley platform is likely to allow eight of nuclear processors to become popular with dual-server products, leading to the arrival of the eight-core era. Although competitors have long introduced the concept of "more core" processors, and the quality of competition is lackluster and the level of publicity continues to emerge, Intel is not drifting in the core numbers, and the overall performance of the server processor remains on top of similar products. As a result, Intel is likely to use the Romley platform for the launch of the eight-core system to force, to win more market share.

Intel Xeon E5 First introduced

E3, E7 processors in the market after the formation of sales, the Xeon E5 processor has been delayed, its performance and technical indicators has been a mystery, lifting the appetite of many Intel technology fans. We know that Xeon E5 is located in dual server products, and temporarily positioned in the high-end market, after the launch of the Xeon 5600/5500 is gradually technology down. The model has been Xeon E5-1600,xeon E5-2400,xeon e5-2600/4600 and so on, but the final launch of which products need to see the official release.

The relationship between the Romley platform, the Sandybridge core, and the Xeon E5 processor is subtle, such as Xeon e5-2400, the Xeon e5-2400 family, the 2-way processor, the Romley-en platform, the Sandy bridge-en kernel, Socket B2 type interface.

PCI 3.0 technology launched

The current PCI 2.0/2.1 version of the original data transmission rate of 5gt/s, connection bandwidth 4gb/s,x1 one-way bandwidth 500mb/s,x16 two-way bandwidth 16gb/s. The goal of the next generation of PCI 3.0 is to achieve the doubling of bandwidth, that is, X1 one-way 1gb/s, X16 two-way 32gb/s, the original data transmission rate will be increased to 8gt/s, and maintain the PCI 1.x/2.x backward. It is reported that Intel has added the PCI 3.0 controller to the processor, which is a remarkable achievement, makes the CPU function more powerful, but the external chipset design is simpler.

PCI 3.0 technology is another aspect of the Romley platform, which not only promotes the performance of the server in general, but also brings great gain to the performance of the storage server. For example, PCI 2 can only provide 5gt/s maximum data transfer rate, so that Mellanox high-speed network card is limited to 26gb/s (X8 PCIe 2.0 of the actual efficiency), can not run at full speed. While the PCI 3.0 bus allows data transmission rate to reach 8gt/s, the new InfiniBand network card can achieve 40gb/s and 56gb/s transmission speed, so that data in the internal handling or external migration will be greatly facilitated.

According to Intel server accessories in the domestic general generation, Po Tong Company Marketing Technology, the Romley platform is a simple understanding of the Xeon E5 processor developed by the chipset, motherboards and related technologies to the solution platform. Baotong has been fully engaged in the transition to the Intel Romley platform from channel communication, technical training, technical support, ordering and logistics. This new product expansion can give full play to the advantages of PO denominator sales channels, so that consumers better experience the latest products, but also let Baotong in the cloud infrastructure to provide the ability to further.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)