Supermicro was at Intel’s San Francisco announcement and will display their E5-2600 platform family at CeBIT 2012 in Hanover, Germany this week. Supermicro is showing Intel’s just announced Xeon E5-2600 platforms with 8 cores per CPU, 16 threads per processor. Each CPU has a free-air cooling system designed to withstand 47 degrees Celsius operating temperature environments. Supermicro has created a new platform architecture called "Fat Twin" which comes with enhanced cooling, power savings, and lower TCO (total cost of operations), along with their own high-efficiency power supplies with integrated UPS (uninterrupted power supply) battery like dell 8649R battery , dell Inspiron 700m battery , dell Inspiron 710m battery , dell G5345 battery , dell Inspiron 8600 battery , dell Latitude D800 battery , dell Precision M60 battery , dell Inspiron 9100 battery , dell H5559 battery , dell Latitude D830 battery , dell Latitude D820 battery , dell Precision M65 battery backup.
The Xeon E5-2600 is one of a family of server chips based on the Sandy Bridge architecture that Intel shipped in late 2011 and says will ship in volume for 2012. Very few Sandy Bridge desktop CPUs are actually in the hands of OEM/ODMs. All Sandy Bridge processors are manufactured with Intel's 32-nanometer (nm) node process technology. This is not their announced 22nm "Tri-Gate" process that Intel says will ship later this year for the "Ivy Bridge" family of PC processors.
Each core on the Xeon E5-2600 chip has a completely revamped branch predictor for its 32KB instruction cache. The new "front end" of the processor – the L1 instruction cache, pre-decoder unit, instruction queue, decoder unit, and out-of-order execution unit – has been redesigned. Thus it can sustain a much higher level of micro-ops bandwidth and use less power by turning off elements of the front end when it can use micro-ops caches added to the chip.
We remember when Intel announced their partnership with VMware in Fall 2007 at their Folsom, CA facility. We were told then it would revolutionize the IT department’s control and work load on fewer servers. Tuesday’s E5-2600 is claiming to deliver up to 80 percent improved performance compared to the prior generation of Intel server CPUs.
Also on Tuesday, IBM announced their new server solutions based on the E5- family. They are designed to expand cloud and analytics capabilities across its entire portfolio, helping make Smarter Computing a reality for x86 clients. IBM claims their new two-socket BladeCenter HS23 server delivers 62 percent more computing power, and runs 20 percent more virtual machines than its predecessor BladeCenter HS22. The blade server will support up to four times more memory than their previous generation HS22. The HS23 blade is designed for virtualization and cloud deployments, or even database and ERP (enterprise resource planning) installations.
Adalio Sanchez, general manager, IBM System x business said: "IBM is delivering easy-to-deploy cloud and analytics products to help clients align their businesses to manage unprecedented amounts of data, and become much more efficient at turning that information into timely business insights."