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New Intel server CPU roadmap 2013

toad096 said:
Look at this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/10/intel_server_chip_preview_idf_beijing/

Strictly in my opinion, the current Intel Atom processors are not powerful enough for a 10gigE NAS. i3 consumes too much power.

But according to this article more powerful Atoms are in the pipeline and also a new 17W Haswell Xeon - I hope that NAS vendors (Synology are you listening) release a new line based on these new chips.
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TheReg! Wow, there's a blast from the past. Didn't know they were still alive and kicking.

Interesting positioning between Haswell XEON and IB-E XEON.
 
TheReg is/has been very much alive. I read them practically every day - their spin is always entertaining!

I must say I was surprised by this roadmap. Is Intel speeding up their launch schedule? Especially Atoms?
 
144 PCIe lanes off of a single CPU? Just how many pins is that dedicated to PCIe?! 😱
 
It cant be that bad. Considering LGA2011 got 40 lanes(+4 for DMI), quad channel memory,voltage pins, QPI links etc. And remember the EX models uses a serial connection to memory.
 
gmaster456 said:
Looks good. I'm afraid it will be fairly irrelevant by the time we upgrade servers in 8 years.
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8 years! I hope you just recently upgraded.
My brother is sysadmin, he's running on 10 year old hardware right now because his company depends heavily on European business, which has s*cked lately. He'd like to consolidate everything except engineering onto two servers. Poor guy, I hope things pick up soon for them and he can do some upgrades.
 
Ajay said:
8 years! I hope you just recently upgraded.
My brother is sysadmin, he's running on 10 year old hardware right now because his company depends heavily on European business, which has s*cked lately. He'd like to consolidate everything except engineering onto two servers. Poor guy, I hope things pick up soon for them and he can do some upgrades.
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We overhauled last year so everything should be good. We'll see I suppose.
 
gmaster456 said:
We overhauled last year so everything should be good. We'll see I suppose.
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Cool, you must have some pretty nice hardware.

Actually, my brother still has two servers (out of 8 or 9) running dual P3 Xeons!
The IT budget is now down to "essential repair/replace only".
 
Ajay said:
Actually, my brother still has two servers (out of 8 or 9) running dual P3 Xeons!
The IT budget is now down to "essential repair/replace only".
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Who needs an IT budget to replace this? A 7 year old laptop could handle that workload... or a 2 year old cellphone 😀
 
Zstream said:
It's actually for the "Big Data" boom that is about to launch. It will be a keyword like the "cloud" was a few years back.
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Big Data is already the keyword! Ever since popular usage of stuff like Cassandra, Big Table, MapReduce, Hadoop etc. the buzzword has been "big data." Although they do manage to slip "cloud" in there quite a bit still! 😛
 
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