New Intel server CPU roadmap 2013

[toad096]

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.

 

[Idontcare]

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.

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.

 

[toad096]

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?

 

[Ayah]

Probably an attempt to squash the ARM server market before they get any footing.

 

[Zstream]

Probably an attempt to squash the ARM server market before they get any footing.

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.

 

[ViRGE]

144 PCIe lanes off of a single CPU? Just how many pins is that dedicated to PCIe?!

 

[Ajay]

144 PCIe lanes off of a single CPU? Just how many pins is that dedicated to PCIe?!

168 pins for x16

 

[ViRGE]

168 pins for x16

Well that would be for a slot altogether. I'm more interested in CPU pins, which will be a fraction of that.

 

[ShintaiDK]

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.

 

[Face2Face]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Xeon-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Server,21972.html

I would love to have a Xeon 70w 10 core for my server mmmmm...

 

[Ajay]

Well that would be for a slot altogether. I'm more interested in CPU pins, which will be a fraction of that.

After a quick look, it seems like 8 signal lines + 64 data lines (differential pairs) or 72 total. The rest are gnd, power and hot plug detect (for the cards).
http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_PCI_Express_16x_PinOut.html

 

[Ajay]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Xeon-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Server,21972.html

I would love to have a Xeon 70w 10 core for my server mmmmm...

Hmm, IVB-EX is going to support DDR4.

 

[lagokc]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Xeon-Ivy-Bridge-EP-Server,21972.html

I would love to have a Xeon 70w 10 core for my server mmmmm...

I wonder what those 12-core CPUs and 4-socket boards are going to cost... chess analysis likes a lot of cores.

 

[NTMBK]

I wonder what those 12-core CPUs and 4-socket boards are going to cost... chess analysis likes a lot of cores.

How much do you expect it to cost? Take that number, then add a zero on the end.

 

[Hulk]

17W quad core Haswell. I'll take one of those in my next laptop please.

 

[wisersam]

Anyone able to watch the IDF presentations? I am getting "Cannot open media file" error ...

http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-3670#multimedia

 

[ViRGE]

Anyone able to watch the IDF presentations? I am getting "Cannot open media file" error ...

http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-3670#multimedia

They're working for me at the moment. The fact it requires Windows Media Player is a bit lame though.

 

[wisersam]

They're working for me at the moment. The fact it requires Windows Media Player is a bit lame though.

The Silverlight version access from Mac seems to not be broken. Don't have access to any windows machine ... too bad!

 

[gmaster456]

Looks good. I'm afraid it will be fairly irrelevant by the time we upgrade servers in 8 years.

 

[Ajay]

Looks good. I'm afraid it will be fairly irrelevant by the time we upgrade servers in 8 years.

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.

 

[gmaster456]

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.

We overhauled last year so everything should be good. We'll see I suppose.

 

[Ajay]

We overhauled last year so everything should be good. We'll see I suppose.

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".

 

[FwFred]

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".

Who needs an IT budget to replace this? A 7 year old laptop could handle that workload... or a 2 year old cellphone

 

[Headfoot]

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.

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!