Intel® Xeon® Processors for Workstations Accelerate Innovation - Intel® Chip Chat episode 556

Ricky Branner, Director of High Performance Scale and Emerging Business for Intel, joins us to discuss the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable and Intel Xeon W processors for workstations. An engineer at heart with more than 30 years in the technology industry, Branner helps to drive Intel's workstation business segment -- in his words, to "enable creators to really make a difference." In this interview, Branner outlines the capabilities of Intel's new workstation processors, talks about the heavyweight workloads for which customers are turning to workstations, and gives a preview of what's coming up next from Intel's workstation team. For more information on Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon W processors for workstations, please visit http://intel.com/xeonworkstations.

Configurations: Intel Xeon Scalable processor: Up to 2.71X performance versus a 4 year old workstation. Config: Based on best-published two-socket SPECfp*_rate_base2006 result submitted to/published at http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of 11 July 2017. New configuration: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180 Processor on Huawei 2288H V5 with 384 GB total memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 (x86_64) Kernel 4.4.21-69-default, using C/C++ and Fortran: Version 17.0.0.098 of Intel C/C++ and Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux. Source: submitted to www.spec.org, SPECfp*_rate_base2006 Score: 1850 compared to 1-Node, 1 node, 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2697 v2 on Cisco Systems Cisco UCS C220 M3 using 128 GB total memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago) 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 C/C++: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel C++ Studio XE for Linux; Fortran: Version 4.0.0.080 of Intel Fortran Studio XE for Linux. Source: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2013q4/cpu2006-20130923-26455.html SPECfp*_rate_base2006 Score: 682

Intel Xeon W processor: Up to 1.87X performance versus a 4 year old workstation. Config: 1-Node, 1 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1680 v2 on Romley-EP with 64 GB Total Memory on CentOS release 6.9 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 using C/C++: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel C/C++ studio XE for Linux, AVX Data Source: Request Number: 3822, Benchmark: SPECint*_rate_base2006, Score: 332 Higher is better; vs 1-Node, 1 x Intel® Xeon® W-2155 Processor on Basin Falls RVP with 128 GB Total Memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 7.3 using CPU2006-1.2-ic17.0u3-lin-binaries-20170411. Data Source: Request Number: 3821, Benchmark: SPECint*_rate_base2006, Score: 622 Higher is better

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