Intel Nehalem Gainestown

The Intel® Xeon processor 5500 Gainestown series, with Intel® Microarchitecture Nehalem, brings intelligent performance to the most trusted server architecture. It is the world’s most adaptable server platform, adjusting performance and power usage in real time to meet the exact requirements of your computing workloads, while allowing manual adjustment for IT control. The Intel® Xeon 5500 Series integrates Intel® QuickPath Technology, Intel® Intelligent Power Technology and Next Generation Intel® Virtualization Technology, Intel® VT FlexMigration, Intel® VT FlexPriority, and Intel® 64 architecture and also supports Demand-based Switching (DBS). DomainGurus is proud to offer the E5530, which brings together a number of innovative technologies to deliver intelligent performance:

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, together with Intel® Intelligent Power Technology, delivers performance on demand, letting processors operate above the rated frequency to speed specific workloads and reduce power consumption during low utilization periods.
Intel® Xeon® Processor – Intel® Turbo Boost Technology Demo (.swf) (English)

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology benefits from larger caches and massive memory bandwidth, delivering greater throughput and responsiveness for multi-threaded applications.
Intel® Xeon® Processor – Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology Demo (.swf) (English)

Intel® QuickPath Technology and an integrated memory controller speed traffic between processors and I/O controllers for bandwidth intensive applications, delivering up to 3.5x the bandwidth for technical computing.
Intel® Xeon® Processor – Intel® QuickPath Technology Demo (.swf) (English)

Intel® Virtualization Technology combined with software-based virtualization solutions provide maximum system utilization by consolidating multiple environments into a single server if needed. By abstracting the software away from the underlying hardware, a world of new usage models opens up that reduce costs, increase management efficiency, strengthen security, while making your server infrastructure more resilient in the event of a disaster.
Intel® Xeon® Processor – Intel® QuickPath Technology Demo (.swf) (English)
Intel® Xeon® Processor – Intel® VT FlexMigration Demo (.swf) (English)
Intel® Xeon® Processor – Intel® VT for Connectivity Demo (.swf) (English)

Order a Dual-Quad Intel® Xeon E5530 Gainestown for up to eight computation engines, 16 threads per two-socket platform with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, and as much as 3.5x more bandwidth than previous generations. With intelligent performance technology and a new high-bandwidth interconnect architecture, the Intel® Xeon processor 5500 series delivers up to 4x greater performance for High Performance Cluster applications than Intel® dual-core processors.

Features	Benefits
Intelligent Performance	Delivers up to 2.25x performance improvement within a power envelope similar to previous processors.
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology	Boosts performance for specific workloads by increasing processor frequency.
Intel® QuickPath Technology	Delivers up to 3.5x bandwidth improvement for data-intensive applications.
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology	Boosts performance for parallel, multi-threaded applications.
Larger memory capacity	Up to 24GB of main memory supports higher performance for data-intensive applications.
Shared L3 cache	Boosts performance while reducing traffic to the processor cores.
Flexible Virtualization	Enhances virtualization performance by up to 2.1x.
Processor	Hardware assists boost virtualization performance by allowing the OS more direct access to the hardware. Intel® VT FlexMigration enables seamless migration of running applications among current and future Intel® processor-based servers. Intel® VT FlexPriority improves virtualization performance by allowing guest OSs to read and change task priorities without VMM intervention. Extended Page Tables (EPT) provide better performance by reducing the overhead caused by page-table utilization of virtual machines.
Chipset	Enables directly assignable I/O to Virtual Machines, helping speed data movement and enhancing performance.
Network	Delivers up to 2x throughput improvement with extensive hardware assists to I/O devices.