According to a recent “Transitioning to Intel® Haswell Microarchitecture Survey” conducted by UNICOM Engineering, 65% of respondents will begin offering Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 series CPU (code name: Haswell-EP) products within a year. Software developers and OEMs across security, network management, healthcare IT and beyond can gain a competitive advantage by transitioning to Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 processor-based platforms, but timing is critical to maximize return on investment while keeping the risk and cost parameters low.
Intel’s® Haswell microarchitecture brings computer hardware to a new level of integration and control. The Intel® Xeon® E5 2600 v3 processors featured as part of this release offer up to 18 physical cores per CPU, a 17% faster interconnect between CPUs (aka QPI), and support for DDR4 memory that is up to 13% faster than the previous generation of DDR3. Additionally, this microarchitecture adds support for the new Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) instructions, which can provide greater performance for floating point-intensive calculations in multimedia, scientific and financial applications, as well as enhancements for certain software RAID implementations under Linux. This provides substantially more compute power, which will enable 40 GbE, and later 100 GbE, to be a practical reality in standard server platforms.
Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 Prodcut Family Enhancements
In the “Transitioning to Intel® Haswell Microarchitecture Survey,” respondents concerns about the new architecture centered around incompatibility with existing compilers, math kernel libraries, DSP libraries and profiler tools, as well as the costs and/or resources required to implement the transition, including tests and evaluation. 80% of respondents currently use Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 (Sandy Bridge) processors with the majority of solutions deployed on Dell platforms. The tables below breakdown the Intel® processors and platforms most commonly in use by respondents.
Regardless of the processor or platform, software developers and OEMs can gain a competitive advantage by transitioning to Intel’s® Haswell microarchitecture. Ensuring a successful transition requires the engineering expertise to solve potential design, integration and deployment challenges – which are why many companies often turn to Intel OEM partners for assistance. Intel OEM partners maintain consistency in upgrade deployments, so they can best advise customers on what technology investments to make and when.
As a member of the Intel® IoT Solutions Alliance, UNICOM Engineering has been working diligently in preparation for the next-generation embedded platforms. This relationship has enabled us to pre-validate solutions, compressing time to market and decreasing the expense related to testing, regulatory and certifications.
These reference platforms offer a variety of integrated components and configurations to provide the flexibility required to support applications in a many markets including storage, security, telecom, digital media, healthcare IT and beyond. In addition to delivering early access to production-grade and ready to deploy test platforms, UNICOM leverages our breadth of ecosystem of partnerships to deliver optimal solutions. A methodical and comprehensive approach to designing best-in-class solutions, which can accommodate challenging technical requirements, can help streamline the transition to new Intel® Haswell microarchitecture.
To learn more, download our FREE white paper Streamlining the Transition to Intel’s Haswell Architecture, which provides a guide to successfully migrating to Next-Generation Intel® Xeon® E5 Processor-Based Servers.
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