On-demand data center, hosting, and cloud services provider SoftLayer Technologies (softlayer.com) has announced a new line of servers equipped with Intel's new six-core processors with 12 threads per socket with Hyper-Threading.
According to its announcement last week, SoftLayer is among the first companies in the industry to offer servers featuring the new Westmere family of Intel Xeon processors. Formerly referred to as the Nehalem-C series, Westmere processors feature up to six cores per chip, up to 12 threads per socket, and 12MB on-chip cache.
"Our customers deserve the best, and we strive to offer the latest, greatest technology. We're proud our customers can be first to leverage the new Westmere chips," said Nathan Day, SoftLayer Chief Technology Officer. "Westmere produces tangible, bottom-line benefits that any system administrator will notice, like improved total system performance with faster CPU communication between system components or other CPUs inside the server environment."
Using Intel's next-generation, 32nm manufacturing technology, the Westmere series allows for smaller form factors with more included on each chip. Multi-chip packages include multiple CPU cores as well as an integrated graphics processor, delivering better graphics and processing performance while consuming less power. Westmere also uses the Advanced Encryption Standard, a new instruction set for faster data encryption and decryption.
SoftLayer offers four Westmere servers with single processor or dual processor configurations with Intel's E5620, E5640, X5650, and X5670 models. They support three channels of DDR3 memory, Intel Turbo Boost optimization and VT performance improvements.
The second generation High-k/Metal Gate processors are quickly proving to be an important addition to any dedicated server hosting company's inventory. Last month, hosting provider The Planet (www.theplanet.com) announced the availability of the Dell PowerEdge R710 server, equipped with Intel's Xeon X5600 series processor, making it the most powerful server in the company's fleet.
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