INTEL PROJECTS record-setting
Intel® itanium® 2 processor performance on key enterprise, TECHNICAL
APPLICATIONS
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, MUNICH, Germany, May 29,
2002 - Intel Corporation today revealed performance estimates for its
forthcoming Intel® Itanium® 2 processor that address the most demanding aspects
of enterprise computing. With
higher data speeds and microarchitectural
enhancements, servers and workstations based on the
Itanium 2 processor are expected to
deliver up to 1.5 to two times the
performance of today's Itanium-based systems, significantly extending the
product line's performance over RISC-based systems on key enterprise-class
applications.
"With Itanium 2-based systems,
Intel will deliver on the promise of the Itanium architecture with
industry-leading performance on a broad range of demanding enterprise computing
and technical applications," said Mike Fister, senior vice president and general
manager for Intel's Enterprise Platforms Group. "As
system availability begins mid-year and grows throughout 2002, IT and line of
business users will be able to deploy high-performance, standards-based
technology for their most data-intensive, business-critical applications."
The Itanium 2 processor, formerly code-named
"McKinley," will be the second in a family of enterprise-class processors from
Intel that brings the performance and volume economics of the Intel Architecture
to the most demanding segments of computing. The Itanium processor family
enables a broad choice of reliable and scalable platforms and software for
high-end servers and workstations at significantly lower costs and greater
performance than proprietary offerings.
Based on tests of Itanium
2-based prototype systems, Intel projects that the Itanium 2 processor will
deliver outstanding performance on the following applications:
·
Enterprise resource
planning:
Intel projects that
a four-processor Itanium 2-based
system will support more than twice
the number of sales and distribution transactions as a comparable Itanium-based
system.
·
Large database and
transaction processing:
Intel estimates that a four-processor
Itanium 2-based system will support about 50 percent more transactions per
minute than a comparable Sun UltraSparc* III system.
·
Secure e-Commerce:
Testing by Coradiant* Research, a performance management consulting group,
revealed that a prototype
two-processor Itanium 2-based server performed 1440
secure transactions per second, or
720 transactions per processor, on the RSA SSL-C benchmark. In contrast, a
four-processor Itanium-based system performed 1376
transactions per second, or 344
transactions per processor, and an eight-processor UltraSparc III system
performed 552 transactions per second, or 69
transactions per processor - less than one tenth the performance, per processor,
of the Itanium 2-based server.
·
High-performance scientific and technical computing:
On the MP Linpack* 10K benchmark, four-processor Itanium 2-based systems are
expected to achieve supercomputing-class performance of more than 13 gigaflops (billion
floating-point operations per second), almost
doubling the performance of a
comparable UltraSparc III system.
·
Mechanical computer-aided design:
For MSC.Nastran*, Intel anticipates that a single-processor Itanium 2-based
system will perform 90 percent higher than a
comparable Itanium-based system and
two to four times as fast as a comparable UltraSparc III system.
Intel also expects the Itanium
2 processor to deliver exceptional processor and system performance:
·
Memory bandwidth:
Single-processor Itanium 2-based systems using the Intel E8870 chipset are
expected to deliver 3.7 GB/s on the Stream* benchmark, which is more than 2.5
times that of a comparable Itanium-based system and more than four times the
performance of a comparable UltraSparc III system at 0.891 GB/s.
·
Floating point: On the SPECfp2000*
benchmark, single-processor Itanium2-based systems are expected to achieve
industry-leading performance with a base result of 1350, almost doubling the
base result of 701 on comparable UltraSparc III and Itanium-based systems.
·
Integer: Intel estimates that on the
SPECint2000* benchmark, single-processor Itanium 2-based systems will have a
base result of 700 or higher, approximately 30 percent better than a comparable
UltraSparc III system.
The Intel Itanium 2 processor's
outstanding performance is achieved through microarchitectural enhancements -
including 3 MB of on-die level 3 (L3) cache and additional execution units and
issue ports - and improved data speeds, including a three-fold increase in
system bus bandwidth, 1GHz frequency and improved cache latencies.
The Itanium architecture also maintains generation-to-generation software
compatibility, enabling software compiled for the Itanium processor to run on
the Itanium 2 processor with significant performance increases.
For more information about
enterprise performance and benchmarks, visit
www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/backgrnd/itanium2.htm.
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