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* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Meeting Todays HPC Challenges Versatile, scalable solutions to enable innovation Performance Adaptability Integration and Consistency CPU Bound Memory Bandwidth Bound Memory Capacity Bound Flexibility / Cost Sensitive For demonstration purposes only

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Xeon ® 7500 Series CPU Bound Memory Bandwidth Memory Capacity Xeon ® 5600 Series Cost Sensitive HPC Platform Decision Criteria

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Xeon ® Processor 5600 Series Building on Xeon® 5500 Leadership Capabilities Xeon ® GHz 130W, 4C 3.33 GHz 130W, 6C 3.06 GHz 95W, 4C 2.93 GHz 95W, 6C Greater performance at the same power Greater performance for bandwidth sensitive apps. Up to MHz DIMMs per channel. Nehalem Micro-architecture + 32nm CPU = greater perf. and perf./watt Providing more performance for data intensive workloads Up to 6 cores, Up to 12MB Cache. Delivering more into the same package…increasing perf./$ PCI Express* 2.0 ICH 10/10R Intel ® GbE Controller

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Xeon ® 5600 A New Generation of Intelligent Processors Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Knows Where to Put the Speed, Knows How to Save Energy HPC Applications, SPECfp*_rate & STREAM Bandwidth Sensitive appsFrequency Sensitive apps

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Xeon ® 5500 Xeon ® 5600 SKU Transition Advanced 6.4 GT/s QPI 8MB / 12MB DDR Turbo Boost HT Advanced 6.4 GT/s QPI 8MB / 12MB DDR Turbo Boost HT Standard 5.86 GT/s QPI 8MB / 12MB DDR Turbo Boost HT Standard 5.86 GT/s QPI 8MB / 12MB DDR Turbo Boost HT Basic 4.8 GT/s QPI 4M cache DDR3 800 Basic 4.8 GT/s QPI 4M cache DDR W L5640 6C 2.26 GHz Xeon ® 5500Usage Xeon ® 5600 (Xeon 5600-EP) X GHz X GHz X GHz E GHz E GHz E GHz E GHz E GHz 95W 80W E (2C) 80W X5670 6C 2.93 GHz X5660 6C 2.80 GHz X5650 6C 2.66 GHz E5640 4C 2.66 GHz E5630 4C 2.53 GHz E5620 4C 2.40 GHz 95W 80W X5680 6C 3.33 GHz 130W E GHz (4C) E GHz (4C) 80W E GHz (2C) 80W 60W 80W L5630 4C 2.13 GHz 40W L5609 4C 1.86 GHz 40W Xeon ® 5600 (WSM-EP) SKUs 4C Xeon ® 5500 SKUs Low Power Options X5677 4C 3.46 GHz 130W Freq-Optimized X5667 4C 3.06 GHz 95W Maximum Performance 6 Cores 4 Cores (freq optimized) Cost-Optimized Higher Frequency Xeon ® E5500 SKUs Best Price Performance Higher Freq More Cache

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Xeon ® 5600 Sku Benefits SPECint_rate_base2006* (Linux) Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series Xeon 5680 Xeon 5506 Xeon 5630 Xeon 5650 Xeon 5640 Xeon 5660 Xeon 5620 Xeon 5507 Advanced Standard Basic Xeon 5670 Even better ROI opportunity with Xeon® 5600 (WSM-EP) Differentiation: Frequency QuickPath CPU Cache TurboBoost Hyper-threading 6 core Up to 39% Performance Boost Up to 46% Performance Boost Performance Boost Xeon 5500 lineup Xeon® 5500 source: Intel internal measurements submitted to for SPECint_rate_2006 on March 16, Turbo Boost and Intel HT are both ON. Complete configuration details at Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations.Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation Performance Refresh 1:1 5 racks of Intel ® Xeon ® 5600 Based Servers 5x Up to 5x Performance 10% 10% Annual Energy Costs Estimated Reduction 2010 Efficiency Refresh 1:1 15 racks of Intel ® Xeon ® 5600 Based Servers 15x Up to 15x Performance 8% 8% Annual Energy Costs Estimated Reduction 2006 EP Server Refresh: 2010 Increasing your performance while decreasing your Energy cost Source: Intel estimates as of Jan Performance comparison using SPECjbb2005 bops (business operations per second). Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. For detailed calculations, configurations and assumptions refer to the legal information slide in backup racks of Intel ® Xeon ® Single Core Servers 5 racks of Intel ® Xeon ® Dual Core Servers

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Xeon ® Super Node Delivering large memory, innovative solutions to HPC 2.66 GHz 130W, 6C 2.26 GHz 130W, 8C Meeting the needs of frequency sensitive HPC users Higher Frequency Ideal for large memory and memory bandwidth sensitive workloads Support for Node Controller 8X the bandwidth* 4X the capacity* The super node delivers the necessary compute, memory and memory bandwidth performance to solve big science faster. 50% More Cache*/ 33% More Cores* Providing more performance for data intensive workloads Scalable to 256 sockets for large, scalable workloads *See legal disclaimer in backup

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Workload Requirements Maximum scalability Large memory & cache Minimize node to node communication Single system image Transforming HPC with Super Node Scalability Xeon ® 7500 Manufacturing CAEEnergyLife Science Weather FSI Transformative Designs by:

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. BasicBasicStandardStandardAdvancedAdvanced Using Advanced Intel ® Xeon ® 7500 Processors for HPC Selection Guidance X7560X7550X6550X7542E7540E7530E6540E7520 Frequency 2.26 GHz2.0 GHz 2.66 GHz2.0 GHz1.86 GHz2.0 GHz1.86 GHz Cores Cache 24M18M 12M18M QPI 6.4 GT/s 5.86 GT/s6.4 GT/s5.8 GT/s6.4 GT/s4.8 GT/s Power Rqmt 130W 105W 95W Scalable w/o NC Yes NoYes NoYes Scalable to xx w/o NC 8S NA8S 4SNA4S Optimized for HPC Maximize Cores, scalability, frequency and price Optimized for HPC Maximize Cores, scalability, frequency and price

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Nehalem-EX delivers up to 2.4x average / 2.7x max HPC app performance** Intel ® Xeon® 7500 Performance Summary 4S HPC Benchmarks Comparison to 5600 Series HPC Benchmark Suite Relative Geometric Mean Scores by segment. Higher is better. Maximum performance observed in suite** See legal disclaimer in backup

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. X7542 performs and average of ~0.9x on HPC apps at a lower CPU price** Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 series-based Server 4S Nehalem-EX HPC Benchmarks Top-Bin vs. Frequency Optimized SKU HPC Benchmark Suite Relative Average Scores by segment. Higher is better. Source: Intel Internal measurements Dec See backup for additional details ** proposed 1Ku list price vs. X7560

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. 1x Intel Xeon X7542 (18M, 2.66 GHz, code name Nehalem-EX) 2.6x Intel Xeon X5680 (12M, 3.33 GHz, code name Westmere-EP) Intel ® Xeon ® Processor 7500 series-based Server HPC performance on seis-kernel1 internal workload Source: Intel measured results 12 February See backup for additional details. Consolidate up to 2.6x 2S servers to 1x 4S server Compares performance of multiple 2S nodes to a single 4S node Seismic exploration workload takes advantage of additional cores and cache Consider ROI/TCO factors when making purchasing decisions Courtesy: Cobalt Exploration. How many 2S servers are required for equivalent performance on a single 4S super-node server?

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation Performance Refresh 1:1 100 Intel ® Xeon ® 7500 Based Servers 20x Estimated Up to 20x Performance Server Refresh Benefits (Single Core) Source: Intel estimates as of February Performance comparison using internal workload. Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. For detailed calculations, configurations and assumptions refer to the legal information slide in backup Intel ® Xeon ® Single Core 4-socket Servers

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Performance Expandability RAS Versatility to Meet the Demanding HPC Market *Number shown is per processor socket ** Typical configurations: 2-socket 5600 and 4-socket 7500 Xeon 7500 Mission Critical Class reliability supports such advanced reliability features as Machine Check Architecture-recovery Super Node Scalability with EX; Performance / Sq. Meter with EP Xeon 5600 (EP)Xeon 7500 (EX) Architecture-Mfg Process Westmere-32nmNehalem-45nm Cores / Threads Up to 6 / 12Up to 8 / 16 Cache (Level 3) Up to 12MBUp to 24MB Core Frequency Up to 3.46GhzUp to 2.66Ghz Intel Technologies: Hyper-threading, Turbo Boost Processor Socket Scalability 2Up to 256 Intel QuickPath Interconnects 24 DDR3 Memory Slots*Up to 9 DIMMsUp to 16 DIMMs Memory Bandwidth 1.0X1.15X I/O Slots (typical configuration)** Reliability FeaturesStandard ClassMission Critical Class

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel Technology is Changing HPC TCO, Performance, Reliability Intel IT evaluation results. Extreme Performance Power Efficient Reduce System Cost Increased Reliability Solid State Disk Optimize Performance for I/O Intensive Apps and Boot Drive Replacement Learn more click hereclick here Optimize Performance for I/O Intensive Apps and Boot Drive Replacement Learn more click hereclick here Bridging the Gap Between 1GbE and InfiniBand ® Learn more Click hereClick here Bridging the Gap Between 1GbE and InfiniBand ® Learn more Click hereClick here iWARP Low-latency Price/Power Performance 10Gb Ethernet

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* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intelligent Features Intelligent Designs Intelligent Wide range of platform designs to adapt to a wide variety of workloads requirements Intel ® Turbo Boost Technology Intel ® Hyper-Threading technology More power states

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Optimization One Development Environment – Multi-Core to Many Core Simplify Your Parallelism Development Performance Optimize/TunePerformance Code Add ParallelismCode Confidence CorrectnessConfidence Assist Architectural AnalysisAssist For more information click hereclick here

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel Software Tools Increase Efficiency in Reservoir Development ECLIPSE FrontSim, an industry leading 3D simulator that models multiphase fluid flow along streamlines, is experiencing amazing scalability of 21x from 1 to 24 cores on a single node with the new Intel® Xeon® Processor X7542. Through the continued collaboration with Intel and the use of their industry leading software tools, we optimize our softwares ability to scale performance. As a result, our Oil and Gas customers can understand fluid flow and geological influences on reservoirs significantly sooner, allowing them to consider more and more complex reservoir scenarios faster and with higher accuracy, increasing efficiency in reservoir development. - - Jim Brady, Vice President of Technology, Schlumberger SIS

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Integration and Consistency Enabling You to Confidently deploy a HPC cluster EASY Certified Cluster Configurations Intel ® Cluster Checker to Validate Simplification Application Interoperability Out of Box Experience For more information click hereclick here

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Cluster Ready One Cluster Architecture. More Opportunities. Lower Cost. A well-defined architecture that helps eliminate the wide variance for testing and support Expand your market, grow user base Isolate customers hardware and software problems remotely with Intel ® Cluster Checker Faster and easier for your customers to deploy, manage, and use HPC solutions Architecture provides hardware- software integration and interoperability, reducing design and manufacturing time Design and Build Over and Over Using One Cluster Architecture Validate and Verify Your Cluster Configuration Using Intel ® Cluster Checker Allows You to Design and Build with Multiple Pre-qualified Applications

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. The Future Looks Bright Breakthrough Technology Year After Year 45nm Intel ® Xeon 5400 Intel ® Xeon 5500 Nehalem EX45nm Intel ® Xeon 5400 Intel ® Xeon 5500 Nehalem EX Future A leap ahead in technologyFuture 22nm Continue to deliver world class processor technology22nm 32nm Westmere – more cores Sandy Bridge – higher integration32nm Westmere – more cores Sandy Bridge – higher integration Silicon and Software Tools Unleash Performance All products, dates, and figures are preliminary and are subject to change without any notice.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. HPC Leadership – Certified cluster configurations, simplifying deployment – Use Intel ® Cluster Checker to validate configurations: ensure a highly reliable solution – Easily optimize application performance, reducing software coding resources – Develop highly portable, parallel software – Up to 60%* performance gains with Xeon ® 5600 – High frequency sku (X7542) for Xeon ® 7500 – Xeon ® 7500 scales beyond 8 sockets Performance Adaptability Integration and Consistency Integration and Consistency Innovative, scalable HPC solutions *BLACKSCHOLES*: Baseline Configuration and Score on Benchmark:- Intel pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 8 MB last level cache, 6.4 GT/sec QPI), 24GB memory (6x4GB DDR3-1333), 4 x 150GB 10K RPM SATA RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat* EL 5 Update 4 64-bit OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of February SunGard v3.0 source code compiled with Intel v11.0 compiler. Elapsed time to run benchmark: seconds.

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* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Cluster Ready applications execute on top of the architecture Intel® Cluster Ready Architecture One Architecture Meant To Maximize Your Products Potential Reach Wide variety of system software capable of providing compliant software stacks The architecture promotes seamless utilization of a wide range of network, storage and hardware solutions. Intel ® Cluster Ready certified solutions are easily paired with registered applications

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. What does it mean to certify a solution? Certification means designing a solutions that is compliant with the Intel Cluster Ready specification and is repeatable. It also means that certified systems can run multiple certified applications on the same certified cluster. Get the Intel® Cluster Ready Seal of Approval Certifying Every System as Intel Cluster Ready Develop cluster recipes with Intel ® Cluster Ready specification Intel ® Cluster Ready Hardware System Certification Process Certify your system is Intel Cluster Ready compliant Integrate Intel Cluster Ready into manufacturing process Prepare sales and marketing for Intel Cluster Ready

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Validates the system contains the architecture Provides detailed diagnostic information in an easy-to-read format 100+ checks for a wide array of cluster evaluations or create your own More About Intel® Cluster Checker Helping You Get to Market Faster and Support Customers Better Helps isolate system problems from application problems Intel Cluster Checker dashboard clearly depicts system health Helps reduce the time spent troubleshooting and helps minimize the number of support personnel needed

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet for HPC Price/Perf. Ultra-low Latency HPC Fabric Needs? SFP+ NIC (Blade or SFP+) Niantic (82599) Dual 10GbE NIC or LOM L2 I/F, small packet perf. Integrated KR interfaces Storage: iSCSI, FCoE Integrated KR/SFI Power: 5.2W typical LOM NE020 (NetEffect) iWARP 10GbE NIC RDMA apps over Ethernet iWARP I/F for RDMA apps Single-digit µs latency OS: RH/SLES OFED,W2K8 Power: 8.5W typical SFP+ NIC Great perf. & driver support - Wall Street BladeCenter 10GbE Mezz. - IBM T100 Efficiency in T250 Super- computer - Biomedical Firm 10GbE RDMA Messaging s/w - NYSE Intel® Ethernet It Just Works

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel® Ethernet Server Cluster Adapters w/ iWARP –Low-latency 10Gb Ethernet –iWARP (RDMA over Ethernet) –5s latency for <10 connections –<25s for 64 connections –User-space placement avoids copies & context switches –Ethernet alternative to InfiniBand –Standards-based Ethernet –Full Interoperability with Ethernet infrastructure –Uses existing IP manageability IT practices –OS Support –Linux: OFED support in Red Hat & SUSE –Windows: Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 –Adapter Feature Support –PCI Express v1.1 x8 Interface –256MB local memory – ECC protected –PXE Boot*, Wake on LAN –LAN Interfaces: CX4 or SFP+ Ethernet iWARP PCIe Sys Driver Application OS Stack IO Lib S/W H/W Basic Network Controller Flow TCP/IP Kernel User Avoid Copies & Kernel iWARP Network Controller Flow Without iWARP With iWARP Shipping Now!

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Top500 Class Supercomputer w/ iWARP Where Would it Land on November 2009 Top500 List? –155th in overall performance –73th in overall efficiency –Next most Efficient Ethernet Cluster –70% & 20.6TF which ranks #486 Cluster Hardware Details – 4032 cores, 1008 Sockets, Intel® Xeon GHz – 504 servers, Dell R610 – 12TB of system memory (24GB/node) – 40TB of storage (80GB/node) – 10GbE iWARP Fabric > Intels NetEffect Server Cluster Adapter DA > Arista Networks 7148SX low- latency switches – 2.3 to 1 Oversubscribed Fabric Cluster Software Details – Intel MPI – uDAPL TeraFLOPs 84.14% Efficiency

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Financial Messaging Performance CLUSTER DETAILS: 12 servers/nodes Red Hat 1 Publisher 12 Subscribers Arista port 10Gb Switch SFP+ Twinax Cabling NODE DETAILS: 2x Intel E GHz 16GB 1066MHz DDR3 NYSE Data Fabric Messaging NetEffect Server Cluster Adapter (10Gb Ethernet) Red Hat 5.3 OFED Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit

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* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. A Family of Processors to Meet Your HPC Needs Powerful, Intelligent, Adaptable Average of 3x performance claim based on geometric mean of four industry- standard, common enterprise benchmarks (SPECjbb*2005, SPECint*_rate_base2006, SPECfp*_rate_base2006, and TPC Benchmark* E) comparing best published / submitted results on 4-socket (4S) Intel Xeon processor X7560 –based server platform to best published 4S Intel Xeon processor X7460 –based server platform as of March 26, BLACKSCHOLES*: Baseline Configuration and Score on Benchmark:- Intel pre- production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 8 MB last level cache, 6.4 GT/sec QPI), 24GB memory (6x4GB DDR3-1333), 4 x 150GB 10K RPM SATA RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat* EL 5 Update 4 64-bit OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of February SunGard v3.0 source code compiled with Intel v11.0 compiler. Elapsed time to run benchmark: seconds.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Xeon ® 5600 A New Generation of Intelligent Processors STREAM: Baseline Configuration and Score on Stream-MP Benchmark:- Intel pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 12MB L3, 6.4 GT/s, Quad-core, 130W TDP), C3 Disabled, C6 Enabled, Turbo Disabled, HT Disabled, NUMA Enabled, 24 GB (6x4GB DDR DR registered ECC), 1x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD, Red Hat EL5-U4 kernel el5 experimental.8). Source: Intel internal testing TR1012. Score of workloads: MB/s New Configuration and Score on Stream-MP Benchmark:- Intel pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33 GHz, 12MB L3, 6.4 GT/s, Hex-core, 130W TDP), C3 Disabled, C6 Enabled, Turbo Disabled, HT Disabled, NUMA Enabled, 24 GB (6x4GB DDR DR registered ECC), 1x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD, Red Hat EL5-U4 kernel el5 experimental.8). Source: Intel internal testing as of Feb Score of workloads: 43000MB/s. CAE: Baseline Configuration and Score on CAE Vertical: 2-socket server with Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 8MB LLC, 6.4 GT/S QPI, 95W TDP), Turbo Enabled, HT Enabled or Disabled for best performance on each application, 24 GB memory (6x4GB DDR registered ECC), 4x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat* EL bit OS ( el5). Source: Intel internal testing as of January Geometric mean score for nine applications New Configuration and Score on CAE Vertical: Intel pre-production 2-socket server with Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33 GHz, 12MB LLC, 6.4 GT/S QPI, 130W TDP), Turbo Enabled, HT Enabled or Disabled for best performance on each application, 24 GB memory (6x4GB DDR registered ECC), 4x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat bit OS ( el5). Source: Intel internal testing as of January Geometric mean score for nine applications SPECfp_rate: 25% gain on SPECfp_rate_base2006 over previous generation supported by the following: Baseline Configuration and Score: Score 197, Referenced as published at New Configuration and Score: Dell PowerEdge R710 system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33 GHz, 12MB L3, 6.4 GT/s, six-core, 130W TDP), Maximum Performance Power Management mode, Data Reuse Disabled, C1E Enabled, Turbo Enabled, HT Enabled, 48 GB (12x4GB DDR registered ECC), 1x146GB 15K RPM SAS HDD, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 ( smp). Source: Submitted to for publication as of March Geomean Score of 17 workloads: 248. LIFE SCIENCES: Baseline Configuration and Score on Life Sciences Vertical: 2-socket server with Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 8MB LLC, 6.4 GT/S QPI, 95W TDP), Turbo Enabled, HT Enabled or Disabled for best performance on each application, 24 GB memory (6x4GB DDR registered ECC), 4x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat* EL bit OS ( el5). Source: Intel internal testing as of January Geometric mean score for ten applications New Configuration and Score on Life Sciences Vertical: Intel pre-production 2-socket server with Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33 GHz, 12MB LLC, 6.4 GT/S QPI, 130W TDP), Turbo Enabled, HT Enabled or Disabled for best performance on each application, 24 GB memory (6x4GB DDR registered ECC), 4x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat bit OS ( el5). Source: Intel internal testing as of January Geometric mean score for ten applications LINPACK: Baseline Configuration and Score on Linpack Benchmark:- Supermicro* pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 8MB L3, 6.4 GT/s, Quad-core, 95W TDP), BIOS rev 02/23/2009, C3 Disabled, C6 Enabled, Turbo Enabled, HT Disabled, NUMA Enabled, 24 GB (6x4GB DDR DR registered ECC), 1x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD, Red Hat EL5-U3 kernel el5 for x86_64). Source: Intel internal testing TR1011A. Score of workloads: 91 GFlops. New Configuration and Score on Linpack Benchmark:- Supermicro* pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33 GHz, 12MB L3, 6.4 GT/s, Hex- core, 130W TDP), BIOS rev 01/06/2010, C3 Disabled, C6 Enabled, Turbo Enabled, HT Disabled, NUMA Enabled, 24 GB (6x4GB DDR DR registered ECC), 1x150GB 10K RPM SATA HDD, Red Hat EL5-U4 kernel el5 experimental.8). Source: Intel internal testing as of Feb Score of workloads: 146 GFlops. BLACKSCHOLES*: Baseline Configuration and Score on Benchmark:- Intel pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 8 MB last level cache, 6.4 GT/sec QPI), 24GB memory (6x4GB DDR3-1333), 4 x 150GB 10K RPM SATA RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat* EL 5 Update 4 64-bit OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of February SunGard v3.0 source code compiled with Intel v11.0 compiler. Elapsed time to run benchmark: seconds. New Configuration and Score on Benchmark:- Intel pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33 GHz, 12 MB last level cache, 6.4 GT/sec QPI), 24GB memory (6x4GB DDR3-1333), 4 x 150GB 10K RPM SATA RAID0 for scratch, Red Hat* EL 5 Update 4 64-bit OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of February SunGard v3.0 source code compiled with Intel v11.0 compiler. Elapsed time to run benchmark: seconds.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Performance Publication Opportunities Westmere-EP PlatformTarget SegmentBenchmarkTarget Score Target Date Server BenchmarksIntegerSPECint_rate Floating pointSPECfp_rate JavaSPECjbb2005 (Oracle JVM) 760K SPECjbb2005 (Sun HotSpot JVM) 835K SPECjbb2005 (IBM J9 JVM) 890K SPECjvm WebSPECweb2005/ PHP ERPSAP-SD (MS) 4420 Business IntelligenceTPC-H TBD DatabaseTPC-C 903K TPC-E 1200 PowerSPECpower_ssj % VirtualizationVMMark 32.2 SPECvirt_sc2009 ? HPCManufacturingLS-Dyna TBD Fluent TBD Abaqus TBD HPCOMPSPECOMP2001 TBD SPECMPI2007 TBD

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Nehalem-EP to Westmere-EP Comparison Nehalem-EPWestmere-EP Cores2 or 4 cores4 and 6 core SKUs Cache Size4 or 8 MBUp to 12 MB Max DPC & config2-3 RDIMMs or 2 UDIMMs Same max (3DPC) as NHM-EP; (LV DDR3 up to 1066 MHz 2DPC) Intel ® TXT (formerly LT- SX) NoYes Virtualization TechnologyEPT, VPID, etc. adds Real Mode support and transition latency reduction New Instructions(baseline)AES-NI, PCMULQDQ TDPServer/Workstation: 130W, 95W, 80W, 60W, <=45W Max DIMMs per channel supported is memory speed dependent Drop-in replacement for existing Intel 5500 Chipset platforms

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Nehalem-EX Super Node Delivering large memory, innovative solutions to HPC **Xeon 7500 offers performance, feature and other metrics up to the levels shown 1. 8X the bandwidth: Per Intel internal memory BW measurement vs. previous generation Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series based solutions 2. 4x the capacity: Previous generation Intel ®7300 Chipset supported up to 8 DIMMs per channel x 4 x 16GB DIMMs = 512GB. Intel® Xeon 7500 series glueless 8 socket configuration can support 16 DIMMs per socket x 8 sockets x 16GB DIMMs = 2,048GB. 4X the memory capacity of previous generation 3. 50% more Cache/ 33% more Cores: Previous generation Xeon 7400 offers: 16MB cache and 6 cores. Xeon 7500 offers up to 24MB cache (50% increase) and 8 cores (33% increase)

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. HPC Super-Node Nehalem-EX 4S –Source: Intel Internal measurements November2009. – Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, Go to: Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Source: Intel Internal measurements November2009. See backup for additional details

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. 5 Month Single Core Refresh ROI Claim – Back Up –5 month ROI claim estimated based on comparison between 2S Single Core Intel® Xeon® 3.80 with 2M L2 Cache and 2S Intel® Xeon® X5670 based servers. Calculation includes analysis based on performance, power, cooling, electricity rates, operating system annual license costs and estimated server costs. This assumes 8kW racks, $0.10 per kWh, cooling costs are 2x the server power consumption costs, operating system license cost of $900/year per server, per server cost of $7200 based on estimated list prices and estimated server utilization rates. All dollar figures are approximate. Performance and power comparisons are based on estimated server side java benchmark results (Intel Corporation Jan 2010). Platform power was estimated during the steady state window of the benchmark run and at idle. Performance gain compared to baseline was 15x. –Baseline platform: Intel server platform with two 64-bit Intel Xeon Processor 3.80Ghz with 2M L2 Cache, 800 FSB, 8x1GB DDR2-400 memory, 1 hard drive, 1 power supply, Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 Ent. SP1, Oracle* JRockit* build P windows-x86_64 run with 2 JVM instances –New platform: Intel server platform with two six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5670, 2.93 GHz, 12MB L3 cache, 6.4QPI, 12 GB memory (6x2GB DDR3-1333), 1 hard drive, 1 power supply, Microsoft Windows Server bit SP2, Oracle* JRockit* build P run with 2 JVM instances –Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Single Core Energy Efficient Refresh Calculation Details Delta / Notes ProductIntel® Xeon® 3.8GHz with 2M cache Intel® Xeon® X5670 (2.93GHz) Performance per Server 1Up to 15x increaseIntel internal measurements on a server side java benchmark as of Jan 2010 Server Power Idle / Active Power 228W idle / 382W active 118W idle / 375W active Server idle for 16 hours per day and active for 8 hours per day # Servers needed31521~ 15:1 server consolidation # Racks needed15 racks1 rack 15:1 Rack Consolidation Annual Server kWhr 772,904Estimated: 38,184 Estimated 93% lower energy costs Total Annual Energy Costs $154,581Estimated: $7,637$146,944 electricity cost reduction per year. Assumes $0.10/kWhr and 2x cooling factor Operating System Licensing Costs $283,500$18,900$264,600 less per year Assumes a RHEL 1yr license at $900 Source as of 12/16/08 Estimated Annual Cost Savings of $411,544 Cost of new HWn/a$151,200Assume $7,200 per server Estimated Payback Period of 5 months For Backup, but not required as part of disclaimer

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. 15 Month Dual Core Refresh ROI Claim – Back up 15 month ROI claim estimated based on comparison between 2S Dual Core Intel® Xeon® 5160 (3.0GHz) and 2S Intel® Xeon® X5670 based servers. Calculation includes analysis based on performance, power, cooling, electricity rates, operating system annual license costs and estimated server costs. This assumes 8kW racks, $0.10 per kWh, cooling costs are 2x the server power consumption costs, operating system license cost of $900/year per server, per server cost of $7200 based on estimated list prices and estimated server utilization rates. All dollar figures are approximate. Performance and power comparisons are based on estimated server side java* benchmark results (Intel Corporation Jan 2010). Platform power was estimated during the steady state window of the benchmark run and at idle. Performance gain compared to baseline was 5x. –Baseline platform: Intel server platform with two dual core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 2.93GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 8x2GB FBDMIMM DDR2-667 memory, 1 hard drive, 1 power supply, Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 Ent. SP1, Oracle* JRockit* build P windows-x86_64 run with 2 JVM instances –New platform: Intel server platform with two six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5670, 2.93 GHz, 12MB L3 cache, 6.4QPI, 12 GB memory (6x2GB DDR3-1333), 1 hard drive, 1 power supply, Microsoft Windows Server bit SP2, Oracle* JRockit* build P run with 2 JVM instances Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Dual Core Energy Efficient Refresh Calculation Details Delta / Notes ProductIntel Xeon 5100 series (3.00GHz) Intel® Xeon® X5670 (2.93GHz) Performance per Server 1Up to 5x increaseIntel internal measurements on a server side java benchmark as of Jan 2010 Server Power Idle / Active Power 252W idle / 354W active 118W idle / 375W active Server idle for 16 hours per day and active for 8 hours per day # Servers needed :1 server consolidation # Racks needed5 racks1 rack 5:1 Rack Consolidation Annual kWhr281,883Estimated: 38,184 Estimated 83% lower energy costs Annual Energy Costs $56,376Estimated: $7,637$45,120 electricity cost reduction per year. Assumes $0.10/kWhr and 2x cooling factor OS Licensing Costs$100,800$18,900$75,600 less per year Assumes a RHEL 1yr license at $900 Source as of 12/16/08 Estimated Annual Cost Savings of $120,720 Cost of new HWn/a$151,200 Estimated Payback Period of 15 months For Backup, but not required as part of disclaimer

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. EP/EX Memory Comparison Whats New in Expandable Servers – Source: Intel Internal measurements Sep See backup for additional details – Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. HPC Super-Node Nehalem-EX 4S –Source: Intel Internal measurements November2009. See backup for additional details – Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, Go to: Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel ® Xeon ® 5600 Sell-up Benefits SPECint_rate_base2006* (Linux) Xeon® 5500 source: Intel internal measurements submitted to on March 16, Turbo Boost and Intel HT are both ON. Complete configuration details at Xeon® 5600 source: Internal Intel estimates based on preliminary testing with WSM-EP 3.20 GHz SKUs. Assumes 5% performance scaling for Standard SKUs, and 35% for 6C SKUs. Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations. Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Source: Intel Internal measurements Dec See backup for additional details ** vs. X5680 Intel® Xeon® 7500 Performance Summary 4S HPC Benchmarks Comparison to 5600 Series Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, Go to: Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. HPC Benchmark Suite

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2010, Intel Corporation. Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 series-based Server 4S Nehalem-EX HPC Benchmarks Top-Bin vs. Frequency Optimized SKU Average performance of common kernel benchmarks shown by segment Compares top-bin to frequency-optimized Nehalem-EX SKU X7560 is baseline Average 0.9x scaling with X7542 Better per core memory bandwidth contributor Great price performance value with X7542 on HPC-type applications