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Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family

Intel extended the performance capabilities of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 v4 product family with the addition of a high-performance SKU in the processor family’s Advanced SKU stack. The new SKU delivers the processor family’s highest performance to handle the most demanding, mission-critical enterprise workloads.

Businesses can use Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4-based servers to derive faster insights from the unprecedented amount of data being generated to create new services and improve customer experiences.

The Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4 combines high memory capacity and compute performance to deliver quicker results and improved productivity. The processor is targeted at scale-up workloads such as large databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), online transaction processing (OLT) and in-memory analytics. The ability to scale-up allows more resources (more sockets and more memory) to be added to a single node image.

Since its introduction in June 2016, the 14nm-based Intel Xeon processor E7-8800/4400 v4 family has delivered sustained and sizable improvements in instructions-per-cycle (IPC). Architectural and process improvements since Westmere EX E7-8800 processor family deliver up to 3.69x performance gains compared to the previous generation1,2, which provide enterprises an opportunity for refresh and TCO optimization through server consolidation. Intel continues to push innovation and process improvements with Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4, which has captured several record-breaking results based on key performance benchmarks, including SAP SD 2-Tier, SPECjbb*2015, SPECcpu2006, LINPACK and SAP BW edition on SAP HANA*.

To meet the increasing demands for 24x7x365 days availability and uptime for mission-critical systems, the processor has RAS capabilities on Intel® Run Sure Technology. These features are unique to the Intel Xeon processor E7 E7-8800 v4 family to reduce unplanned downtime, increase data integrity and reduce costs associated with lost revenue and service/maintenance.

The Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4  supports 4 to 8 sockets (up to 32 sockets via node controller) with configurations supporting up to 24 processing cores and up to 24 terabytes (TB) of memory per 8-socket system to boost in-memory analytics and achieve actionable insights in real-time.

^{1Up to 3.69x based on SPECint*_rate_base2006 performance gain when comparing E7-8870 to E7-8894 v4.}

• ^{Baseline 1.0: 1-Node, 8x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8870 with 2 TB (128 x 16 GB 4Rx4 PC3-10600R-9, ECC, running at 1066 MHz) Total Memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2, (Santiago), 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 using C/C++: Version 13.0.0.079 of Intel C++ Studio XE, for Linux. Data Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2013q1/cpu2006-20130205-25508.html, Benchmark: SPECint*_rate_base2006, Score: 2000 2) 1-Node, 8x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8894 v4 on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2800E3 with 1024 GB total Memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 Kernel 4.4.21-68-default using C/C++: Version 17.0.0.098 of Intel® C/C++ Compiler for Linux.Source: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2017q1/cpu2006-20170123-46532.pdf. SPECint*_rate_base2006 score: 7380. Higher is better.}

 ^{2Up to 35% average performance gain claim based on the following comparisons as of 7 February 2017}

• ^{Up to 1.23x claim based on SPECfp*_rate_base2006 performance gains. 1) Baseline 1.0: 1-Node, 4x Intel®Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 with 1 TB (64 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2133P-R, running at 1600 MHz) Total Memory on SUSE Linus Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64), 3.12.28-4-default using C/C++: Version 15.0.0.090 of Intel C++ Studio XE, for Linux;, Fortran: Version 15.0.0.090 of Intel Fortran, Studio XE for Linux. Data Source:https://spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2015q2/cpu2006-20150513-36349.pdf, SPECfp*_rate_base2006 score: 1980. 2) 1-Node, 4x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8894 v4 on Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX4770 M3 with 512 GB (32 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2400T-R, running at 1600 MHz) total Memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 Kernel 4.4.21-68-default using C/C++: Version 17.0.0.098 of Intel C/C++ Compiler for Linux, Version 17.0.0.098 of Intel® Fortran Compiler for Linux. Data Source:https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2017q1/cpu2006-20170123-46531.pdf. SPECfp*_rate_base2006 score: 2450. Higher is better.}
• ^{Up to 1.29x claim based on SPECjbb*2015 MultiJVM performance gains. 1) Baseline 1.0: 1-Node, 4x Intel®Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 on Cisco UCS* C460 M4 server, running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* 12 with 1024 GB memory, Oracle Java* SE 8u60, Java HotSpot 64-bit Server VM, v1.8.0_60. Source:https://spec.org/jbb2015/results/res2015q4/jbb2015-20151028-00031.html. SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM score 171,642 max-jOPS, 53,348 critical-jOPS. 2) 1-Node, 4x Intel®  Xeon® processor E7-8894 v4 on Lenovo System* x3850 X6 server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* 12 SP1 (x86_64) with 512 GB memory, Oracle Java* SE 8u111, Java HotSpot 64-bit Server VM, v1.8.0_111. Source:https://www.spec.org/jbb2015/results/jbb2015multijvm.html. SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM score: 222,149 max-jOPS, 74874 critical-jOPS. Higher is better.}
• ^{Up to 1.36x claim based on SPECint*_rate_base2006 performance gains. 1) Baseline 1.0: 1-Node, 4x Intel®Xeon® processor on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2800E2 with 1024 GB total memory running Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 6.6 (Santiago), Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel® C++ Studio XE for Linux*. Source:https://spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2015q2/cpu2006-20150513-36363.pdf. SPECint*_rate_base2006 score: 2760. 2) 1-Node, 4x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8894 v4 on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2800E3 with 512 GB (32 x 16 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2400T-R, running at 1600 MHz) total Memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 (x86_64), Kernel 4.4.21-68-default using C/C++: Version 17.0.0.098 of Intel® C/C++ Compiler for Linux. Data Source: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2017q1/cpu2006-20170123-46531.pdf. SPECint*_rate_base2006 score: 3770. Higher is better.}
• ^{Up to 1.39x more benchmark users claim based on SAP* SD 2-Tier workload, running SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0. Configurations: 1) Baseline 1.0: 1-Node, 4x Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 on Dell PowerEdge* R930 with 1048576 Total Memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1. Source: http://download.sap.com/download.epd?context=40E2D9D5E00EEF7C7D271C5E6DE6D7E842C987C4A0A3B1522ED4CB1C310CF000, SAP* SD 2-Tier Standard Application Benchmark score: 31000. 2) 2-tier, 4x Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8894 v4 (96 cores/192 threads) on Dell PowerEdge* R930 with 1024 GB total memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 7.2-kernel 3.10.0-327 using SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.20 pl510.Source: Certificate #2017001, http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx. SAP* SD 2-Tier Standard Application Benchmark score: 43,300 benchmark users. Higher is better.}
• ^{Up to 1.49x more GFlops/sec claim based on Intel Optimized MP LINPACK (MPL) workload, both on Dell PowerEdge* R930 running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 12 SP1 OS. Configurations: 1) Baseline 1.0: 1-Node, 4x Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 with 512 GB DR-RDIMM, Intel® Math Kernel Library 2017.0.004, MP-LINPACK MPI 5.1, N=170K, NB=192, P-2, Q=2. Score: 2161. 2) 1-Node, 4x Intel® Xeon®processor E7-8894 v4 with 512 GB DR-RDIMM, Intel® Math Kernel Library 2017.0.004, MP-LINPACK MPI 5.1, N=170K, NB=192, P-2, Q=2, Score: 3224. See http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20442650 for more details. Higher is better.}
• ^{World record claim based on best-published SAP* BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark* @ 1.3 billion initial records result published at http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark as of 30 January 2017. New configuration: 4x Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8894 v4 (96 cores/192 threads) on Lenovo System x3850 X6 with 2048 GB total memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 using SAP HANA 1.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.50. Benchmark: SAP BW for SAP HANA @ 1.3B initial records, Source: Certification #2017003, http://www.sap.com/solution/benchmark/appbm/netweaver.sap-bw-edition-for-sap-hana-standard-application.html. Score: Runtime of Data Load/Trans (14,939 secs), Query Executions per Hour (4,273), Runtime of Complex Query (154 seconds).}