The document discusses Intel's new Xeon E5 v3 processors and vision for hybrid cloud and software defined infrastructure. It highlights key features of the new processors like AVX2 for improved performance, VMCS shadowing for virtualization efficiency, and power optimizations. It argues these technologies help deliver agility, efficiency and insights for software defined datacenters.

1. Intel, en el corazón del Software Defined Datacenter:
La nueva familia de procesadores Intel Xeon E5 v3
y la visión de Intel en relación con la nube híbrida y el
Software Defined Infrastructure
Simón Viñals Larruga
Director de Tecnología, Intel Corporation Iberia
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2. Digital Services
Transforming
Markets
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3. Growth & IT Challenges Drive Need for Cloud Computing
Growth IT Challenges
>3B
connected users by 20151
2X growth
in information every two years2
15B
connected devices by 20153
13X
increase in mobile data traffic
by 20174
Up to 2X or $27B5
in additional data center power
costs by 2015
Improve Agility
Reduce service delivery times,
improve TCO
Greater Efficiencies
Reduce complexity & deploy new
workloads
Gain Better Insights
Via intelligent analytics
Avoid Lock-In
Seek interoperable solutions &
services
• 1 Cisco Global Cloud Index Nov 2011
• 2 IDC Digital Universe Study 2011
• 3 Intel estimate
• 4 Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2012-2017 , Feb 2013
• 5 Datacenter Dynamics Global Datacenter Energy Demand 2012 forecast http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/research/energy-demand-2011-12; projected to 2015 by Intel; Assume $0.10/kWh

4. Digital Service Economy: Data Center Demands
Rapid service provisioning
Efficient, low cost operations
Consistent user experiences
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5. Software Defined
Infrastructure
ORCHESTRATION LAYER
SOFTWARE DEFINED
COMPUTE
SOFTWARE DEFINED
STORAGE
SOFTWARE DEFINED
NETWORK
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Service assurance
Provisioning management
Resource pool

6. Data Center Demands for Software Defined
Infrastructure
Efficient, High Performance
Building Blocks
Common Architecture for
Server, Storage and Network
System Visibility for
Monitoring and Control
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delivering TCO benefits
increase infrastructure flexibility
telemetry data for intelligent orchestration

7. Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 Platform Summary
Intel® Xeon®
processor
E5-2600 v3
QPI
2 Channels
PCIe* 3.0, 40 lanes
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CPU From 4 to 18 cores
TDP: 55 W to 145 W (SVR); 160 W (WS)
Socket Socket-R3
Scalability 2S capability
Memory
4xDDR4 channels
1333, 1600, 1866 (2 DPC), 2133 (1 DPC)
RDIMM, LRDIMM
QPI 2xQPI 1.1 channels
6.4, 8.0, 9.6 GT/s
PCIe*
PCIe* 3.0 (2.5, 5, 8 GT/s)
PCIe Extensions: Dual Cast, Atomics
40xPCIe* 3.0
Intel® C612
Chipset
DMI2 – 4 lanes; Up to 6xUSB3, 8x USB2 ports,
10xSATA3 ports; GbE MAC (+ External PHY)
LAN 40GbE - 1GbE
Firmware Servers: Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS)
Workstations: ME 9.x
Intel® Xeon®
processor
E5-2600 v3
DDR4
LAN
Up to
4x10GbE
Intel® C610
series
chipset
WBG
DDR4
DDR4
DDR4
DDR4
DDR4
DDR4
DDR4
EP = Efficient Performance
Excellent balance of performance and power efficiency

8. Storage
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• Node Manager 3.0
• Cache QoS Monitoring
Product Family Features
• Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 2.0
• PCPS (Per Core P-States)
• DDR4 Memory
• Virtual Machine Control Structure (VMCS) Shadowing
• Data Deduplication
• Intelligent Tiering
• Thin Provisioning
• Data Encryption
• SSDs
Compute
Network
• 10/40 Gb Ethernet Controller
• Network virtualization offloads
• Flow Director
• Network Functions Virtualizations

9. Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 2
Intel®
AVX2
Intel® AVX1
2X Flops: 256-E5-2600 bit wide floating point-vectors
2012 2013 2014
Performance Core
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Half-float support,
Random Number Generator
E5-2600 v2
E5-2600 v3
Since 2001:
128-bit vectors
new
• Floating point Fused Multiply Add (FMA) improves
high performance computing, professional imaging,
feature detection
• 256-bit integer vector instructions benefits math,
codec, image processing and DSP software.
90 UP TO 90%
%
INCREASED
PERFORMANCE
Gen-to-Gen
Source as of June 2014: Intel internal measurements on platform with two E5-2697 v2, HT disabled, Turbo enabled, 8x8GB DDR3-1866, RHEL6.3, MKL 11.0.5, score: 528 GFLOPs. Platform with two E5-2699
v3, HT disabled, Turbo enabled, NUMA & COD mode, 8x16GB DDR4-2133, RHEL 6.4, IC14.0-AVX2, MKL 11.1.1, score: 1012 GFLOPs. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been
optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and
functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases,
including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance

10. Enhance Your Cloud Experience
Improve service quality with Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3
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Network virtualization offloads
Faster data encryption
Cache Monitoring
Platform Telemetry
Steps to the Cloud:
• Virtualization
• Automation
• Orchestration
VMCS Shadowing
Hybrid
Cloud

11. VMCS Shadowing
• Nested Virtualization allows a root VMM to support guest VMMs
• VM Control Structure (VMCS) Shadowing designed to improve efficiency by reducing
virtualization latency
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What is VMCS Shadowing for Nested Virtualization?

12. VMCS Shadowing: How it Reduces VM Exits/Entries
Software-Only VMCS Shadow
VMCS
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True Guest
Guest
VMM
Root VMM
R R R R R W W
True Guest
Guest
VMM
Root VMM
R R R R R W W
VMCS Shadow
y Direct Guest-VMM VMREAD/VMWRITE to a VMCS shadow structure
– Eliminates majority of nesting-induced VM exits/entries
VMCS = VM Control Structure
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13. VM1
Legacy OS
Root VMM
VM0
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VMCS Shadowing:
Increases virtualization isolation & monitoring abilities – “Nested virtualization”
Manage/ Protect
Dev /Test Env.
Support Legacy Apps
VM0
Current OS
Guest VMM
Root VMM
Hardware
Hardware
Current
OS
Legacy VMM
9 Manage VM
9 Monitor for
malicious
activities
VM1
Production
Env.
Root VMM
Hardware
VM0
Production
Env.
VM2
Dev / Test
Env.
Pre-production VMM

14. Cache Monitoring Ensures Quality of Service
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Problem: No visibility into resource usage
by virtual machines
Solution: Consistent service delivery
= no more noisy neighbor!
Prior:
One VM in multi-tenant environment using
too many resources
(aka “the noisy neighbor problem”)
Today with Cache Monitoring:
Visibility into cache resource usage by
virtual machine
VM
3
VM 4
VM
1
VM
2
Cache
Utilization
VM 3
VM 4
VM 1
VM 2
Cache
Utilization

15. Power Efficiency Improvements:
Per Core P-States (PCPS) greatly increases power efficiency by
optimizing workload processing
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Average freq/power by core
Same processor
Same performance
Less Power
PCPS Off
PCPS On
2 4 6 8 10 12
Core
2 4 6 8 10 12
Core
36 %
UP TO 36%
Reduction
In
CPU POWER
Source as of June 2014: Intel internal measurements on Mayan City CRB with one E5-26xx v3 (14C, 2.3GHz, 145W), 8x4GB DDR4-1600, RHEL kernel 3.10.18, PCPS on 110W, PCPS off 70W on an
internal web workload. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and
MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult
other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more
information go to http://www.intel.com/performance *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

16. The DDR4 Difference
2200
1800
1400
1000
128 GB 256 GB 384GB 512 GB 768 GB
1Source as of August 2014 TR#3044 on STREAM (triad): Intel® Server Board S2600CP with two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2, 24x16GB DDR3-1866 @1066MHz DR-RDIMM, score: 58.9
GB/sec. New Configuration: Intel® Server System R2208WTTYS with two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3, 24x16GB DDR4-2133 @ 1600MHz DR-RDIMM, score: 85.2 GB/sec.
2Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect
actual performance. Source as of July 2014: Intel internal estimates on DIMM level power savings of 3 DIMM per channel 4GB DRx4 DDR3L RDIMM vs. 4GB DRx4 DDR4 RDIMM configurations.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are
measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other
information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more
information go to http://www.intel.com/performance *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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32GB LRDIMM ON E5-2600
v3DDR4-2133
32GB LRDIMM ON E5-2600
v2DDR3-1866
System Capacity
DDR3L
DDR3
DDR4
DDR4
Power Standby Current
%
50 %
44 UP TO 44%
UP TO 50%
%
INCREASED
INCREASED
BANDWIDTH
POWER EFFICIENCY
with 3 DPC1
with 3 DPC2

17. Designed to work together
Compute Storage Network
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• Data management and media
management
• Automated tiers and
management
• Massively scalable
Application-driven allocation
of resources that can be
orchestrated
• Orchestrated connectivity
• Automated provisioning
• Automated network
management
Compute, Storage and Network as one solution is the answer

18. Accelerating Business Transformation
The heart of agile, efficient data centers
Up to 2.9x improvement in processor performance
Improved tools for software orchestration
Benefits for server, storage and networks
The Foundation for Software Defined Infrastructure
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems,
components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated
purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance Intel does not control or audit the design or implementation of third party
benchmark data or Web sites referenced in this document. Intel encourages all of its customers to visit the referenced Web sites or others where similar performance benchmark data are reported and confirm whether the
referenced benchmark data are accurate and reflect performance of systems available for purchase. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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