This document showcases the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family and its performance benefits for big data analytics workloads. It provides examples of several software vendors who saw performance improvements of up to 34% on their applications when testing the new Intel Xeon processors. The document also outlines new processor technologies in areas like performance, orchestration and security. Configuration details are provided for the software vendor testing.
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• Cache Monitoring Technology (introduced on Xeon® E5-2600 v3)
• Cache Allocation Technology
• Code and Data Prioritization
• Memory Bandwidth Monitoring
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With software solutions optimized for the latest platform, you can:
Accelerate cloud deployments through a robust portfolio of capabilities in the
software defined infrastructure space, to better manage shared platform resources.
New features such as Intel® RDT can offer higher throughput for higher priority
workloads for better utilization overall.
Catalyze business innovation with cloud-based service and application delivery
models that increase efficiency and lower TCO. Software optimizations for this latest
generation processor can deliver improved user experiences.
Break through the “performance wall” with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4
product family for many High Performance Computing applications.
Stay competitive by enabling the IT organization to be more agile, flexible and
responsive to evolving business needs and to scale on demand.
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Up to
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REAL-TIME INTELLIGENCE…
EVERYWHERE
Leading software vendors are redefining what’s
possible in data-driven industries and research
disciplines. By providing massively-scalable, real-
time analytics, they are helping businesses turn
all their data—from core business data to social
media posts—into instant intelligence. The Intel®
Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family,
combined with other Intel platform ingredients,
can help organizations optimize performance and
value for every server they add to their cluster.
See the following slides for a quick look at the
kinds of performance gains you can expect.
1 – Demonstrated with eMudhra Ltd* proof point, slide 9.
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Enterprise
Database
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2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v3
2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4
Workload: Front and Back End computations
eMudhra Prism improved performance by up to 1.34X
with the 2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4
eMudhra Ltd.*
Prism*
“The Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning-based text
analytics application delivers immense performance potential on the scalable Intel®
architecture, gaining up to 34% performance with the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-
2699 v4 compared to the previous generation processor for even average workload
conditions. Our signature solution will benefit from this performance gain”1
Kaushik Srinivasan, Head – Strategy and Analytics (Prism), eMudhra Ltd.
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www.emudhra.com
Prism is a real-time big data text analytics application. Its text analysis engine uses
NLP and machine learning techniques to identify sentiment, problems, service
requests from text content coming from social media, email and any other
unstructured data sources
The Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 2699 v4 increased cores and larger cache allows more
processing power for better throughput and faster response time. This provides a
more cost-effective solution for cloud deployments
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4 delivers about 14%2 improvement in
performance compared to E5-2697 v3
1 - Testing conducted on ISV* software comparing 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 to 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3. Testing done by ISV. For complete testing configuration details, SEE SLIDE 14. 2 - Estimated increase for 2S Intel® Xeon®
Processor E5-2697 v4 to 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3. 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 complete information visit http://www.intel.com/performance.
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v4 Product Family
Much more data crunching and analytics
with the improved performance
NormalizedPerformance
Up to 34% more
Big Data / Analytics
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2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v2
2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v3
2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4
MarkLogic NoSQL increased performance by up to
2.21X with 2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4
MarkLogic*
NoSQL for the Enterprise
“The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4 boosted query performance compared to
previous generations processors, providing great benefits to query-intensive
workloads, while the Intel® Solid State Drive DC P3700 improved ingestion and
re-indexing performance to amazing levels compared to traditional HDDs,
enabling new transaction speed levels.”1
Caio Milani – Director of Product Management, MarkLogic
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www.marklogic.com
MarkLogic is the only Enterprise NoSQL database, ideally suited for making
heterogeneous data integration simpler and faster and for doing dynamic content
delivery at massive scale.
The combination of Intel® SSD DC P3700 and the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2699
v4 reduced the data ingestion time, enabled faster re-indexing and delivered
significantly higher number of transactions per second, compared to previous
generations (see the chart).
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4 delivers about 13%2 improvement in query
performance compared to E5-2697 v3.
Enterprise Database
1 - Testing conducted on MarkLogic software comparing 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 to 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 and 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3. Testing by MarkLogic. For complete testing configuration details, SEE SLIDE 14.
2 – MarkLogic estimated increase for 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 to 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3. 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 complete information visit http://www.intel.com/performance.
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v4 Product Family
Service more customers concurrently – deliver a better
user experience! Workload: MarkLogic 8.0-3 CPOx query benchmark on a 3 node
system.
NormalizedPerformance
E5-2697 v4
est. ~ 1.13X
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2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v3
2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4
Aerospike NoSQL Database increased
transactions/second by up to 1.29X with the 2S Intel®
Xeon® processor E5-2699 v41
Aerospike*
Flash optimized In-Memory NoSQL Database
“Aerospike* is the database of choice for operational, real-time systems across many
industries. The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4 combined with the Intel® Ethernet
Controller X540-AT2 provides our customers a fast, flexible foundation for meeting the
ever-growing data demands of Internet applications. Consequently, businesses can
grow their database solution on-demand, while enjoying mission-critical reliability and
uptime.”
Brian Bulkowski - Co-Founder & CTO, Aerospike
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www.aerospike.com
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2699 v4 allows Aerospike* to deliver up to 2.9 million
transactions per second on a single server.
Increased memory speed reduces communications overhead: 44 cores per two-
socket server provides application scalability; Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology
and Intel® Turbo Boost Technology provide much higher price performance.
10 Gb Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapters optimize latency and throughput
to prevent network bottlenecks and such that the server can operate at full capacity.
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4 delivers about 14%2 more transactions per
second compared to E5-2697 v3.
Big Data / Analytics
Up to 29% more
1 - Testing conducted on ISV* software comparing 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 to 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3. Testing done by Intel. For complete testing configuration details, SEE SLIDE 14. 2 – Aerospike estimated increase for 2S Intel®
Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 to 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3. 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 complete information visit http://www.intel.com/performance.
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v4 Product Family
A unique combination of speed, scale & reliability to meet
increasing data demands! Workload: Transactions per second (TPS).
NormalizedPerformance
Intel® Xeon® + 10GbE adapter
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2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v3
2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4
Couchbase increased performance by up to 1.23x
with the 2S Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4
Couchbase*
NoSQL document-oriented database
“Using the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4, Couchbase was able to see up to a 23%
increase in real-time big data processing performance over the previous generation
processor. This is an amazing leap for mission critical systems, enabling our customers
to work with massive operational data sets in a much more efficient way and to achieve
dramatically greater output and value from their hardware resources.”
Cihan Biyikoglu – Director of Product Management, Couchbase
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www.couchbase.com
The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v4 allows Couchbase to insert 100 million records at the
rate of 4.65 million inserts/second
Couchbase is architected to consolidate multiple layers of functionality delivering the
simplicity, speed and performance of a key value database, the flexibility of a document
database, the ultra-low latency of a cache, and end-to-end mobile support with on-device
storage and synchronization
Increased memory speed reduces communications overhead; Intel® Hyper-Threading
Technology and Intel® Turbo Boost Technology facilitate additional performance
improvements
Sub-millisecond response times to meet higher performance SLA requirements
Big Data / Analytics
Up to 23%
faster
1 - Testing conducted on ISV* software comparing 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 to 2S Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3. Testing done by Intel. For complete testing configuration details, SEE SLIDE 14.
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 complete information visit http://www.intel.com/performance.
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v4 Family
Better efficiency, and processing more data while preserving
performance creates a better user experience. Workload: Couchbase indexing 100 million records
NormalizedPerformance
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ProofpointConfigurationDetails:
eMudhra Prism: Social media data sentiment analysis workload. Testing by Intel, 2/23/2016
BASELINE: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3 on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 64 GB Total Memory, 8 slots / 8 GB / 2133 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM, 1TB 2.5" SATA HDD 6GB/s, HT and
turbo on, on CentOS*. Data Source: Request Number: 1974
NEW: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 64 GB Total Memory, 8 slots / 8 GB / 2133 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM, 1TB 2.5" SATA HDD 6GB/s, HT and
turbo on, on CentOS*. Data Source: Request Number: 1974
MarkLogic* NoSQL Big Data Management: MarkLogic 8.0-3 CPOx query benchmark. Testing done by MarkLogic, 2/16/2016
BASELINE: 3-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 (30M Cache, 2.70 GHz) on Romley-EP with 128 GB Total Memory, 16 slots / 8 GB / 1600 MT/s / DDR3 RDIMM, 1 Intel® P3700 SSD
800GB, HT and turbo on, Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 6.7 kernel 2.6.32-573 using MarkLogic 8-0-3.2. Data Source: Request Number: 2033
NEXT GEN: 3-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3 (35M Cache, 2.60 GHz) on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 128 GB Total Memory, 16 slots / 8 GB / 1866 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM, 1 Intel®
P3700 SSD 800GB, HT and turbo on, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 6.7 kernel 2.6.32-573 using MarkLogic 8-0-3.2. Data Source: Request Number: 2033
NEW: 3-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 (55M Cache, 2.20 GHz) on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 128 GB Total Memory, 16 slots / 8 GB / 2133 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM, 1 Intel® P3700
SSD 800GB, HT and turbo on, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 6.7 kernel 2.6.32-573 using MarkLogic 8-0-3.2. Data Source: Request Number: 2033
Aerospike* High-Speed Database: Transactions per second workload. Testing done by Intel, 2/16/2016
BASELINE: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3 (35M Cache, 2.60 GHz) on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 128 GB Total Memory, 8 slots / 8 GB / 1866 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM, 2 x Intel®
X540-AT2, HT and turbo on, on CentOS 6.7, kernel version 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 using Aerospike server community 3.6.4-el6. Data Source: Request Number: 2031
NEW: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 (55M Cache, 2.20 GHz) on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 128 GB Total Memory, 16 slots / 8 GB / 2133 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM / running at
1866 MT/s, 2 x Intel® X540-AT2, HT and turbo on, on CentOS 6.7, kernel version 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 using Aerospike server community edition 3.6.4-el6. Data Source: Request Number:
2031
Couchbase*: NoSQL document-oriented database indexing 100 million records. Testing by Intel,
BASELINE: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3 on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 64 GB Total Memory, 8 slots / 8 GB / 2133 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM, HT and turbo on, on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux* 6.4 kernel 2.6.32-358. Data Source: Request Number: 2028
NEW: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 128 GB Total Memory, 4 slots / 32 GB / 2133 MT/s / DDR4 RDIMM, HT and turbo on, on CentOS* using
Couchbase Server. Data Source: Request Number: 2028
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