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Deliver the powerful performance per dollar you need on Intel® technology. Critical data-heavy workloads such as database, high performance computing (HPC), and web perform better at a lower total cost of ownership on Intel® architecture-based clouds.1 2 3 4
4.15x Higher Performance
Up to 4.15x higher performance/$ on High Performance LINPACK* and LAMMPS*.2
1.74x Better Performance
Better performance/$ on Server-Side Java and 1.74x better performance /$ on WordPress PHP/HHVM.3
2.25x Higher Performance
Up to 2.25x higher performance/$ for memory bandwidth applications.4
Success Demands Differentiation and Agility
Successful CSPs are staying ahead of the technology curve, not chasing it. See how.
Security Enhanced Cloud Services
Win more business by meeting customers' growing needs for increased security with optimized infrastructure.
Data Center Optimization for CSPs
Maximize the efficiency, performance, and TCO of your cloud services business with the newest generation of Intel® technologies.
Grow Your Business with Differentiated Services
Boost profits, unlock fresh revenue streams and expand into new markets with next generation cloud services.
Introducing the New Second Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Platform
Harness More Power
Deliver the precise needs of your cloud services and accelerate time-to-value with second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
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Boost Performance
Meet the precise needs of your customers, no matter what your business with optimized performance and reliability across your critical cloud services workloads.
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Deliver Reliability
Minimize downtime with the new Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory for breakthrough performance to deliver better restart times and fast data caching.
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Twitter Boosts Hadoop* Performance
Learn how Intel and Twitter collaborated to enhance the performance of Twitter's Hadoop clusters by optimizing storage. Removing storage bottlenecks allowed Twitter to improve run times and reduce its data center footprint, which resulted in a lower TCO.
Cloud Service Provider Success Stories
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Quickly Transition to Container-Based Cloud Applications
Improve both portability and data center resource utilization by transitioning from hypervisor-hosted to distributed, container-based application development. It helps overcome complexity, security, and scalability challenges.
Packet Provides Infrastructure for Developers
Discover how Packet is enabling developers to access a wide range of Intel® hardware for developing new software.
PostNL Embraces Its Cloud-Powered Future
PostNL boldly decided to move their entire infrastructures to the cloud. Their migration offers CSPs a great example of new cloud business models for the enterprise.
Product and Performance Information
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.
Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.
Intel® technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation.
Your costs and results may vary.
Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy.
Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.
Workload: LAMMPS*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Materials Science – LAMMPS (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 137.5 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 55.8 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.
Changes for AMD to support AVX2 (AMD only supports AVX2, so these changes were necessary):
sed -i 's/-xHost/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi
sed -i 's/-qopt-zmm-usage=high/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi
Workload: High-performance Linpack*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Linpack (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2 (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-benchmarks-suite Directory: benchmarks_2018.3.222/linux/mkl/benchmarks/mp_linpack/bin_intel/intel64), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX512, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=24, 2 MPI processes, Score 3152 GB/s, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2, (HPL Source: http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/hpl-2.2.tar.gz; Version 2.2; icc (ICC) 18.0.2 20180210 used to compile and link to BLIS library version 0.4.0; https://github.com/flame/blis; Addt’l Compiler flags: -O3 -funroll-loops -W -Wall –qopenmp; make arch=zen OMP_NUM_THREADS=8; 6 MPI processes.), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX2, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=8, 6 MPI processes, Score 677.7 GB/s, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.
Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.
Workload: Server Side Java* 1 JVM
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.74X (higher is better)
Server Side Java (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 101767 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 52068 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
Workload: Wordpress* PHP/HHVM*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.75X (higher is better)
Web Front End Wordpress (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 3626.11 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 1838.48 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5.4xlarge (Intel) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX512, -qopt-zmm-usage=high, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728 -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 –qopenmp, -qoptstreaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY: proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread, explicit, Score 81216.7 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
AWS M5a.4xlarge (AMD) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX2, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728, -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 -qopenmp -qopt-streaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY : proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread,explicit, Score 32154.4 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
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AWS pricing as of 12th January 2019 Standard 1-Year term Reserved Instance Pricing (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/) On Demand Linux/Unix Usage Pricing per hour (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/).