Quick live blog of the new server oriented Intel Atom S1200 series launch event. The Intel Atom Centerton was announced this summer and is now launched.
Key Points from the presentation:
6w SoC for datacenters
>20 Atom Design wins
Micro server storage and communications
Consistency in the data center lowers cost of maintenance and that is something the Intel Atom S1200 is concentrated on.
Amazon only has 7 unique instances in the data center including a Xeon E5 deployment that was #42 on the SC 500 launch.
Example design wins:
Dedicated web hosting
L2 network switching
Low-end storage
Microserver Timeline
Intel Xeon 2009 Concept -> 2010 2 Commercial systems -> 2011 5 Commercial Systems -> 2012 6 Commercial systems
Atom launched in the 2010-2011 timeline, first dedicated product (Atom S1200 line) today.
Intel Atom S1200 Details
6w TDP
2 Core + Hyper Threading
ECC Memory
Intel Virtualization Technology
High-density 1000+ nodes per rack
Estimated Intel CPU Revenue per rack
Intel Xeon E3 low power: $32.9K USD 2x Web transactions / rack
Intel Atom S1200 $35.8K USD - 5x more nodes/ rack
*Based on 560 atom cores per rack and ~110 Intel Xeon cores/ rack
Most suitable for light Scale-Out applications
Simple content delivery
Large distributed memory caching
Big-data simple search systems
MapReduce applications
Performance per watt:
Compute intensive performance per watt favors an Intel Xeon E3-1265L by about 2x
Light Scale-Out Applications favor the Intel Atom S1200 2.0ghz
Hyper scale update
Next generation HP Moonshot Gemini product Q1 2013.
Process
Next gen will be 22nm, following will be 14nm.
Facebook
140+ billion friend connections
220+ billion photos
300+ million photos added per day
Intel Xeon processors are used to scale photos
Intel Atom S1200 processors could be used for the storage tier
4.5 billion likes, posts, comments and photos added per day
Cost
As low as $54 in 1000 quantity
Avoton will integrate network fabric into SoC at 22nm.
14nm product is that there will be an "exciting" and "very cool" announcement
Looking forward to a 1 year new product release cadence
Also posted a quick Intel Atom S1200 Centerton for servers piece while at the launch event.
Key Points from the presentation:
6w SoC for datacenters
>20 Atom Design wins
Micro server storage and communications
Consistency in the data center lowers cost of maintenance and that is something the Intel Atom S1200 is concentrated on.
Amazon only has 7 unique instances in the data center including a Xeon E5 deployment that was #42 on the SC 500 launch.
Example design wins:
Dedicated web hosting
L2 network switching
Low-end storage
Microserver Timeline
Intel Xeon 2009 Concept -> 2010 2 Commercial systems -> 2011 5 Commercial Systems -> 2012 6 Commercial systems
Atom launched in the 2010-2011 timeline, first dedicated product (Atom S1200 line) today.
Intel Atom S1200 Details
6w TDP
2 Core + Hyper Threading
ECC Memory
Intel Virtualization Technology
High-density 1000+ nodes per rack
Estimated Intel CPU Revenue per rack
Intel Xeon E3 low power: $32.9K USD 2x Web transactions / rack
Intel Atom S1200 $35.8K USD - 5x more nodes/ rack
*Based on 560 atom cores per rack and ~110 Intel Xeon cores/ rack
Most suitable for light Scale-Out applications
Simple content delivery
Large distributed memory caching
Big-data simple search systems
MapReduce applications
Performance per watt:
Compute intensive performance per watt favors an Intel Xeon E3-1265L by about 2x
Light Scale-Out Applications favor the Intel Atom S1200 2.0ghz
Hyper scale update
Next generation HP Moonshot Gemini product Q1 2013.
Process
Next gen will be 22nm, following will be 14nm.
140+ billion friend connections
220+ billion photos
300+ million photos added per day
Intel Xeon processors are used to scale photos
Intel Atom S1200 processors could be used for the storage tier
4.5 billion likes, posts, comments and photos added per day
Cost
As low as $54 in 1000 quantity
Avoton will integrate network fabric into SoC at 22nm.
14nm product is that there will be an "exciting" and "very cool" announcement
Looking forward to a 1 year new product release cadence
Also posted a quick Intel Atom S1200 Centerton for servers piece while at the launch event.