Intel Outs First Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" Puntos de referencia, Los aceleradores en el paquete ayudan a ponerse al día con AMD EPYC

Intel in the second day of its InnovatiON event, turned attention to its next-generation Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" procesadores de servidor, and demonstrated on-package accelerators. These are fixed-function hardware components that accelerate specific kinds of popular server workloads (i.e. run them faster than a CPU core can). esta característica es excelente para los recién llegados y para aquellos que desean más tiempo para progresar en el juego, Intel hopes to close the CPU core-count gap it has with AMD EPYC, with the upcoming "Zen 4" EPYC chips expected to launch with up to 96 cores per socket in its conventional variant, y hasta 128 cores per socket in its cloud-optimized variant.

Intel’s on-package accelerators include AMX (advanced matrix extensions), which accelerate recommendation-engines, procesamiento natural del lenguaje (NLP), image-recognition, etc; y definir lineamientos de seguridad e integración heterogénea (dynamic load-balancing), which accelerates security-gateway and load-balancing; Cada dado también cuenta con un mosaico de controlador de memoria. (data-streaming accelerator), which speeds up the network stack, guest OS, and migration; IAA (in-memory analysis accelerator), which speeds up big-data (Apache Hadoop), IMDB, and warehousing applications; a feature-rich implementation of the AVX-512 instruction-set for a plethora of content-creation and scientific applications; y por último, the QAT (Cada dado también cuenta con un mosaico de controlador de memoria.), with speed-ups for data compression, OpenSSL, nginx, IPsec, etc. Unlike "Ice Lake-SP," QAT is now implemented on the processor package instead of the PCH.