Intel® Processors

Itanium®-based servers deliver the scalable performance, reliability, and headroom for your most compute-intensive workloads, including direct replacement for RISC and mainframe platforms. Because Itanium processors are available in commercial off-the-shelf hardware from a rich ecosystem of system and solution providers, they can quickly meet mission-critical needs. Itanium-based servers are incredibly scalable, allowing configuration in systems of as many as 512 processors and a full petabyte (1024TB) of RAM. Together with full support for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, that capacity provides unmatched flexibility in tailoring systems to your enterprise needs. Product information Explore the following resources for more in-depth information about the Intel Itanium processor 9000 sequence: Intel® Itanium® processor 9100 series product brief (PDF 687KB) Intel® Itanium® processor demo Performance benchmarks		Global support Learn how Itanium®-based solutions are changing the way enterprises do business. Itanium Solutions › Learn about and celebrate groundbreaking people and their work—from all areas of industry and research—who have utilized Intel® Itanium®-based solutions. Innovation Awards › Related papers Learn how Intel® Itanium®-based systems are providing a range of benefits to business customers. Mainframe reliability at mainstream prices › (PDF 187KB) Transforming business-critical infrastructure › (PDF 592KB) Intel® Itanium® processor product brief › (PDF 687KB)

Features and benefits
Dual-core processing, EPIC architecture, and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology∇	Supports massive, multi-level parallelism for today's data-intensive workloads Provides headroom for fast access to information and real-time decision making Delivers fast responses to complex computations
Support for up to 512 processors and one petabyte (1024TB) RAM	Provides scalable performance for enterprise flexibility Gives IT the ability to increase processor and memory capacity as needed, in an open-ended framework
Up to 24MB of low-latency L3 cache	Prevents idle processing cycles with a high-bandwidth data supply to the execution cores Increases the efficiency of the memory subsystem
Intel® Cache Safe Technology	Automatically recovers cache after cache errors Delivers mainframe-class availability
Enhanced machine check architecture	Automatically detects, logs, and corrects errors Provides maximum system uptime
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)±	Reduces virtualization complexity and increases performance Increases operating system compatibility
Demand-based switching	Dynamically reduced energy consumption during typical CPU utilization (in conjunction with enabled OS)
Core level lock-step	Enables one processor core to mirror the operations of the other