Intel 9150M NE80567KF028015 User Manual

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The Intel

®

 Itanium

®

 processor 9300 series delivers new levels of flexibility, reliability, performance, 

and cost-effective scalability for your most data-intensive business and technical applications. With 

double the number of cores of previous Intel Itanium processors, the Intel Itanium processor 9300 

series provides more reasons than ever to migrate your business-critical applications off RISC and 

mainframe systems and onto cost-effective Intel architecture servers. The Intel Itanium processor 

9300 series provides 24 megabytes L3 cache, Hyper-Threading Technology for increased 

performance, Intel

®

 Virtualization Technology for improved virtualization, Intel

®

 Cache Safe 

Technology for increased availability.

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Quad Core

— Four complete 64-bit processing cores on one 

processor.

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EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) 

Technology for current and future requirements of 

high-end enterprise and technical workloads

— Provide a variety of advanced 

implementations of parallelism, predication, 

and speculation, resulting in superior 

Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP). 

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Hyper-Threading Technology

— Two times the number of OS threads per 

core.

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Wide, parallel hardware based on Intel

®

 Itanium

®

 

architecture for high performance:

— Integrated on-die L3 cache of up to 24MB; 

cache hints for L1, L2, and L3 caches for 

reduced memory latency.

— 128 general and 128 floating-point registers 

supporting register rotation.

— Register stack engine for effective 

management of processor resources.

— Support for predication and speculation.

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Extensive RAS features for business-critical 

applications, for example:

— Machine check architecture with extensive 

ECC and parity protection.

— On-chip thermal management.

— Built-in processor information ROM (PIROM).

— Built-in  programmable  EEPROM.

— Hot  Plug  Socket

— Double Device Data Correction (DDDC) for x4 

DRAMs, plus correction of a single bit error.

— Single Device Data Correction (SDDC) for x8 

DRAMs, plus correction of a single bit error.

— Intel

®

 QuickPath Interconnect Dynamic Link 

Width Reduction

— Intel

®

 QuickPath Interconnect Clock Fail-Safe 

Feature

— Intel

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 QuickPath Interconnect Hot Add and 

Removal

— DIMM Sparing, Memory Scrubbing, Memory 

Mirroring, and Memory Migration



On-die Memory Controller

— high memory bandwidth, thus improve 

performance

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Intel

®

 Virtualization Technology for virtualization for 

data-intensive applications. 

— Reduce virtualization complexity.

— Improve virtualization performance.

— Increase operating system compatibility. 

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Intel

®

 Cache Safe Technology ensure mainframe-

caliber availability. 

— Minimize L3 cache errors.

— Improve availability.

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High bandwidth Intel

®

 QuickPath Interconnect for 

multiprocessor scalability:

— 4 full and 2 half width Intel QPI Links

— 4.8GT/s transfer rate.

— Systems are easily scaled without sacrificing 

performance.

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Features to support flexible platform environments:

— IA-32 Execution Layer supports IA-32 

application binaries.

— Bi-endian support.

— Processor abstraction layer eliminates 

processor dependencies.