Study Notes

Intel 5100: San Clemente

Intel 5400: Harpetown

Intel 5200: Wolfdale-DP

New Super servers and workstations based on the Intel 5100 chipset, with regular DDR2 memory instead of FBD memory, offer superior performance-per-watt and cost-to-performance ratios, because DDR2 memory costs about $10 less per module compared to FBD and generate less heat.

Designed for cost-effective 1U/2U/4U and tower systems, the new X7DCL-i server board supports up to 32GB of DDR2 memory, six expansion slots including three high-performance PCI-Express slots, and six SATA2 ports with RAID5 in a standard ATX form factor. For onboard SAS support, SuperMicro also offer the X7DCL-3, which supports SuperMicro also offer the X7DCL-3, which supports eight SAS ports with RAID5 optional.

IO Shield

Memory manufactories: Apacer, ATP Electronices, Hynix, Micron, Smart Modules, Staktek(Entorian)

Famous researching engine: Naver in Korea, Yandex in Russia

VMDq: Virtual Machine Device Queues is another breakthrough technology from Intel that helps offload network I/O data, processing from the VM monitor software to network silicon.

Receiving Packets: As data packets arrive at the network adapter, a layer 2 classifier/sorter in the network control sorts and determines which VM each packet is destined for based on MAC addresses and VLAN tags, then places the packet in a receive queue assigned to that VM. The hypervisor’s switch merely routes the packets to the respective VM instead of performing the heavy lifting work of sort data, Thus, VMDq, improves platform efficient for handle receives side network I/O and increase CPU utilization for application processing.

EIDE: Enhanced IDE, the latest ATA version is 8, which is also in processing.

48bit address, equals 144 PeraBytes.