Processor 9500 Series - Intel BX80569Q9550 - Core 2 Quad 2.83 GHz Processor Datasheet

Introduction
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Intel Itanium
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Intel Itanium Processor Eight-Core 2.53 GHz with 32 MB LLC Cache 9560
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Intel Itanium Processor Four-Core 2.40 GHz with 32 MB LLC Cache 9550
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Intel Itanium Processor Eight-Core 2.13 GHz with 24 MB LLC Cache 9540
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Intel Itanium Processor Four-Core 1.73 GHz with 20 MB LLC Cache 9520
Product Features
Eight Core
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— Eight complete 64-bit processing cores on one
processor, with two threads per core.
— Each core provides in-order issue and execution
of up to twelve instructions per cycle.
— Includes dynamic domain partitioning and static
hard partitioning.
Advanced EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction
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Computing) Architecture 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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Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
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— Dual Domain Multithreading with independent
front end and back end thread domains providing
hardware support for 2 threads per core.
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— Support for Intel
Instructions.
Wide, parallel hardware based on Intel
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architecture for high performance:
— Integrated on-die LLC cache of up to 32MB;
cache hints for FLC, MLC, and LLC caches for
reduced memory latency.
— 160 general and 128 floating-point registers
supporting register rotation.
— Register stack engine for effective management
of processor resources.
— Support for predication and speculation.
Extensive RAS features for business-critical
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applications, for example:
— Machine check architecture with extensive ECC
and parity protection with firmware first error
handling.
— End-to-end error detection.
— On-chip thermal management and power
management.
— Built-in processor information ROM (PIROM).
— Built-in programmable EEPROM.
— Hot Plug Socket.
— Hot-add and hot removal support.
— Double Device Data Correction (DDDC) for x4
DRAMs, plus correction support of a single bit
error.
— Single Device Data Correction (SDDC) for x8 and
x4 DRAMs, plus correction of a single bit error.
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— Intel QuickPath Interconnect Dynamic Link
Width Reduction.
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— Intel QuickPath Interconnect Clock Fail-Safe
Feature.
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— Intel QuickPath Interconnect Hot-Add and
Removal.
— Memory DIMM and Rank Sparing, Memory
Scrubbing, Memory Mirroring, and Memory
Migration.
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Intel Itanium Processor 9300 Series and 9500 Series Datasheet
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Processor 9500 Series

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Itanium Processor New-
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Itanium
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— Intel Turbo Boost Technology, featuring
sustained boost.
— Architected firmware stack, including PAL and
SAL support.
— Directory-based and source-based coherency
protocol.
— Intel QPI poisoning, viral containment and
cleanup.
Two On-die Memory Controllers
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— Each memory controller supports two Intel
Scalable Memory Interconnects that operate in
lockstep.
— Support for one Scalable Memory Buffer per Intel
Scalable Memory Interconnect; four Scalable
Memory Buffers per processor.
— High memory bandwidth, thus improved
performance.
— 4.8 GT/s for the Intel
Buffer.
— 6.4 GT/s for the Intel
Buffer.
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Intel Instruction Replay Technology to replay core
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pipeline for pipeline management and core RAS.
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Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel
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Intel 64 or Itanium
Virtualization Support Extensions for Intel
Virtualization Technology.
— Reduce virtualization complexity.
— Improve virtualization performance via hardware
optimization.
— Increase operating system compatibility.
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Intel Cache Safe Technology ensure mainframe-
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caliber availability.
— Minimize LLC cache errors.
— Disable cache entries that have become hard
errors.
— Directory Cache covers 33% more cache lines.
— Improve availability.
High bandwidth Intel
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multiprocessor scalability:
— 4 full and 2 half width Intel QPI Links
— 6.4GT/s transfer rate with aggregate data
bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
— Systems are easily scaled without sacrificing
performance.
Features to support flexible platform environments:
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— Fully compatible with binaries for the Intel
Itanium processor family with Instruction level
advancements.
— LGA1248 Socket Level compatible with the Intel
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Itanium Processor 9300 Series.
— Bi-endian support.
— Processor abstraction layer eliminates processor
dependencies.
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7500 Scalable Memory
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7510 Scalable Memory
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VT) for
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architecture (Intel Vt-i) 3 -
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QuickPath Interconnect for
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