VM-Aware » CPU http://www.vm-aware.com Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation! Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:28:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 1 Intel Nehalem – What’s The Big Idea? http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/06/intel-nehalem-whats-the-big-idea/ http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/06/intel-nehalem-whats-the-big-idea/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:55:31 +0000 Paul Shannon http://www.vm-aware.com/?p=125 I was looking for an article that gave me a breakdown of the technology of the Nehalem. I didn’t want a techno deep-dive, but what I did want can be found here.

It shows that technologically the Nehalem effectively brings back HyperThreading by allow dual execution of threads simultaneously. Everyone knows that this doesn’t equal twice the power, but it can mean a significantly more efficient chip.

Below is a graph of the speed enhancements of a 2x workload on the Nehalem chip:

All looks rather tasty over the next few months.

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