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Intel® Integrated I/O (based on Peripheral
Component Interconnect Express [PCIe] 3.0
standard) delivers up to two times more I/O
over PCIe 2.0 in the previous generation
Intel Xeon processor E7 family.
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Intel® Run Sure Technology
High-availability features in the Intel Xeon
processor E7 v2 family compound the
value of next-generation performance. The
Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family provides
world-class availability and uptime with
more than 40 reliability, availability, and
serviceability (RAS) features within the
new Intel® Run Sure Technology.
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These
include features designed to help ensure
data integrity and keep systems running
reliably over a longer period of time
(resilient-system technologies). Intel Run
Sure also includes technology integrating
the processor, rmware, and software
layers to enable systems to diagnose and
recover from errors that would have been
fatal in previous-generation processors
(resilient-memory technologies).
IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration:
Revolutionary Performance
Scaling up database workloads also means
getting more performance from your
database software. Several advances in
IBM* DB2* with BLU Acceleration provide
impressive improvements over previous
versions of DB2. These include:
• Dynamic in-memory columnar
technology—Keep the most
frequently accessed data in RAM to
streamline query workloads even
when the size of data sets exceed
the size of the memory.
• Actionable compression—Run
queries and evaluate data while
it is compressed. In some cases
this can provide query-processing
rates 10 times greater than using
uncompressed tables.
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• Parallel vector processing—Take
advantage of multi-core and multiple-
data parallelism based on single
instruction, multiple data (SIMD)
instructions to process data in
parallel over different processors.
• Data skipping—Speed queries by
not processing irrelevant data.
Table of Contents
Scale Up Performance with
Intel and IBM .................... 1
Next-Generation Intel
Xeon Processor E7 Family:
Beyond Incremental ............ 1
Scale Memory, Processors,
and Input/Output .............. 1
Intel® Run Sure Technology ..... 2
IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration:
Revolutionary Performance ..... 2
Benchmark Results .............. 2
Take Advantage of Flexibility
and Efciency ................... 3
Speed and Cost Efciency ...... 3
Easy Upgrade .................. 3
Multiple Workloads ............. 3
DB2 and Intel Xeon: Paired
for Performance ................. 4
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