Mentor Graphics Calibre* EDA: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4800-HPC

Intel Xeon

Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

Ideal for high performance computing (HPC) applications that rely on high memory capacity thanks to up to 512GB per socket with 16 slots utilizing 32GB memory modules delivering up to 102 Gb/s memory bandwidth on a 4-socket server.

Computer-aided engineering

    Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Mentor Graphics Calibre* nmDRC tool

Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Mentor Graphics Calibre* nmDRC tool

As the complexity and larger designs become the industry norm, total cycle time is increasing due to higher error counts and more verification iterations. The DRC tools can benefit substantially from the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 platforms high thread count and large memory capacity enabling jobs to run in parallel substantially improving fidelity and throughput.

Benchmark description for Mentor Graphics Calibre* nmDRC tool

Calibre* nmDRC is a highly scalable tool that addresses the physical verfication challenges of nanometer designs enabling engineers to quickly debug with Design Rule Check (DRC) tests.

Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Mentor Graphics Calibre* nmDRC tool

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Configuration details Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

As of April 2011

Electronic Design Analysis (EDA) using Mentor Graphics Calibre* nmDRC tool

Comparison based on 4-socket generational platforms. Source: Testing completed on-site by Intel labs and reviewed/approved by Mentor Graphics. The workload measures Design Rule Check verification and analysis time.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor 7140M based platform details

Intel® E8501 chipset server system with four Intel Xeon processor 7140M (16M cache, 3.40GHz, 800MHz FSB), 1 job x 16 threads, 32GB memory, 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS RAID0, SUSE* Enterprise LINUX 10 SP3 x86_64.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor X7350 based platform details

Intel® 7300 chipset server system with four Intel Xeon processor X7350 (8M cache, 2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB), 2 job x 8 threads, 64GB memory, 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS RAID0, SUSE* Enterprise LINUX 10 SP3 x86_64.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor X7460 based platform details

Intel® 7300 chipset server system with four Intel Xeon processor X7460 (16M cache, 2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB), 3 job x 8 threads, 128GB memory, 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS RAID0, SUSE* Enterprise LINUX 10 SP3 x86_64.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details

Intel® 7500 chipset server system with four Intel Xeon processor X7560 (24M cache, 2.26GHz, 6.4GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 4 job x 16 threads, 256GB (64x 4GB DDR3-1066 registered ECC), 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS RAID0, SUSE* Enterprise LINUX 10 SP3 x86_64.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 based platform details

Intel® 7500 chipset server system with four Intel Xeon processor E7-4870 (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.4GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 5 job x 16 threads, 256GB (64x 4GB DDR3-1066 registered ECC), 2x 146GB 10K rpm SAS RAID0, SUSE* Enterprise LINUX 10 SP3 x86_64

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