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As Beijing plays host to the biggest international sports event of the year, The Games of the XXIX Olympiad, fans will get all the latest news and scores from the official Games website-enabled with the latest Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor technology.
To handle the monumental effort of hosting Internet content for the Games, official website sponsor Sohu.com needs to use the latest computing technology to form an IT infrastructure that can receive, store, and host massive volumes of data. The answer is servers based on the next-generation Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series.
"Based on 45nm manufacturing processes, the latest Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series allows Sohu.com to effectively cope with the massive website traffic requirements typically associated with the Olympic Games," explains Wang Xiaochuan, senior vice president of Sohu.com, Inc. "With the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor technology deployment up and running online, Sohu.com has since seen our search engine and database efficiency improve by up to three times.
