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Key features
The x3550 M4 is a cost- and density-balanced 1U, 2-socket business-critical server, offering improved
performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management
capability. The powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud
deployments.
Combining balanced performance and flexibility, the x3550 M4 is a great choice for small and medium
businesses and up to the large enterprise. It can provide outstanding uptime to keep business-critical
applications and cloud deployments running safely. Ease-of-use and comprehensive systems
management tools make it easy to deploy. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improves your
business environment and helps save operational costs.
Scalability and performance
The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:
The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family improves productivity by offering superior system
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performance with 8-core processors and up to 2.9 GHz core speeds, up to 20 MB of L3 cache, and up
to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links.
Up to two processors, 16 cores, and 32 threads maximize the concurrent execution of multithreaded
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applications.
Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows CPU cores
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to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor TDP.
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by enabling
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simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating
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system vendors to better utilize the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVT) significantly improve floating point performance for
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compute-intensive technical and scientific applications compared to Intel Xeon 5600 series
processors.
The 24 Load Reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs) of 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC memory provide speed, high
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availability, and a memory capacity of up to 768 GB (running at 1066 MHz).
The theoretical maximum memory bandwidth of the Intel Xeon processor E5 family is 51.6 GB/s,
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which is 60% more than in the previous generation of Intel Xeon processors.
The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of or along with traditional spinning drives (HDDs) can
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significantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per
second (IOPS) than a typical HDD.
The server has four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports and two optional 10 Gb Ethernet ports with
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mezzanine cards that do not consume a PICe slot.
The server offers PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion capabilities that improve the theoretical maximum
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bandwidth by 60% (8 GT/s per link) compared to the previous generation of PCI Express 2.0.
With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon
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processor E5 family. This helps to dramatically reduce I/O latency and increase overall system
performance.
Support for NVIDIA Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) to maximize computing power
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