Intel Scalable Processors Xeon Skylake-SP (Purley) Buyers Guide

Intel Purley platform, Skylake-SP, Xeon “Scalable” processors (Platinum, Gold, Sliver, Bronze) are here. All 58 of them! Hopefully this post will help you to decide which of these (excellent) processors may be of use for your applications. I trim the list do to just a few of my favorites and break them down by use-case.

Intel Xeon E5 v3 Haswell-EP Buyers Guide

The new Xeon E5 v3 Haswell processors are here, all 30+ of them! There is a bewildering variety of clock speeds, core counts, and power usage. There are processors in the new v3 familly ranging from the single socket E5-1620v3 with 4 cores at 3.5 GHz to the dual socket E5-2699v3 with 18 cores at 2.3GHz. How do you make a choice for a new system?!

How do these new processors perform when you programs parallel scaling is less than perfect?