Course Overview
In this course, Srihari Makineni, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, discusses the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and the three CPU SKUs that are optimized for NFV workloads. He reviews the motivation for creating these SKUs, their benefits and how to enable the SKUs and use their features. He details how to enable Intel® Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency (Intel® SST-BF), its impact on the platform and how the platform thermals change as a result of using the P1 frequency and the Intel SST-BF feature. He then walks through the steps required to enable Intel SST-BF as well as how to validate the configuration.
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Chapter Overview
In this chapter, Srihari Makineni, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, introduces 5218N, 6230N and 6252N, the three CPU SKUs that are optimized for network functions virtualization (NFV) workloads. He explains the key motivation behind creating these NFV SKUs and their key features. He then goes into the benefits of these SKUs including improvements in energy efficiency while also improving performance, and he shares the hardware configurations of the three systems that were used for data collection.