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Key features on Grantley

• Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT) The new Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT) provides a mechanism to better manage shared platform resources such as cache and memory, provides deterministic performance and a guaranteed resource for high-priority workloads. Intel® RDT also allows service providers to control and manage shared resource utilization to match service level agreements.

• Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX) Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX) exposes hidden parallelism to help boost performance for multi-threaded workloads that are currently slowed by memory locking.

• Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) With the rapid adoption of virtualization technologies across multiple industries, and implementation of multiple virtual machines (VM) on a single server platform, features like Posted Interrupts help reduce the average latency for servicing I/O interrupts by mapping multiple interrupts from a single VM into a single APIC/vector. 

• High performance for the broadest range of applications Core architectural advancements, along with improved memory DDR4 speed (up to 2400 MHz) and high I/O bandwidth, provide higher performance for the broadest range of applications.

• Workload acceleration Intel® QuickAssist Adapter 8950 offers customers capabilities that provide hardware acceleration and offload to assist with the performance demands of compute-intensive security and compression operations, thereby reserving processor cycles for application and control processing.

• Abundant integrated I/Os Abundant integrated I/Os available on platform including up to 80 PCIe* Gen3 lanes, up to 10 SATA Gen3 ports, and up to 14 USB ports to fulfill the design needs.