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Are E5 Skylakes available exclusively to Google? Can't find E5 v5 on Intel's site: http://ark.intel.com/#@Processors http://ark.intel.com/#@Processors.

• codinghorror 10y ago
  Purley is the big Skylake based server platform chipset reset for Xeon E5 and higher so Google must have early access to it. Skylake Xeon E3 is on the current older server chipsets.. Purley is supposed to be a significant improvement.
  • ppoint 10y ago
    Thanks!
  • boulos 10y ago
    We announced with Intel back in November that we would be getting early access to Skylake [1]. Today's announcement is that we're ready to let more people in the door. [1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/power-up-your-Google-Compute-Engine-VMs-with-Intels-next-generation-Custom-Cloud-Xeon-Processor.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/power-up-your-G...
  • bonzini 10y ago
    E3 is not a server SKU, it's meant for workstations and it's more similar to i7 than E5. It lacks various features including ECC RAM which, I suppose, is a no-starter for cloud hosting. Also some virtualization capabilities are missing, notably accelerated interrupt injection (APICv+posted interrupts).
    • awill 10y ago
      E3 does support ECC RAM. I'm running a Haswell Xeon E3-1225 with 16GB ECC RAM as my workstation.
    • clhodapp 10y ago
      I believe that the ability to use ECC RAM is actually the main differentiator between i7 and E3.
    • compuguy 10y ago
      I've seen E3's in low end servers like the Dell T20...