The new Intel function “program-defined silicon” (Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSI) will allow organizations to buy options built into the Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids server processors. The SDSI service is officially known as “ Intel on Demand “.
Intel added a new page with a list of paid functions of Xeon, a list of IT companies that support this initiative, as well as information about two ways to use the service.
According to the new page, Intel on Demand works on two models:
- Activation Model, which allows you to once activate the functions of the XEON processors. This includes a 6-type setting process when the client sends a request for updating the infrastructure supplier, and he requests an Intel license for the client. Then the supplier activates the license on the client’s servers. Information about the state of the Client’s data center with SDSI support is transmitted to the supplier and Intel.
- Consumption Model, which allows the use of SDSI by the AS-A-Service model that support Intel On Demand. According to Intel, this will allow organizations to “use Intel Xeon processors to scale capacity, optimize the cost and dynamic setting of infrastructure in accordance with business needs.”
Activation model scheme
Intel on Demand:
- Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) is a security function designed to protect data in the encrypted parts of the CPU.
- Intel Quick Assist Technology (Intel QAT) – a technology that accelerates the working loads on the encryption and encryption and encryption compression of data due to unloading using the unloading mechanism.
- Intel Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel DLB)- the hardware and controlled load balancing system in the processor developed for telecommunication applications.
- Intel in- Memory Analytics Accelerator (Intel IAA) – the function of accelerating compression and decompression for Big Data applications and analytical databases in memory.
- Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel DSA) – an option that accelerates the data between the processor nuclei, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory, memory Cash memory, connected storage and network storage devices.
Intel has also listed suppliers of IT services that will support Intel On Demand, among them there are Lenovo, Supermicro, the Intel DataCenter Solutions Group server unit and others.
companies supporting the new Intel on Demand
Intel will present Intel on Demand with Sapphire Rapids chips. The Intel spokesman said that SDSI is an additional service that gives organizations a flexible way to pay for XEON processors and the functions they need. Intel on Demand with the 4th generation Xeon Scalable processors gives customers the opportunity to choose the functions that are most important for their business at any time throughout the Xeon processor life.