Questions tagged [intel]

This tag should be used for questions about Intel based server platforms, software and others related specifically to hardware and software from the Intel Corporation.

Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. Intel is the inventor of the x86 processor architecture and makes central processing units, motherboard chipsets, graphic processing units, network interface controllers and much more devices related to communications and computing.

In addition to their hardware offerings Intel also produces a variety of software including compilers, libraries for mathematical computation(Intel MKL), threading(OpenMP, Intel Performance Primatives, Threading Building Blocks), parallel communication(MPI,OFED/True Scale Infiniband Stack) and several other products included in the Intel Parallel Studio toolkit. In addition to these offerings which are widely used in HPC Intel also produces software for datacenter management, is one of the most prolific contributors to the Linux kernel, and powers over 70% of the fastest computers on the planet.

This tag should be used for questions about Intel hardware and software, specifically when used on server systems.

For more information about Intel, visit their homepage: http://www.intel.com.

(note this is borrowed from the Stackoverflow Intel tag but the information is applicable)

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Disable internal Intel X710 LLDP agent

We do special hardware configurations that require the heavy use of LLDP. We have a few new racks of servers that all use the Intel X710 10Gb network card. LLDP suddenly stopped working. Our implementation of LLDP is simple. Enable LLDP on the TOR…
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Best practice to disable SpeedStep for Hyper-V hosts?

I'm analyzing a problem where performance of CPU-bound workloads inside virtual machines often (not always) is way below what we would expect based on the underlying hardware. We're using Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2. The server has dual Intel…
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Life span of Pentium computers

I was given the task to determine the life span of a computer with a Pentium 1 processor. One of our clients is unwilling to upgrade their computers in order for our software to run and we are looking for documentation on how outdated these…
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Intel Atom 330 as a server machine

That's the processor I'm thinking about getting for a home server / development machine. Going for $80 as intel motherboard + dual core processor combo is a really tempting deal. What I'm planning to do is ethernet/wifi sharing, rails development…
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Confused about Intel vPro/AMT technlogies

I'm a bit confused about Intel vPro/AMT and processors/motherboards supporting these features. If I install an Intel i3 processor - a CPU not vPro compatible - on a motherboard compatible with these technologies, the whole support will be fully and…
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Intel IMSM firmware with added PCIe Controller

I currently have a RAID 10 (6x 2TB) running in an Intel IMSM container ("fakeraid", firmware RAID) on Ubuntu 16.04 on an ASUS H170M-PLUS (Intel H170 chipset). I'm using all 6 SATA ports on the MOBO and want to add a PCIe JBOD controller and add the…
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ESXi 5.5, slow network speed when writing to guests

This is an issue that has been bugging me for a lot time with ESXi. I had the issue with my old Dell server (ESXi 5.0 and 5.5) and even with my new Dell T20 (ESXi 5.5). For the current issue at hand I will only focus on the new Dell T20 server, to…
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How to improve Intel X520-DA2 10Gb NIC throughput without Jumbo packets

Here's what I have done so far: Using more Rx/Tx buffers boosts performance the most from defaults. I set RSS Queues to 4 on each adapter, and specified starting RSS CPU on the second port to something other than 0 (it's 16 on the PC that I use,…
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Intel NIC X540-T1 non-functional in Ubuntu Server 12.04

I have installed three Intel X540-T1's in servers running Ubuntu Server 12.04, but all are non-functional, no link lights, no packets sent or received, and no connection on ip4 or ip6 whether set up as dhcp or static. Also, dmesg doesn't detect…
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cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 3.00GHz model but 1400.000 cpu MHz?

I ran this command on ssh to see CPU info: cat /proc/cpuinfo And it says: ... vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping : 3 cpu MHz :…
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Does Intel vPro work via add-on NICs?

We're currently using Dell OptiPlex workstations with the Intel vPro feature. A remote location is requiring their computers be connected via fibre for security reasons. This will require us to install third-party FO NICs in the workstations. My…
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Need a solution to stop students from rotating screen on laptops with intel graphics

We have some students who have figured out how to rotate the screen using either the hotkey combination or right click context menu. It's easy to fix but it's time consuming because no matter how many times I tell people how to fix it there's always…
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using correct number of DIMMS for best memory performance Intel Xeon scalable cpu

I am trying to understand what I guess is called a balanced memory configuration. For the newest cpu's from Intel at this point in time, January 2018 which are for example Xeon 8180 and Xeon 6154, how many DIMMS per CPU socket should be used to get…
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Get exact SMART error from Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology)

On one system I use dual NVMe m.2 drives on an Intel Z170 board in RAID0 with Intel RST. After about 6 months of light use the Intel RST Tool gives me a SMART error. The only option I have is to suppress the error. Instead of suppressing I would…
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nvme device dropouts - I/O 0 QID 0 timeout, controller disabled

We have 6 Supermicro servers all of the same (or very similar spec), Over the last two weeks one of them has been dropped an NVMe disk at random times due to: [ 66.856719] nvme 0000:03:00.0: I/O 0 QID 0 timeout, disable controller [ 66.957911]…
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