Dell added PowerEdge R820, R720, R720xd and R620 rack servers, the M620 blade server, the T620 tower server and C6220 based on a shared Dell infrastructure server built on the Intel Xeon processor E5 product family.
Dell said its kit would ‘increase performance per watt up to 101 times over Dell servers ten years ago, enabling large data centers to save up to $1.8 million per year on server power alone.’

Functions added, many based on customer feedback, include an expanded Fresh Air offering for all PowerEdge 12th generation servers. The servers operate up to the highest excursion temperature (113° F/45°C) warrantied in mainstream servers in the industry and save up to an estimated (US) $3,000,000 in capital savings.Server fans in the R720 and T620 models that use less energy to cool the system than it takes to power a nightlight.

Power management function is OpenManage Power Center – built on Node Manager developed by Dell and Intel – controls and optimises energy usage at the server, rack, row and room level from a single interface.

Nearly all major OEMs that came out with new lines of Xeon E5-based server products are also using Intel's Data Center Manager (DCM) middleware for data center infrastructure management. With this release, Intel has expanded capabilities of the DCM to include monitoring of outlet air temperature, serial-number tracking, broken out memory power monitoring and support for more devices.

Dell also claims the industry’s first power supply unit to be awarded the highest level of energy efficiency, the Titanium certification, based on independent testing by 80 PLUS.

SGI HPC on Intel

Separately SGI is integrating the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 family into all of its high performance compute (HPC) server and storage platforms and product families.
Full support for the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 family in the SGI Rackable, SGI ICE X HPC and SGI Modular InfiniteStorage platforms is also now available.