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Processor Performance
Demanding workloads often require faster processors with more processing cores and features to deliver faster results or a higher quality user experience. Alternately, cost-optimized options may be ideal for less-demanding workloads.

System Memory
Data intensive workloads can benefit from increased system memory, so your processors wait less often while retrieving data from slow storage devices.

Intel^® Platform Protection Technology with Trusted Execution Technology (TXT)
Hardens platforms from hypervisor attacks, BIOS, or other firmware attacks, malicious root kit installations, or other software-based attacks. Provides hardware monitoring and security controls that help assure a workload is running on trusted SoftLayer hardware in a known location.

Processor Generation
Next-generation processors deliver superior performance and new features compared to the previous generation. For example, "v2" = 2nd generation and "v3" = 3rd generation.

Intel^® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel^® AVX)
Can improve performance in floating point intensive applications, such as life science engineering, data mining, financial analysis, or other technical computing applications. Also enhances image, video, and audio processing.

Intel^® Turbo Boost Technology
Accelerates processor and graphics performance in traditional non-parallel workloads by allowing cores to run faster than the rated operating frequency when below power, current, and temperature specification limits.

Intel^® Data Protection Technology with Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI)
Accelerates the encryption of data using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.