Great new SQL Server performance on Intel's Xeon 5500 series, aka Nehalem-EPhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sqlperf/archive/2009/03/31/great-new-sql-server-performance-on-intel-s-xeon-5500-series-aka-nehalem-ep.aspxYesterday, Intel launched its new Xeon 5500 series processors, code named Nehalem-EP. This is essentially the first server-class version of what Intel launched on the desktop as Core i7 last fall. With no frontside bus, and an embedded, multi-channelen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)