The Intel Xeon E5 series is a family of enterprise-grade server and workstation processors designed for high-performance computing, virtualization, and data centers. Released across several generations (v1 to v4) utilizing Sandy Bridge to Broadwell architectures, these CPUs (e.g., E5-2600 v3/v4) are known for multi-core performance (up to 22 cores), high memory bandwidth (DDR3/DDR4), and multi-socket scalability.