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The prefix in the flavor-name indicates the capabilities of the CPU associated with the flavor. The prefix is divided into two parts:
- prefixclass: 1-3 2 letters indication flavor-class
- generation: a digit indicating the flavor generation.
- storage-location: optionally a single letter indicating the default storage-location.
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Intel Xeon based flavors:
The intel-Intel Xeon based flavors can currently exist in 5 different generations. The following table lists the generations, and some of the functionality the generations provides.
| Gen | CPU architecture | AES-acecleration | AVX | AVX2 | AVX512 1.generation | AVX512 2.generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmere |  |  | | | |
| 2 | Sandy-Bridge | | | | | |
| 3 | Haswell | | | | | |
| 4 | Sky-Lake | | | | | |
| 5 | Cascade-Lake | | | | | |
AMD EPYC based flavors:
Storage locations
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