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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois chose Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors for its 9,600-core “Abe” supercomputer, which offers academic researchers, businesses, and members of industry access to outstanding processing performance for solving a full range of science and business problems.  Read the case study.

Puppets telling the story of virtualization?  That’s right.  In this inagural episode of Tales of IT Utopia, the Minister of Plenipotentiary of IT Utopia  comes to the rescue of the IT Guy to takeson the Jinx and the Boss. Let us have your comments if you want to see more.

Intel’s strategic planning manager Matt Langman takes a look at the future of Intel products and technology and discusses how Intel technology and process are delivering tremendous value. In addition to providing an update on the latest client and server technologies, Langman also talks about technologies that address IT challenges.

Taking a strategic look at the future of Intel products and technology, Rick White, senior strategist for the Digital Enterprise Group, discusses how Intel technology and process are delivering tremendous value. In addition to providing an update on the latest client and server technologies, White also talks about technologies that address IT challenges.

In this latest issue of the Intel Premier IT Professional program’s IT best practice magazine, Intel and industry leaders provide insights on successful technologies and practices to get you started on your way to IT Utopia.  Highlights include an Intel Product Roadmap from two perspectives (”tops-down” from industry trends and “bottoms-up” from the microprocessor), an interview with Intel CIO John Johnson, and an article on how Sony Imageworks utilizes their 8500 core data farm.

Because our knowledge workers are also consumers of digital technology, our user experiences create new opportunities for innovation, enabling what we call the consumerization of IT.  “Digital natives”, who grew up surrounded by computers, MP3 players, mobile phones, and all the applications that go with them, are trendsetters and trend predictors.  They pick up on innovations and enthusiasm for them, advocating and using new technologies long before they catch on in the mainstream. This Intel Premier IT magazine article examines the ways Intel IT empowers these digital natives to conribute to the consumerization of IT and become enablers of new ideas.

Taken separately, virtualization, service orientation and grid computing are “old news”.  But merge these three powerful technologies, and we’ve got a new information technology model that will fundamentally change the way we do business.  This Intel Premier IT magazine article is an extract from the Intel Press IT Best Practice Series book titled The Business Value of Service-Oriented Grids: Strategic Insights for Enterprise Decision Makers.  The book synthesizes multiple technology trends, including software and hardware architecture, high-performance computing, networking, and telecommunications, with business trends such as outsourcing, systems integration, hosting, and the emerging Internet portal data center.

Several times a year, Intel employees meet and plot how to hijack shipments of microprocessors, sell our intellectual property to competitors, blackmail our coworkers, and hack our networks. And we pay them to do it. We even provide lunch.  This article describes how Intel Information Security teams participate in wargaming exercises to better understand vulnerabilities and identify holes in the company’s defenses.

Balancing capability and capacity can be a real challenge when data centers are provisioned in a piecemeal fashion. SGI took a different approach, as this Intel Premier IT article documents, by tailoring a hybrid solution to fit a wide range of workflows.

With the move to Intel® processors and the growing success of OS X as a consumer operating system, Apple’s Macintosh* and other computers are proving to be more and more interesting to businesses and government agencies.  In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, the author takes a look at the due diligence required to make sure that they can integrate into the existing environment, be managed seamlessly, save money, and help employees be more productive.