Let’s face it. Most of us are geeks at heart and love the new technology. So, this section focuses on that new technology that may impact us as IT managers.
Posted Apr 21, 2009
During his keynote, titled “IA: The Intelligent Architecture Investment,” Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, discussed Intel’s latest client, server and embedded product lines, and gave developers an update on the latest programming tools available for the Larrabee architecture.
Intel’s complete Intel architecture future product roadmap was also revealed. Gelsinger said the “Nehalem” microarchitecture has received worldwide acclaim with the Core® i7 processor launch in 2008 and the recent Nehalem-based Intel® Xeon® 5500 series introduction. The Xeon 5500 series combines the world’s leading processor microarchitecture with a new memory and I/O subsystem, Intel® QuickPath Interconnect and Intel® Intelligent Power Technology to control power consumption.
Gelsinger said Intel and the industry now look to adopting more mainstream PC and laptop versions of the Nehalem microarchitecture, including 32nm manufactured versions with on-processor graphics, as well the multi-socket Nehalem EX server processor, all in production in the second half of 2009. The future Nehalem-EX processor will provide eight cores for the multiprocessor “intelligent server” market.
For embedded computers, Gelsinger discussed a range of recently announced Intel® Atom™ processor solutions with industrial temp for applications such as in-vehicle infotainment and industrial automation. He also disclosed, for the first time ever, the Nehalem-EP based processor (codenamed “Jasper Forest”) that is specifically designed to deliver increased compute density and integration required for embedded and storage applications.
Gelsinger also addressed Larrabee, which is Intel’s first many-core architecture designed for high throughput applications and features a programmable graphics pipeline that enables developer freedom. The Intel executive discussed availability of a C++ Larrabee Prototype Library and a future parallel programming solution based on “Ct” technology. The first Larrabee discrete graphics products are due in the late 2009/2010 timeframe.
Watch the keynote
47:00
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Posted Mar 30, 2009
Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped the universe. To create the high-performance computing clusters that capture and analyze the massive amount of experimental data generated, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and collaborating institutions selected Dell PowerEdge* servers equipped with Intel® Xeon® processors. Read their story.
Posted Mar 18, 2009
By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column we were drifting in our holiday bliss, looking forward 25 years to how we will protect ourselves in a digital world. We have a world in which we and our proxies must have some strong, and preferably standardized, way of authenticating ourselves for everything from purchases to work. We need to bridge the gap between the heavy authentication security vendors will want and the transparency that users will need.
So how does it happen?
Posted Mar 4, 2009
By Arthur Lessard and provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
It’s 7:30am on Friday morning. Your PDA wakes you with the latest Bach/Mozart/U2 synth medley it bought for you from the classics server off the web overnight; you’re fairly pleased with the purchase, since you didn’t even know the synthers were playing with that arrangement again. The “housething” system turns up the wall screen and flips on your favorite news channel.
Posted Feb 15, 2009
This second issue of Intel® Visual Adrenaline magazine explores the enhanced realism possible with the latest visual computing advances—in stereoscopic 3D, multi-player gaming, and computer graphic animation. The alliance between Intel and DreamWorks, resulting in the InTru 3D™ brand, aims to bring bring incredible stereoscopic 3D experiences to audiences. (Maybe you saw the Monsters vs. Aliens trailer during the Super Bowl using this technology?) Other topics highlight gaming development, the latest wrinkles in digital art, and bringing a benign monster to life. Download and preview the magazine below or subscribe today to the Visual Computing version of Intel® Software Dispatch.
Posted Feb 1, 2009
Intel’s 1H09 product roadmap contains a summary of new Intel processors that will be launched for mobile, desktop and server platforms this year.
In addition to the short-term roadmap, you can also access a presentation and press materials looking into 2H09 and 2010 disclosing a family of 32nm processors. This material is from the recent Intel $7 billion investment in 32nm technology manufacturing facilities announcement.
Posted Jan 25, 2009
Each year, the annual performance report from Intel IT has provided Intel Premier IT Professionals with valuable benchmark data and insights into how Intel is doing in it’s corporate IT mission. One important focus we report on is how Intel IT is adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services.
The progress toward 2008’s mission, Deliver competitive I + T, is also thoroughly documented with examples and data in this Information Technology 2008 Performance Report. Download your copy of this year’s comprehensive report to get insights on Intel IT’s progress in:
- Improving organizational health
- Reducing the cost of our overall operations, including carrying out our data center consolidation strategy, optimizing the WAN, accelerating server refresh cycles to optimize total cost of ownership, and saving us $95 million to date
- Adopting Intel® vPro™ Technology to improve client manageability, provisioning 31,000 computers to date, and reducing support costs through remote diagnostics and repair services (see page 18)
- Delivering IT Solutions that drive business growth, such as our supply chain management solutions enabling Intel to be more responsive to our customers, better manage our inventory and enjoy cost savings
- Improving the on-line experience of our customers through the design, delivery and management of new infrastructure required for web 2.0
- Passing the halfway point on the complete upgrade of our enterprise resource planning system
- Partnering with Intel business groups to define, develop and enable technology and products that address the needs of enterprise IT organizations
Posted Dec 8, 2008
Since the introduction of the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture in 2006 and its 45nm enhancements, Intel microprocessors have delivered unprecedented capability to end users. In 2008, a new microarchitecture code named Nehalem was introduced that stands to further build on these microarchitectural marvels, rewriting the book on processor energy efficiency, performance, and scalability.
Posted Dec 4, 2008
Watch a short video about the key role played by Intel technology in capital markets trading. See how Intel increases speed, reduces latency and provides a competitive advantage in executing trades.
Posted Nov 6, 2008
Gartner Fellow Martin Reynolds begins this presentation to the Intel Premier IT Professional local seminar with a revised forecast for 2009 end-user spending on IT products and services and paints a picture of its impact on IT. Reynolds offers key suggestions on how to deal with increasing costs, how to deliver meaningful value and innovation to business unit customers, and what new technologies and ideas IT managers should be thinking about. He further talks about the changes which the Obama presidency will bring about with an increased emphasis on global warming and the need for IT to care about CO2 emissions.
