Resources Tagged with 'servers'

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.

Intel IT program manager Brently Davis suggests that data center efficiency includes both reducing the cost of computing and the cost of servers, while implementing data center consolidation and grid computing. He also touches on the top concerns for tackling such a project.

A detailed return on investment analysis by Intel IT showed that we can reduce data center costs by refreshing all servers after four years.

Indiana’s Office of Technology saved the state more than USD 13.9 million by standardizing on Intel® multicore server technologies. Now,it’s targeting over USD 400,000 in IT savings annually and another USD 400,000 in power savings from deploying Dell PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology.  This case study in the recent Intel Premier IT magazine tells the story.

Intel IT compared the performance of two and four processor-socket servers in a virtualized environment.  This virtualization benchmark study examined server performance, total cost of ownership and scalability for a variety of deployment scenarios.

At a recent technology briefing, Intel discussed future products with four, six, eight and many computing cores coming to the market and revealed details around Intel’s multi-processor servers based on Intel’s 6-core processor codenamed “Dunnington” and Intel’s new Itanium® processor codenamed “Tukwila.”  These plus additional future technology insights are contained in this Intel Multicore Architecture Briefing document.

To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building.  Get the details in this IT@Intel white paper.

Compete to win one of three HP workstations powered by Intel® Xeon® processors. The Intel Xeon Robo Brawl contest will allow you not only to test your gaming skills as a robotic combatant, but will also provide insights into the energy-efficiency, virtualization and performance capabilities of the Xeon processor-based servers.

Alan Piklor, VMWare Corporate Account Manager, describes how virtualization can address data center challenges and obstacles. Piklor also describes what changes the virtualization market is going through as it enters the third generation, and provides an overview and case studies of VMware products.

What does Moore’s Law have to do with data centers?  Plenty.  New 45nm servers will help Intel deliver more cores, lower in power, using volumn economics.  Gary Howard of Intel Solution Services also explains how Intel helps with server technology and data center design decisions.