In this demo with Rob F. Van der Wijngaart, Senior Software Engineer, Intel:

The experimental chip was designed to operate from as high as 125W to as low as 25W by providing a variety of advanced capabilities to manage power consumption. Power use is largely determined by the cores’ clock speeds and operating voltages. The chip has a unique ability to mix and match voltages and clock speeds for the different cores, or even to turn off entire regions of the chip when not needed. These capabilities can be controlled by software, allowing the application or operating system to intelligently manage power consumption, adapting in real time to use only the energy that is really needed. The demonstration displays how power levels for different sections of the chip change in response to the needs of a series of tasks whose power requirements vary over time.  The tasks of the application are modeled after parallel computations.

This podcast is from the live webcast at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco on December 2, 2009. This demo followed Intel CTO, Justin Rattner’s opening remarks on the Single-Chip Cloud Computer, the latest Intel Labs milestone in the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program.

See photos on Flickr

Connected Social Media Syndication Featured, Intel, Intel Labs, Research@Intel Clift Hotel, Demo, energy efficiency, experimental chip, Intel Labs, Intel Research, Real-Time Advanced Power Management, San Francisco, Single-chip Cloud Computer, Tera-scale Computing Research Program

Reflecting on his life in venture capital, Managing Director, Jim Jones shares his thoughts on the best areas for investment today. At Scale Venture Partners, he sees three key trends as most intriguing: the cost of data in the enterprise, energy efficiency, and the destruction of the personal computer. He speaks out candidly on these trends and what is most challenging about this environment.

Jennifer Jones Corporate, Venture Perspectives by Scale Venture Partners energy efficiency, Jennifer Jones, Jim Jones, Scale Venture Partners, Venture Capital Investing, Venture Perspectives

In this Intel Chip Chat podcast with Allyson Klein, Mike Patterson from Intel’s Eco-Technology program office discusses refresh options and cost savings for the data center.

Connected Social Media Syndication Corporate, Intel, Intel Chip Chat Allyson Klein, data center, Eco-Technology, energy efficiency, Intel, Mike Patterson

The Core i7 microprocessor (built on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture) represents a major advance in computing to enable chips to handle more data. In this video podcast, Ronak Singhal, a lead architect on Nehalem, says the chip design is an overhaul–the internal core has been changed significantly for added performance, as well as for better energy efficiency.

“We’ve put in features such as Turbo Boost Technology, our integrated power gate, an integrated memory controller, and Hyper-Threading,” he says. The effort took about five years and required thousands of engineers.

“Building this microprocessor brings a lot of people together, like architects, micro architects, the design teams,” commented Rani Borkar, vice president of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “As you get into the development phases, working with the process technology, it’s a mind-boggling effort that requires a lot of teamwork across the board.”

This video takes you into Intel’s labs to meet some of the researchers behind the Core i7.

kevine Corporate, Intel, Intel Nehalem chip design, Core i7, energy efficiency, Energy Smart, Francois Piednoel, Gaming, Hyper-Threading, Intel, microarchitecture, microprocessor, Nehalem, Rani Borkar, Regina Wu, Ronak Singhal, Turbo Boost Technology

At Intel’s Jones Farm Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, the new Core i7 chip is going through the rigors of testing. Stephen Gunther is Power Management Architect at Intel who shows how the new Turbo Mode feature revolutionizes multi-core processor performance, giving the best of both worlds – high performance and optimal energy efficiency.

Connected Social Media Corporate, Intel, Intel Nehalem chip design, Core i7, energy efficiency, Energy Smart, Hillsboro, Intel, Nehalem, Power Management, processor, Stephen Gunther, Turbo Mode

Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data center requires understanding the underlying domains: facility, network, server, storage and how security interacts with manageability and other technology. The security architect has to evolve plans for business continuity and disaster recovery, as well as jump into emerging threat and risk arenas like Web application security. Facilities monitoring and management and energy savings require understanding and balancing customer service levels with the need to pinpoint where, when and how much compute power is needed, and migrating workloads accordingly. Virtualization is another game-changer in the data center, increasing capacity and manageability while decreasing energy consumption.

Alan Ross comes to enterprise architecture from an unconventional background. He holds a number of patents, has worked with electrorheological fluids to change the behavior of automotive dampers, and hopes someday to be part of future innovations in energy efficiency, photovoltaics and photolytics.

Blogs IT@Intel

Some images courtesy of:

Andrew Wales, Gisela Francisco, John Trainor, Koshy Koshy, Refracted Moments, Les Chatfield and Robin Hutton via Attribution 2.0 Generic; Bill Stilwell, Jamie Beverly, Craig Rodway, Fod Tzellos, Eric Schmuttenmaer, Stan Wiechers, gailf548, Andy Melton, Dawn Endico amd Mike Lowell via Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic; Hans Splinter via Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic

Connected Social Media Connected Social Media, Corporate, IT@Intel, InfoWorld, Intel, Intel-OpenPort Alan Ross, data center, electrorheological fluids, energy efficiency, enterprise architecture, IT@Intel, storage capacity, virtualization

High-performance computing presents unique challenges in performance, energy efficiency and parallel processing, and Intel has just unveiled a unique solution. The Intel Xeon processors and platforms use an entirely new transistor formula based on the second generation of the Intel Core microarchitecture. Intel’s new high-performance computing (HPC) platform is made possible by technological advancements in the new quad-core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series or dual-core Intel Xeon processor 5200 series, and Intel 5400 chipset. Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore calls the processors which use Intel’s Hafnium-based High-k metal gate transistor formula and will be manufactured on the company’s 45-nanometer process, the biggest transistor advancement in 40 years.

The new Xeon family continues Intel’s leadership in delivering faster, more energy-efficient processors, with a 38 percent improvement in performance per watt over its predecessor.

Related Stories: IntelMooresLaw

Catherine Girardeau Connected Social Media, Corporate, InfoWorld, Intel, Intel Moore's Law, Intel-OpenPort 45 nanometer, 5200, 5400, dual-core, energy efficiency, Gordon Moore, hafnium, high performance computing, high-k, HPC, Intel, Intel Core microarchitecture, IntelMooresLaw, metal gate transistor, parallel processing, quad core, technological advancements, transistor, Xeon

Energy management and energy efficiency in data centers: Intel and HP are working together to save energy and money while boosting computing performance. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is one way that Intel and HP are working to create sustainable high-performance technology for the enterprise. How do the energy management capabilities achieved by deploying Intel’s vPro platform contribute to power savings across an entire business? And what should the energy-conscious data center manager consider in trying to implement power savings in the data center? (More information on energy-effient chips related to this week’s announcement from another sponsor of the initiative, Marvell — a chip that actually determines the energy requirements of individual applications.

Catherine Girardeau Connected Social Media, Corporate, HP - Technology For Better Business Outcomes, InfoWorld, Intel, Intel vPro, Intel-OpenPort Climate Savers Computing Initiative, computing performance, data centers, energy efficiency, Energy management, HP, Intel

Lorie Wigle discusses Intel’s work through the newly-launched initiative to establish innovative energy efficiency and power management targets for the computing industry.

Related Stories: IntelMooresLaw

Connected Social Media Syndication Connected Social Media, Corporate, Intel, Intel Chip Chat, Intel Developer Forum, Intel Moore's Law energy efficiency, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, Lorie Wigle

On June 1, Silicon Valley profiled itself as the future epicenter of solar power, energy efficiency and clean technologies at the Energy Summit 2007. Jacob and Desirae, two of my students at Stanford, attended to see with Silicon Valley’s leaders were up to. They report on the conference in this video, so in case you missed it, this is a chance to catch up and listen to what’s cooking and what’s not in the Bay Area.

Margot Gerritsen Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy clean technologies, energy efficiency, Energy Summit, Silicon Valley, solar power