After our successful, proof-of-concept (POC) testing of our on-premise platform, where we found that the Granulate software reduced 25% of memory and 44% of CPU utilization, while offering potential cost savings, we began testing in the cloud Databricks data lake. [See the full post…]

INESC-ID researchers Aleksandar Ilic and Diogo Augusto Pereira Marques reveal their journey in extending Roofline Modeling for use in application optimization, known as the Cache-aware Roofline Model, or CARM, which has been incorporated into the Intel® Advisor tool and recognized [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Fujitsu Spain makes the most of the Intel vPro platform for optimum data security, remote management, and energy efficiency. [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: Maximize Efficiency for your Lightweight Scale-Out Workloads. [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Canadian HPC consortium SHARCNET generates impressive energy savings by investing in new servers based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family. [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Migrating from a RISC-based architecture to an Intel Xeon processor E7 family-based platform, China TravelSky Holding Company improves both data center utilization and energy efficiency. [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Russian Joint Supercomputer Center raises the bar for performance and energy efficiency with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Migrating from a legacy RISC platform to a server platform powered by Intel Xeon processors has helped Yunnan Telecom meet its goals for cost-effectiveness, energy efficiency, and flexibility and gain an edge in the competitive [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Representatives from the Pecan Street project and the Texas Advanced Computing Center stop by to talk about their energy lifestyle research project, also known as a Smart Grid. They’re [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jim Ganthier from HP stops by to discuss the launch of the HP Proliant Gen8 server line based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family. The line, top to [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jon Koomey from Stanford discusses his new book Cold Cash, Cool Climate, which covers how to profit from tackling climate change and how industry can drive consumers. For [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Buncombe County Schools deploy PCs with Intel Core vPro processors to boost performance, ease remote management, and improve energy efficiency. [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: from VMworld, Mark Thiele from Switch, discusses running some of the highest-availability and energy efficient data centers on the planet including PUE, cooling trends/air management, infrastructure [See the full post…]

Green IT: To increase data center energy efficiency at one of our older data centers in India, Intel IT’s Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop [See the full post…]

Bob Burroughs from the Data Center Group discusses benchmarks: What they measure, how they’re developed, and incorporating emerging technologies like energy efficiency and the cloud.

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The people of Intel IT are deploying next generation data centers that deliver increased compute power but use much less energy. It starts at the microprocessor level. The latest Xeon chips, which are at the heart of Intel’s newest servers, [See the full post…]

Shannon Poulin previews Intel microarchitecture, codenamed Westmere. Topics covered include key features, energy efficiency, industry reaction and new security enhancements.

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Steve Murtha updates listeners on the next-generation home server based on Intel Atom processors: Performance, features, energy efficiency and adoption in the marketplace.

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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 [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

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. [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

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, [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]

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 [See the full post…]