IT Best Practices: Designing Intel microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Tapeout is a final step in silicon design and its computation demand is growing exponentially for each generation of silicon process technology. Intel IT adopted high-performance computing (HPC) to address [See the full post…]

Intelligent Storage: This paper examines the size and status of the worldwide market for high-performance computing (HPC) storage systems, along with evolutionary trends affecting this market. The paper also looks at Intel and Xyratex as examples of vendors at the [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.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Sci-Tech Daresbury unveils a world-leading high-performance computing (HPC) facility for the UK scientific community based on Intel Xeon processors E5-2670.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Frequent guest Dylan Larson, Director of Server Platform Marketing, stops by to complete our coverage of the Intel Xeon processor E5 launch. He discusses the benefits of the new platform, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: John Lee from Appro and Allan Snavely from the San Diego Supercomputer Center chat about the Appro designed and Intel processor Gordon supercomputer that is designed to be used for [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Auto manufacturer BMW uses the Intel Xeon processor E5 family to develop its high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bill Mannel from SGI and Bill Thigpen from NASA discuss the launch of SGI ICE X based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family and using high end computing at [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: SC11 livecast archive: Ramesh Peri, principal engineer at Intel, talks developments and benefits of Intel Vtune Amplifier XE, a performance analysis tool for checking app performance on Intel processors. See [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive from an SC11 livecast, Debra Goldfarb, HPC Strategy Director for Intel, talks about how high performance computing touches our daily lives, everything from food production to car [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from SC|11, Jon Riley from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences discusses using advanced computer digital manufacturing (tools such as product modeling and simulation) [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive of a livecast from SC|11, Brock Palen from the University of Michigan stops by to talk about trends in high-performance computing including his work, managing and analyzing [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Just in time for Supercomputing next week, Joe Curley and John Hengeveld stop by to talk about world-changing issues that are being addressed by high performance computing – like climate [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: David Patterson from UC Berkeley discusses the university’s parallel computing lab, software development for multi-core, HPC and the cloud, the possibility of personalized medicine, and using data analytics to aid [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: In this archive episode of an IDF livecast, James Reinders from Intel’s software group, stops by to talk about the evolution of high performance computing (HPC) and parallel programming. See [See the full post…]

In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Greg Bruno, VP of Engineering from StackIQ, talks about the company’s focus in the HPC, big data, and the cloud markets and using StackIQ Rocks for managing the [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Michael Showerman Technical Program Manager for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications discusses the science of technical computing and the scalability and portability of the Intel MIC architecture. See also: [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Norbert Eicher from FZ Juelich discusses the efficiency and portability that the Intel MIC architecture delivers and the collaborative work to deliver the future of supercomputing. See also: FZ Juelich [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: John Hengeveld Director of Marketing for Technical Computing at Intel discusses the status of Intel Many Core processor development, its momentum and the work we are doing with the Texas [See the full post…]

Last week Chip Chat was at Supercomputing, the leading high performance computing (HPC) conference – Allyson interviewed technologists from a variety of companies on their planned demos. Server Products Intel Chip Chat Home Page

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Tom Stachura from Intel Ethernet gives an overview of iWARP (Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol) including low-latency features and proposed markets (HPC, cloud, financial). Intel Ethernet Intel Chip Chat Home [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Designing Intel microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Tapeout is a final step in silicon design and its computation demand is growing exponentially for each generation of silicon process technology. Intel IT adopted high-performance computing (HPC) to address [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

Geoffrey Noer from SGI talks about the company’s open architecture, highly-scalable approach to Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based systems. For more information see: SGI Intel Server Processors

In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the [See the full post…]