Data network bandwidth requirements are currently shifting from 1Gb to 10Gb. But 100Gb is not far away – optical networking becomes essentially mandatory to carry large amounts of data. Researchers are investigating not only materials and equipment, but also novel [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Rich Bader, president of Oregon-based EasyStreet, discusses his company’s efforts to move beyond “adding a CRAC unit” and instead building an energy-efficient data center. For more information see: EasyStreet Home [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Clive D’Souza stops by to talk about newly announced storage features – integrating SAS onto an Intel processor and next generation software RAID. For more information see: Intel Storage Intel [See the full post…]

Agriculture presents good opportunities for robotics and computer vision research. And practices, devices and algorithms developed by researchers may someday significantly benefit farmers and improve crops. Determining vineyard yields is one of Intel Labs’ computational agriculture projects. Total time – [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: As part of our cloud computing strategy, Intel IT has been opportunistically taking advantage of external offerings of software as a service (SaaS) applications. To prepare for broader SaaS adoption, we designed a SaaS architecture that will [See the full post…]

Brain trauma affects more than 2 million people in the U.S. each year because of accidents and participation in sports. But little is understood about the connections within the brain that can be broken but not detected. Using MRI scans, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Carl Hansen from Intel Ethernet discusses the advancements in 10 gigabit Ethernet – including integrating the PHY and MAC into a single processor, reducing power and cost. Intel and Ethernet [See the full post…]

Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing (spearheaded by the companies HP, Intel and Yahoo, and including research partners such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois) recently announced its expansion. An Internet service such as Facebook [See the full post…]

A coming major advance in computer technology is a form of context awareness known as Socially Enabled Services or SENS, which refers to mobile devices that can anticipate user needs, such as advising the best routes to take on the [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer and an Intel Senior Fellow, talks about the future of contextual-based computing – making your phone, TV, etc. into a truly amazing device. Justin Rattner [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Sunil Ahluwalia from the LAN Access Division discusses Fibre Channel over Ethernet – aggregating Ethernet and storage networks to reduce TCO and infrastructure and get seamless management. Fibre Channel over [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Greg Wagnon, the up and coming Intel Data Center Dude, stops by to talk about his video series and preview some upcoming technologies like Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture. The [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Burroughs from the Data Center Group stops by to discuss moving beyond counting cores and clock frequencies and instead using performance metrics when making server purchases. Intel Server Processors [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Brian Johnson from the LAN Access Division discusses the move to virtualizing servers and supporting technology, including Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity and SR-IOV. Intel Ethernet Intel Chip Chat Home [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Zuber from IBM previews what the company will be demonstrating at VMworld – an Intel Xeon processor based system featuring MAX 5* memory scaling technology. IBM Systems Intel Chip [See the full post…]

We have Isaac Asimov to thank for thinking about robots as a science when he coined the term “robotics” in the 1940s. Originally, the term came from the word “robota” from Czech (possessing a similar meaning in other Slavic tongues) [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: executive vice president David Perlmutter celebrates Chip Chat’s 100th episode with thoughts on everything from new Intel microarchitectures to technology and social interaction. David Perlmutter Bio Intel Chip Chat Home [See the full post…]

When Intel Labs established its Interactions and Experience Research Lab, known as IXR, this past summer, it was a sign that the making of technology has profoundly changed. It is one thing to invent a machine or a process, it [See the full post…]

Let’s take a moment away from our ongoing technological revolution to examine the landscape a bit. In this video from Intel, we see that the evolution of computing and the network has inspired people in a variety of ways, some [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Kevin Bross from Intel’s Embedded Computing Group discusses Intel Energy Checker, which provides software developers the ability to easily instrument applications to measure useful work. Intel Energy Checker Intel Chip [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this Intel IT Whitepaper – Server sizing and selection is a critical element of Intel IT’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure strategy, which makes use of both two-socket and four-socket servers. Under-sizing servers may result in [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Peter Biddle from Intel’s software group discusses the Intel Atom developer program and the Intel AppUp, a store for Atom processor-based applications. Intel Atom Developer Program Intel AppUp

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein from SIGGRAPH, Allyson chats with Mark Noland from Autodesk and Thomas Teger from Luxion about what their companies demonstrated at the show. Autodesk Home Page KeyShot* Home Page

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Shannon Cepeda, from Intel’s software group, chats about software products for developers, which includes Intel Parallel Studio, a suite of tools for enabling parallelism. Sign up for Intel Software Techdays [See the full post…]

In 2009 the Irish rock band U2 experienced the realities of space communication when they connected in a live 2-way video conference between Bono on the concert stage in front of stadium audiences and astronauts in the International Space Station. [See the full post…]