Posted on August 26th, 2008
Infoworld published this preview of the much anticipated Dunnington processor:
“Intel plans to launch its six-core Xeon server processor next month, with the extra cores and a larger cache giving the chip a performance advantage over the company’s existing quad-core chips.
Code-named Dunnington, the six-core Xeon processor is designed for servers that have four or more processors. Manufactured using a 45-nanometer production process, the chip should be the last new model based on Intel’s Penryn processor design before the release of the company’s first Nehalem chips in a few months’ time.”
Read the entire article here http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/21/More_cores_bigger_cache_give_boost_to_Dunnington_1.html
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Posted on August 25th, 2008
At last week’s Intel Developer Forum, Intel executives discussed new features of the company’s next-generation processor family - including a new turbo mode that shifts the processor into a higher gear for mind-blowing performance without a heat penalty.
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008
An interesting article from HPCWire, which relates to getting the most out of multi-core:
“Intel has introduced Parallel Studio, a suite of four tools to help application developers write parallel programs on multicore and manycore platforms. The suite is aimed at the millions of C and C++ programmers struggling to incorporate parallelism into their applications, and it does so not just by providing tools, but also by baking the expertise needed to use them effectively right into the toolset.”
Read the entire article http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Intel_Develops_Toolset_for_Parallel_Programming.html
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Posted on August 19th, 2008
Sun Microsystems has extended its family of Intel Xeon-based Sun Fire servers with two new offerings for High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud/Web 2.0 and back office computing workloads, including a 1U server for HPC workloads and an expandable 2U enterprise-class system. The Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 servers, powered by one or two dual- or quad-core Intel Xeon processors 5200 or 5400 series, run a variety of operating systems, including Solaris 10, Linux and Windows.
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Posted on August 13th, 2008
According to Arthur Cole blogging on ITBusinessEdge, the new generation of fiber optic technology will revolutionize computing with the latest chipsets. Photonics technology that connects processor cores to on-chip systems through optical interconnects is destined to lower power consumption and increase the speed of computers. From the article:
Intel is pushing this technology the farthest at the moment, demonstrating a design that puts up to 200 Gbps on a single beam, twice as fast as current optical networking technology. The company is looking to combine up to 25 40-Gbps modulators onto a single chip to get the data rate up to a terabit or more.
Read the entire article here: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/atc/?p=428
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Posted on August 11th, 2008
A recent article in Computerworld talks about Intel’s recently released System-on-Chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor. Article author Brian Fonseca writes:
Intel has launched its System-on-Chip (SoC) EP8579 integrated processor, which is said to offer lower power and customization capabilities for embedded voice, storage and security applications. The new product family is the first wave of Intel’s revamped SoC design, which the company said adds smarter chip intelligence.
The integrated offering [is] based on Intel’s Pentium M processor and combines the functionality of four chips into a single circuit, according to Seth Bobroff, general manager of Intel’s Storage Group.
Read the entire article here: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1115361782;fp;2;fpid;1
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Posted on August 8th, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.–HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing.
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Posted on July 29th, 2008
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008
In an article published during the SIFMA Technology Management Conference in June, Wall Street & Technology magazine took a look at the trend of virtualization in the financial services sector. Radakrishna Hiremane, senior product marketing engineer at Intel, was interviewed for the article. The following is a brief excerpt:
Intel’s Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq), which are baked into the vendor’s 5400 “Harpertown” chipset and will be part of its other server chipsets going forward, offloads certain virtual machine software functions, such as the sorting of data, to hardware, speeding up the process, according to the company. Intel calls this hardware-assisted virtualization. Using VMDq on a 10gigE network interface card, Hiremane says, Intel has demonstrated a data throughput of 9.8 gigabytes per second.
Read the entire article online here: Wall Street Firms Increasingly Are Adopting Virtualization Technologies.
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008
According to an article recently published in eWEEK, IBM’s iDataPlex server array will be used for testing Microsoft’s Windows High-Performance Cluster operating system. From the article:
To help with HPC, IBM is also expanding iDataPlex with Intel Xeon quad-core 5400 series processors—3.0GHz—to pack 145 teraflops of performance into one of the company’s new 315-square-foot modular data centers.
Read the entire article online here: IBM Scores Microsoft as First iDataPlex Customer.
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