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faster2008 CITY of Innovation and Change - Dec. 15 in London

Intel announces a new Dec. 15 London event: faster2008 CITY of Innovation and Change. A festive look back on 2008 and a view forward based on contemporary developments in our industry.

Learn more about the event or register to attend here.

Watch & Listen Now: Improving Performance and Efficiency in Wall Street’s Data Centers

Good to the Last Watt: Improving Performance and Efficiency in Wall Street’s Data Centers

A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast

Watch and listen (click below) to the webcast recently hosted by Wall Street & Technology on October 15, 2008. With Wall Street data centers straining to keep up with ever expanding capacity demands from all areas of the business, many firms are reaching capacity limits imposed by space and even available power - especially near metropolitan centers. As a result, firms are looking to decrease power consumption and consolidate older servers all while increasing data center capacity to meet the low latency needs of trading desks and the computational needs of risk managers who run complex models and algorithms.

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HPC News from Intel

Visit www.IntelfasterFS.com/HPCNews for news from High Performance on Wall Street.

Sept 17 Webinar: Making the Most of Multicore

Today’s multi-core processors promise to deliver significant performance benefits to the enterprise. As the number of cores per processor increase, application performance is limited by the processor’s memory bandwidth. Within large clusters running many jobs, the Operating System (OS) at times places too many jobs on the same core resulting in memory bandwidth over-subscription.
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Free Live Webcast Oct 15 - Improving Performance and Efficiency in Wall Street’s Data Centers

Good to the Last Watt: Improving Performance and Efficiency in Wall Street’s Data Centers

A Wall Street & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast, sponsored by Intel

With Wall Street data centers straining to keep up with ever expanding capacity demands from all areas of the business, many firms are reaching capacity limits imposed by space and even available power — especially near metropolitan centers. As a result, firms are looking to decrease power consumption and refresh older servers all while increasing data center capacity to meet the low latency needs of trading desks and the computational needs of risk managers who run complex models and algorithms. Now more than ever, firms are focusing on increasing performance per watt, especially with new equipment. They will also quickly replace older servers if they don’t meet today’s performance-per-watt standards.

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Intel Announces New Event - fasterRISK DATA and ANALYTICS

Risk management is the pivotal function in financial services.

Never has it been more topical than in the current issues facing the market and the pressures mount to address the key features of achieving effective management of risk – protecting the balance sheet, client and market interests.

Intel is hosting another event in the series of fasterCITY events: fasterRISK DATA and ANALYTICS. The event will be held on 7 October at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2 Savoy Place, London.

Learn more about the event or register to attend here.

2008 IBM and Intel Virtual Conference Series: IBM System x and BladeCenter for Virtualized Workloads

2008 IBM and Intel Virtual Conference Series
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

For more information and to register, please visit: http://go.virtualtradeshowslive.com/IBM-Intel

Join us for the Virtual Conference Series, brought to you by IBM and Intel, to access:

  • Expert advice on today’s most important technical issues
  • Webcasts from industry luminaries
  • New chat, network, and blog capabilities
  • The premier Virtual Conference Series from the convenience of your desktop

Webcast Schedule:

Wednesday, July 16, 2008:
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern

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