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Energy / Power measurement wish list

posted by Taylor Kidd (Intel) on September 05, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

I got such a good response from my previous post, that I decided to pose another question to my select and invisible audience. If you could come up with a wish list, what power related measurements would you like to get from the (computer) platform, as well as from the processor itself? Now, let's be a little [...]

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"Live From" SAP TechED: Community Clubhouse Blog

posted by William Lea on September 04, 2008 at The Server Room Blog

I'm getting ready once again to hit the road and this time I'm heading out to SAP TechEd conference next week (Las Vegas, Sept 9th-12th). I want to give a shout out to my colleague at SAP, Craig Cmehil who posted his blog HERE. As Craig mentions, a great place to network at the event is the Community Clubhouse...

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A Decade of Sustainability Leadership

posted by Gary Niekerk on September 04, 2008 at CSR@Intel

I don’t like to be “promotional” in my blog, but today Intel and our employees have something to cheer about. Today we learned that Intel Corporation was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) for the 10th straight year....

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The Mighty Guys of Power

posted by David Stewart (Intel) on September 04, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

More from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Fall 2008 This photo makes me smile in a couple of ways: This is a booth at the Demo Showcase at the most recent IDF, from one of our fantastic corporate partners in the OpenSolaris project The purpose of the booth was to show the deep commitment these guys have [...]

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Why I will never own an electronic book

posted by Clay Breshears (Intel) on September 04, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

Products like the Kindle from Amazon.com and Sony Reader are becoming more readily available, cheaper and more popular. I will never buy one and if you gave me one as a gift I would likely prop up a shorter table leg. If you want to know what I find so repellant about this technology, read this.

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A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 3

posted by Joshua Painter (Intel) on September 04, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

This is the third of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intended to clearly articulate the key challenges and barriers to adoption faced by those looking to engage in HIE. Part 2 examined an architectural approach to address [...]

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Talkin' Mobile Internet Devices, Netbooks, WiMAX at IDF

posted by Ken Kaplan on September 03, 2008 at Mobility@Intel

For me, the Intel Developer Forum is a place to witness real progress, talk with tech demo lab gurus and test drive new devices and services before many of them hit the market. I learn a lot about the engineering...

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Making sense of hypes "du Jour" - Virtualization, Grid and Cloud Computing - Part 2 of 3

posted by Ravi Subramaniam on September 03, 2008 at The Server Room Blog

This is the 2nd in a 3 part series of video blogs that looks at Virtualization, Grids and Cloud computing. Follow this link for the first part: Part 1

The videos explore these concepts first individually and then try to show that taken together the combination is greater than the sum of individual deployments of the...

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Altiris and Intel vPro Use Cases - Part 6 - Competitive Advantage

posted by Joel Smith on September 03, 2008 at Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

NOTE: If you have not read parts 1 through 5, please read these before reading this part as this is a continuation of the story begun in the previous sections. http://juice.altiris.com/book/4687/altiris-and-intel-vpro-use-cases

The Might Modern Marketing IT team has just seen two suspected competitors encroach on the home turf. What...

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LessWatts na Debconf8

posted by Sulamita Garcia on September 03, 2008 at Brasil Digital@Intel

Estive em Mar Del Plata, Argentina, em agosto para a 8a. Debconf, a confêrencia oficial dos desenvolvedores Debian. Neste evento, que acontece todo ano em algum lugar do mundo, os desenvolvedores de uma das mais tradicionais distribuições Linux se reunem...

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Real world experiences with provisioning using a hybrid Activator Utility and Scripts approach

posted by Tal Elgar on September 03, 2008 at Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

As many of you might know or have experienced, relying fully on the default provisioning window where the Management Engine sends 'Hello Packets' to the SCS server is problematic. Problems start arising in the following instances:

  1. The network has multiple domain suffices being allocated as connection specific DNS suffices depending on location and this could potentially...

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群策群力加速虚拟化推广普及

posted by 洪力 on September 02, 2008 at 博客@英特尔中国

一个多月前,我在博客上介绍了我对英特尔全新迅驰2处理器技术的几点看法,今天我想在博客上和大家谈谈另一个广受业界关注的技术——虚拟化。 这虽然是媒体和业界谈了好几年的概念,但作为一个很技术化的事物,它还是让很多朋友心存疑问。常常又朋友这样问我,”别人是怎么使用虚拟化的?”“虚拟化能够为我解决什么问题?”“虚拟化技术成熟了吗?”……这些基本的问题,也是企业管理者最为关注的问题。我想谈谈这些用户最关心的问题,以及英特尔是如何与合作伙伴共同协作,为虚拟化的推广普及保驾护航的。...

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Is DOS the ideal parallel environment - Part II

posted by Asaf Shelly on September 02, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

Part 2 of a four parts article that investigates the parallelism support in design of common operating systems today. This part of the article describes the evolution of UNIX systems in regards to parallel operations.

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Big Stuff from the Big Stage........

posted by Craig Raymond on September 02, 2008 at Mobility@Intel

So……I’ve got some big news today in the world of demos (and things demo related). We did a live piece of video at Intel Headquarters today for a sneak announcement from our friends over at BigStage.com. And your favorite demo...

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Online Communication Challenged No More!

posted by Becky Emmett on September 02, 2008 at Mobility@Intel

Lets face it, unless you have the time to really follow the technology space closely, its likely you have been left behind on at least one of the more recent online communication tools. Keeping up on texting to IM to...

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Todd - Toadster Part 2 - One year later and still blogging

posted by Josh Hilliker on September 01, 2008 at Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

Last week I had an opportunity to drive with Todd Christ, one of the first folks to join the vPro Expert Center. He has since moved on to servers & working on Data Center space - check his blog. Dialing in your Datacenter - using Intel Dynamic Power Datacenter Manager


Good news is he's...

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Can you see video's in the blogs?

posted by Josh Hilliker on September 01, 2008 at Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

Part of my focus is to ensure that the community can see all the data and have a good experience on the site, therefore when I received an email this week saying that folks couldn't see the video's embedded in blogs I thought it best to respond here on the site.

If you are having any...

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SCS 5.0 - Setup and Configuration version 5.0 - the latest and greatest

posted by Tal Elgar on September 01, 2008 at Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

SCS 5.0 is the latest version of the Intel Setup and Configuration Service. This new version boasts a number of fundamental and exciting additions to the world of vPro:

  1. You can enjoy the benefits of Active Directory Integration without the need to extend the Active Directory Schema!
  2. You can use Windows Authentication to communicate with the...

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A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 2

posted by Joshua Painter (Intel) on August 29, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

This is the second of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intended to clearly articulate the key challenges and barriers to adoption faced by those looking to engage in HIE. Part 2 will examine an architectural approach to [...]

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IDF Concurrency panel follow up -- performance fundamentals matter

posted by Michael Wrinn (Intel) on August 29, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

Our IDF panel (officially, the Academic Community Multi-core Programming Roundable) brought some lively points of view, and at least one recurrent theme. First, the points of view: Dan Garcia gave a quick overview of the UC Berkeley approach; they really *do* get the new kids coding a version of MapReduce - in the first school term. [...]

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Virtualization and Legacy Replacement - where there's risc there is risk

posted by Ken Lloyd on August 29, 2008 at The Server Room Blog

I recently spoke with a large financial customer that has several hundred sparc boxes ( mostly inherited from an acquisiton). These systems are a challenge in that they are aging - some running out of available maintenance, slow, old, and the expertise in the company just doesn't extend to this architecture.

They were also very proud of...

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Mass Animation Misunderstanding

posted by Ken Kaplan on August 29, 2008 at Technology@Intel

Note: I am posting this for John Cooney, Intel’s Program Manager for Mass Animation Earlier this month, Intel announced the Mass Animation project at SIGGRAPH. The project will enable animators around the world to collaborate via Facebook on a 5-minute,...

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Vertical Applications of a SOA "soft appliance"

posted by Joseph Natoli (Intel) on August 29, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

So far I have been posting the last week or so about how to apply a SOA "soft appliance" to overall scenarios like Federated SOA, SaaS, and Mainframe deployments.  XML performance acceleration, in-line / on-the-wire security processing, and manageability optimization also has direct application to specific vertical markets like healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing. We [...]

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A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange

posted by Joshua Painter (Intel) on August 29, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

This is the first of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intend to clearly articulate the key challenges and barriers to adoption faced by those looking to engage in HIE. Part 2 will examine an architectural approach to [...]

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Intel® Summary Statistics Library: how to detect outliers in datasets?

posted by Dmitry Kabaev (Intel) on August 29, 2008 at Intel Software Network Blogs

Earlier I computed various statistical estimates like mean or variance-covariance matrix using Intel® Summary Statistics Library. In those cases I knew for sure that my datasets did not contain “bad” observations (points which do not belong to the distribution which I observed) or outliers. However, in some cases we need to deal with datasets which [...]

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