posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on June 30, 2008
Generally speaking, you don’t want to deliver any kind of difficult news to customers, partners, etc. Some of us are lucky enough to talk to folks about the performance and capabilities of our processors, shipping and soon-to-ship. Some of us, however, face a somewhat more challenging situation: explaining how to tap into this performance. I find myself in this situation often, as I frequently talk to external developers about our ongoing research in programming for multi-core and terascale. The discussion typically goes in one of two directions (the relative distribution has changed over time).
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tagged: HPC, multi-core, parallel programming, programming, programming models
posted by Guest Blogger on June 16, 2008
Intel’s Secure Digital Wallet (SDW) research enables the users to manage their credentials for various banks, e-commerce websites, e-mail servers on Intel laptops, desktops and MIDs so that their susceptibility to identity fraud is minimized. Identity fraud is one of the ways by which the criminals on the Internet steal innocent user’s credentials and use it for illegitimate purposes. Criminals can steal credit card numbers to buy things on the Internet and tarnish our credit history. It can take a few days to a few months with lots of pain for the owner of the card to recover from such misuse. In the extreme cases the damage done could be irreparable.
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tagged: identity fraud, Intel, research, security, virtualization
posted by Guest Blogger on June 13, 2008
We have seen regular reports from security vendors of malware becoming increasingly stealthier and polymorphic. Most countermeasures have focused in the area of reactive approaches such as anti-virus scanning, which doesn’t help much here. Intrusion prevention systems help, but are susceptible to attacks themselves - this is a problem since the protection and the attacks are operating in a level playing field! We have been analyzing these types of attacks in our lab and have approached the mitigation of this problem from a different view of protecting the applications in-place such that malware may still execute but will not have any negative impact on the security of the application. What we mean by in-place, is that the applications do not have to change their programming model or use of OS services, instead the program is protected in the environment within which it executes. Given these advanced attacks, in-place protection is important to today’s critical applications!
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tagged: Intel Research, Intel TXT, malware, runtime protection, security, virtualization
posted by Guest Blogger on June 11, 2008
Second Life® and World of Warcraft® are among the most prominent MMOGs. They demand lots of computing power – both from the CPU and Graphics. These demands overload any mobile device of today or near future, even including MIDs. By the time the mobile clients have caught up, the performance requirements for MMOGs will grow higher yet.
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tagged: 3D streaming, 3g, Intel research, MID, wimax
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