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vPro Expert Center: Where we are, where we’re headed

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:00:26 +0000

In this podcast, we check in with Josh Hilliker, who manages Intel’s online vPro Expert Center, for a community status report. How has the community grown? What topics are people blogging, vlogging, and discussing? How is the content feeding the community — and the community enriching the content? From an online talk radio show, to how-to videos, to deep dives into technical topics in collaborative conversations with sites like Ars Technica, Hilliker is doing everything he can to enliven, enrich, and enlighten the vPro Expert Center’s audience about all things vPro. Things like CIRA, Montevina, Danbury. He’s the Proest of vPros. Find out how you can be, too.

Tags: CIRA, Danbury, Intel, Josh Hilliker, vpro

Intel ISEF 2008: Atlanta Hosts Global Science Fair

Jason Lopez — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:01:57 +0000

In this video podcast, Dr. Oren Shriki, a science teacher at the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy, speaks about Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, taking place in Atlanta, May 11-16. (As excitement builds toward the event’s opening, you can follow along on a dedicated Intel ISEF blog.)

Many of the best young scientists from around the world will attend, selected through regional science fairs for a wide range of skills, from identifying and addressing important scientific challenges or questions to using organized and logical thought to reach conclusions. The participants in Intel ISEF are very likely to be tomorrow’s leaders in technology, medicine and health, agriculture, environmental science and engineering.

During Intel ISEF, their work will be judged by professional scientists who will look for gifted communicators with excellent foundational understanding in specific research and the scientific process.

No matter what the judges decide, however, participants in the annual event will benefit from meeting their peers from around the world, hearing from Nobel laureates and scientists involved in the same kinds of research as theirs, and also creating lasting memories, like those found on the blog of 2004 ISEF alum (and member of a Fourth Award-winning team) Jayson Reggie Obos.

Here’s more information about the science fair as well as a quick look at recent ISEF events, including the 2007 Intel ISEF in Albuquerque, N.M.

Tags: Oren Shriki, Intel, International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF, science fair, environmental science, Nobel laureate

Energy Consumption In The Data Center

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:49 +0000

In this podcast, Intel’s David Jenkins discusses energy efficiency from silicon through the data center. David is the Marketing Manager for Energy Efficient Technologies and Eco-Technology for the Server Platforms Marketing Group of the Intel Corporation. He has been with Intel for 9 years, holding various positions in Technical Marketing, Product Management and Product Marketing relating to servers and server technologies.

Tags: Intel, David Jenkins, Energy Efficient Technologies, Eco-Technology, Server Platforms

45nm and Beyond with Christopher Peters

editor — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:17:47 +0000

Intel is now shipping Xeon processors built via a 45nm manufacturing process. These chips exhibit some of the best performance per watt characteristics on the market. Later in 2008, however, Intel plans to advance its silicon again via a new architecture code-named Nehalem. Chips built with this architecture will show strong single-thread and multi-threaded performance and include an integrated memory controller along with the new QuickPath Interconnect. In this podcast, find out how Intel expects this technology affect performance per watt of the Xeon line.

Tags: Intel, Xeon, 45nm, Nehalem, QuickPath

Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008

Jason Lopez — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:28 +0000

This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, referred to Intel’s efforts broadly as “architecture for life.” If it sounds ambitious, it is.

The speed of change in the software world is daunting. In his own keynote, SVP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel, Anand Chandrasekher, noted that everyone is trying to “unleash the Internet, unwire it, and make it go mobile.” Again, the words sound almost obvious, like common sense. They’re not.

It’s true that Intel specializes in bringing incredible advancements to technology on a tick-tock product development schedule that allows industries to grow and thrive. You can see in the matter of weeks and months that Intel’s efforts go from being rumor to being confirmed technological advances (like the recent Dunnington news) that the world is watching itself change in real time. It’s true that a lot of time at IDF in Shanghai was devoted to presentations on specific technologies, platforms and products.

We heard a lot more about Nehalem, about visual computing, about multithreaded CPUs (And just for fun, compare this detailed look at Intel’s sometimes-inscrutable codenames with a detailed look at those same codenames, from a slightly different perspective). Keynotes from Gelsinger and Chandrasekher, along with Software and Solutions Group General Manager and Intel Vice President Renee James and Intel’s Andrew Chien helped to clarify just how much more mobile our technology will allow us to be.

But always in the backdrop was Shanghai. In this video podcast, Jason Lopez connects the dots between Intel’s efforts to push technology past its limits and Shanghai’s amazing journey to pass its own.

Tags: IDF, Shanghai, Intel developers, Pat Gelsinger, architecture for life, Anand Chandrasekher, unleash the Internet, Dunnington, Nehalem, visual computing, multithreaded CPUs, Renee James, Andrew Chien, Jason Lopez, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

ROI of Data Center Heat Recovery

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some numbers that show potential energy cost savings, amount of heat recovery, and return on investment of Intel IT’s data center heat recovery system.

Related links:
Data Center Heat Recovery (PDF)
Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat (Podcast)

Tags: energy costs, excess heat, Doug Garday, data center cooling, data center power, data center, green data centers

IDF Shanghai: Sights and Sounds

Jason Lopez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:51:47 +0000

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger explains Intel architecture and its wide-ranging capabilities (”architecture for life”), and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher update the crowd on the latest on the mobile Internet devices and their innovative technology, powered by the Intel Atom processor.

This year’s Spring IDF took place in Shanghai.

Tags: Intel, Pat Gelsinger, Dadi Perlmutter, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Atom, Shanghai, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation

Vera Yu — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000

In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company’s light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and “turning camera hardware into software.” Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras “bring the economics and power of Moore’s Law to the camera system.” (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate (”featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam“), the unveiling of Intel’s Tukwila Itanium processor (“Two billion transistors in one processor”), and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel’s next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

Tags: Intel, IDF, Shanghai, mobility, Ren Ng, Refocus Imaging, light field cameras, Mendel Rosenblum, VMware, Pat Gelsinger, flex migration, Classmate PC, Tukwila, Itanium, processor, Moblin, Montevina, Dadi Perlmutter, Fuwa, Adobe Air, Sobey, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:01:10 +0000

There are now possibilities in enterprise computing that have the potential to solve mainstream problems and become widely adopted. These “Emerging Compute Models” are creating a lot of buzz, but also a lot of confusion in the IT community. That’s why this video podcast focuses on Intel’s Emerging Compute Model Forum. Jason Davidson, technical evangelist for the forum, says IT shops are experimenting with new ways to deliver applications and operating systems, but there’s no consensus on the best model, or models, to use.

In this podcast, Davidson and his colleagues Mike Ferron-Jones, marketing manager for Intel’s Emerging Compute Models program, and Chuck Brown, who directs the program, lay out the basic questions IT managers need to ask before choosing new compute models, discuss some of the pros and cons of different models, and preview some Intel and industry developments in the ECM space.

Tags: Intel, Emerging Compute Model, Jason Davidson, Mike Ferron-Jones, Chuck Brown, Thin Client, Rich Client, Terminal Services, Virtual Hosted Desktop, Blade PCs, OS Streaming, Application Streaming, SaaS

Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:20 +0000

Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this two-part podcast, Doug Garday, a data center design engineer with Intel Information Technology, explains energy recycling, a method of reducing the impact of data centers on the environment. Intel IT recommends building systems to recover data center heat into the design of new facilities. Garday explains Intel’s design scheme, and gives tips on calculating your return on investment.

Tags: datacenter, data center cooling, data center power, green data centers

Shanghai IDF Preview, with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger

Michael Johnson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:00:38 +0000

In this podcast, a preview of this year’s Spring IDF 2008, bringing thousands of hardware and software engineers from around the world to Shanghai, China, for a developer forum with a telling theme: “Invent the New Reality.”

Intel Senior Vice President and Digital Enterprise Group co-GM Pat Gelsinger speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about what is going to happen at the event in Shanghai.

Here, Gelsinger talks about the scheduled keynotes and new mobile internet devices based on the Intel Atom processor. Gelsinger shares his fondest memories of IDF over the years.

If you aren’t attending in person, that’s not a problem. Intel blogs will keep the information flowing in both directions with regular updates, photos and video.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: Pat Gelsinger, IDF, IDF2008, Nehalem, WiMAX, Dunnington, Intel Research, Mobile Internet Devices, Intel Atom, Intel

What’s Inside SxSW Interactive?

Paul Lancour — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:17:23 +0000

In this video podcast, we travel to Austin, Texas and the SxSW Interactive festival, to focus on what’s inside people’s computers, and just how much they’re relying on those computers for work, communication and - all-important at the SxSW Festival — creativity.

Intel’s Bryan Rhoads took the opportunity to blog from the conference using a MID. He used the mobile Internet device to bring his blog readers along with him to breakfast, and to snap a picture of two of Intel’s tiniest products - the Atom processor and the silicon core of an Intel Core 2 Duo.

We showed those tiny products to attendees at SxSWi, and found out how some creative folks are interacting with their computers (and what’s inside).

Related Stories:
IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility

Tags: SxSW Interactive, IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility, video podcast, Austin, SXSWi, South by Southwest, SXSW, Intel, Interactive, ultramobile, Atom, Bryan Rhoads, MIDs, mobile Internet device, Core 2 Duo, processor

IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut

Jason Lopez — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:23 +0000

A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies on 45nm technology just like the Penryn line of Core 2 Duo processors, will debut in devices on display at IDF in Shanghai in early April.

It’s no secret that China has come a long way in a short time — from being a country known for manufacturing cheap products for export to being, potentially, the next great IT superpower. National Science Board figures show that in 1994 there were only seven U.S. companies doing research in China. Ten years later, that number had risen to more than 500. Gartner analysts James Popkin and Partha Iyengar wrote, in their 2007 book I.T. and the East, that the world “will witness the birth of a real IT superpower if government restrictions are loosened and the Chinese instinctive talent for entrepreneurialism continues to be encouraged.”

It’s against this backdrop that the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2 and 3, 2008, takes on extra significance. China now supplies the talent, within the country, to conduct advanced research in chip design. At this year’s IDF in Shanghai, Intel will provide an update on new technologies and features that enable devices with better performance, less power, more mobility, and lower cost.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: new processor, ultra-mobile, Intel, mobility computing, UMPC, mobile Internet devices, notebooks, desktops, netbooks, net-tops, Atom, 45nm technology, Penryn, Core 2 Duo, IDF, National Science Board, James Popkin, Partha Iyengar, I.T. and the East, Intel Developer Forum

Intel Science Talent Search: Meet the Top 10 Winners

Jason Lopez — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:44:58 +0000

During the awards dinner, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett joked, after seeing the quality of work from the high school finalists in the the Intel Science Talent Search 2008, that he felt like burning his Ph.D. dissertation. But the depth of research practiced by the finalists is astonishing. The winner of the competition, Shivani Sud of Durham, N.C., says she will continue to develop her study of genomics and the prevention of recurring cancer. PodTech’s Jason Lopez prepared this podcast featuring all ten of the top finishers describing their projects.

Intel Science Talent Search: Out of Their Brilliant Minds

Jason Lopez — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Intel Science Talent Search ends each year with 40 finalists gathering in Washington D.C. at the National Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the Society for Science and the Public. The finalists presented their projects on Sunday March 9th and Monday the 10th in a public exhibit. In this slide show podcast PodTech’s Jason Lopez (interviewer) and Chris Caceres (photographer, editor, and narrator) document four of the presentations. “Mindblowing,” says Chris.

Tags: National Academy of Sciences, Society for Science, Chris Caceres, Intel STS, Science Talent Search

Connectivity Is Key To Development

Jason Lopez — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:50:50 +0000

Broadband connectivity is rapidly becoming a bottleneck issue for economic development around the world. As nations move into knowledge-based economies, an emphasis on information and communication technologies, or ICTs, is critical to addressing poverty and development concerns ranging from health and education to economic and industrial growth. Knowledge is the driving engine for economic growth, social development, cultural enrichment, and for political empowerment, according to Abdul Waheed Kahn, assistant director-general for communication and information at UNESCO. In this video podcast, he makes the case that enabling a knowledge workforce increasingly requires reliable access to information. As Intel’s John Davies explains, more and more, that means bringing broadband to parts of the world where even basic economic development remains a challenge. IICD Communication Coordinator Hilde Eugelink explains how even simple, relatively small investments in education can have a significant impact on communities and economies.

Hilde Eugelink is communication coordinator with the International Institute for Communication and Development and John Davies is vice president of Intel’s sales and marketing group and the general manager of Intel’s World Ahead initiative.

Tags: Broadband connectivity, economic development, ICTs, Abdul Waheed Kahn, UNESCO, Intel, Hilde Eugelink, Hilde Eugelink, John Davies, World Ahead

Intel Science Talent Search: Alternative Energy

Jason Lopez — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:53:39 +0000

The Intel Science Talent Search culminates in Washington, D.C. this weekend. The high school science projects cover areas like engineering, math, physics, medicine and health, environmental science, zoology, and others. The research these students have engaged in is astonishing. Many projects will result in innovations, inventions, new treatments, and further research as students move on to college and into careers. Forty finalists from high schools around the U.S. will attend the 6-day event where as ten winners will be announced. In this podcast, PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with two entrants who’ve developed new energy technologies, one which harnesses the electrical energy of microbes.

See Society for Science and the Public for more.

Tags: Intel, Science Talent Search

ACM Adoption Update

editor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:00:48 +0000

In the last of a three-part series on the growing interest in alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, provides an overview of a study Intel conducted to determine the current status of adoption.

Tags: alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, Intel, Emerging Models Program

Overview of Client-based Models

editor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:02:58 +0000

In the second of a three-part series on the growing interest in alternative client compute models, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, looks at client-based models, including OS and application streaming.

Tags: Mike Ferron-Jones, Intel, Emerging Models, client-based models, application streaming

A Look at Server-based Models

editor — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:00:13 +0000

There’s been a growing interest from cost and security perspective in new ways for providing personal computing services. In the first of a three-part series on the topic, Mike Ferron-Jones, manager of Intel’s Emerging Models Program, looks at various personal computing models based on server-based systems, including terminal services, virtual hosted desktops and blade models. In subsequent podcasts, he will discuss client-based models and the results of a study into the current state of adoption.

Tags: Mike Ferron-Jones, Intel, Emerging Models, virtual hosted desktops, blade models

Intel Atom: Chip Packs Internet in Your Pocket

editor — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:47:38 +0000

Intel’s smallest processor to date, built with it’s tiny 45nm transistors for a new wave of small, mobile Internet devices. The chip gets the name Intel Atom. There’s also Intel Centrino Atom, a combination of chip technologies for low cost, low power and high performing devices designed to bring better Internet experiences to wireless compute devices.

Intel’s Brian Fravel helped to announce Atom’s brand name on Sunday, followed by Bob Duffy and others. Outside of Intel, conversation continues. Most blog mentions highlight the tiny processor’s likeley impact on mobile internet devices. As Joel Hruska writes at Ars Technica, “The Atom architecture is intended to give Intel a foothold in handheld devices that have traditionally been the sole domain of very low-power RISC processors.” Noting that no Atom-enabled products have yet been announced, Yahoo! Tech’s Christopher Null predicts that “you should definitely expect some in the next few months.”

More info at:
Mobility@Intel blog
The Intel Pressroom

Related Stories: Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility

Tags: Intel, 45nm, transistors, mobile Internet devices, Intel Atom, Intel Centrino Atom, Brian Fravel, Bob Duffy, Joel Hruska, Ars Technica, Christopher Null, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility

Intel Science Talent Search

Jason Lopez — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:31:47 +0000

Some of the future leaders in science and research in the U.S. will be recognized next week at the Intel Science Talent Search, where the search for the best high school scientists and their projects will convene in Washington, D.C. In this podcast PodTech’s Jason Lopez speaks with two of the finalists as well as with STS chairman of the judge’s committee Dr. Andrew Yeager.

See Society for Science and the Public for more.

Tags: Science Talent Search, Andrew Yeager

Intel Processing Power at GDC

Michael Johnson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:10:54 +0000

Intel processing power was the name of the game at the 2008 Game Developers Conference. With quad core and 8-core muscle “under the hood,” gamers, developers, and graphics folks alike had a chance to see their games supercharged: faster rendering, MMOs running at ultimate speed, and easier exporting of element into game architecture.

For this video podcast, PodTech spoke with Peter De Lappe, of Softimage (also check out Softimage on the Road) on 3D game development graphics architecture, as well as Ethan Schur of TDVision, developers of Stereoscopic gaming headgear.

By the way, Intel’s smallest-ever processor will soon be given its brand name. This is the processor that Intel’s Denise Bohling says will bring an awesome Internet experience to small mobile devices. Check out her blog and share your guesses on the new brand name, which will be announced on March 3.

Tags: Intel, processing power, 2008 Game Developers Conference, quad core, game architecture, Peter De Lappe, Softimage, Softimage on the Road, Ethan Schur, TDVision, Stereoscopic, gaming headgear

Fall IDF Video Demo - Faster video encoding on Penryn family of processors

editor — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:56 +0000

Darren Yee, Tech Marketing Engineer Intel Software Solutions Group, and I shot a video demo of TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress, a popular video encoder that was optimized for Quad-core and Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions on the Penryn family of Intel processors at the Fall 2007 Intel Developer Forum. The demo in the video show how the same application encoding video on both a Core 2 Duo and a Wolfdale dual core processor in Penryn family. This optimized version resulted in an over 2X improvement over Core 2 Duo using the same application encoding the same video clip. The Core 2 Duo machine encoded the file in 1:06 seconds where the Penryn machine tool only 40 seconds. The primary instruction used in this software optimization was MPSADBW for optimized Sum absolute difference calculations, a common operation used in motion estimation. More information on Penryn and the SSE4 instruction sets can be found at:
www.intel.com/software/penryn

GK3 Video: Alcatel-Lucent and Intel to Collaborate on Developing World Issues

Jason Lopez — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:00:49 +0000

Broadband access for the developing world was a key topic at the Third Global Knowledge Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2007. Attendees there called for action items to to bring underdeveloped nations - including populations sometimes referred to as “the next billion” - into the connected world. Broadband services are an important component in the United Nation’s Millenium Development Goals and have been identified as essential for social and economic development. Without broadband, PCs are useless. Without PCs, broadband is less needed. In this video podcast: broadband provider Alcatel-Lucent and chipmaker Intel forge a partnership at the GK3 Conference to help bring connectivity and PCs to the developing world.

Tags: Broadband access, developing world, Third Global Knowledge Conference, the next billion, Broadband services, Millenium Development Goals, economic development, Alcatel-Lucent, Intel, connectivity