The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with it. That’s where Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura has some good news to share, in this podcast speaking with The Register’s Tim Phillips. Says Krishnapura, “In the past, that power relationship has existed. But with Intel’s core microarchitecture platform, the power holds constant while performance climbs.”
Intel is working to improve the performance-per-watt characteristics of HPC systems. The effort is important, as Xeon-based servers dominate the Top 500 supercomputers list and the clusters used by businesses for their most demanding jobs.
Fist of all, Intel’s throughput-per-rack measurement helps illustrate the point when Intel 45nm-based quad-core processors run at similar power levels as dual-core processors, while offering twice the number of processing cores per server. Add Intel’s switch to higher density memory like 4GB memory modules instead of 2GB modules — the 4GB run at similar power envelope — and it’s clear where Intel is holding a fairly stable power envelope and still seen what Krishnapura calls, “a substantial performance increase, year after ...
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 ...
Intel is launching an eight-year process of data center consolidation, as Brently Davis, communications and stakeholder manager, blogs on IT@Intel. In this video podcast, he discusses the benefits — reducing costs, improving server and storage utilization], creating higher density & more energy-efficient data centers — and challenges, like ...
Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.
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In technology development, most researcher “to-do lists” do not have an item that says something like: “invent society-changing technology.” Mostly, to-do lists contain step-by-step improvements. But we are reminded that the step-by-step can be as important as any monumental leap. Intel says its latest chip release, code-named “Weybridge,” reduces costs, ...
Developing more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that enable Americans to use less petroleum is the mission of the FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program, which supports the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. According to Ed Wall, ...
Sunarc has invested more than $4.5 million in its On-Demand Insulation & Shade System for commercial greenhouse growers. The company claims its system dramatically lowers energy costs and improves crop yield and quality. PodTech’s Rio Pesino spoke with Sunarc President and CEO Len April at the Cleantech Venture Forum ...
You may have seen them on the roadways of North America: Natural Gas Vehicles or NGVs. They look like any other vehicle. The difference is, NGVs operate on natural gas as opposed to the fuel we typically pump into our vehicles’ tanks. While increasing numbers of environmentally-sensitive consumers ...
In a conversation with Guy Kawasaki about Small is the New Big, Seth Godin compares the role of storytelling and customer dialogue in marketing.
A great example of story telling and customer dialogue is Tesla Motors’s blog entry by Elon Musk, eBay co-founder, CEO of SpaceX, and Tesla ...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2006 (PodTech News) The chipmaker Intel says its vPro platform–like its Centrino wireless brand for laptops–is designed to save businesses energy costs by improving efficiency and performance in fleets of desktop PCs. Intel chief Paul Otellini compared vPro to the company’s successful wireless mobile chip ...
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