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Intel Lowers Energy Costs for High Performance Computing

06:59 | editor | May 20th, 2008 8:00am |

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 ...

IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation

08:40 | editor | Apr 4th, 2008 |

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 ...
How to: Quick and Easy Video for the iPhone, Apple TV and new iPods

05:42 | Kevin Edwards | Mar 5th, 2008 |

Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way ...
Intel Processing Power at GDC

02:52 | Michael Johnson | Feb 25th, 2008 |

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 ...
Celio REDFLY: A Smartphone's Mobile Companion

17:17 | Brad Baldwin | Jan 1st, 2008 |

When Celio Corporation received a 2008 CES Innovations Award this past November, the news was out that Ceilo was up to something cool. Kirt Bailey, CEO of Celio Corporation — and former Intel Capital director involved with mobility markets, sat down with Brad Baldwin of

AeroVironment: Charging Ahead!

17:18 | Matt Kelly | Jun 4th, 2007 |

AeroVironment is a Monrovia, Calif.-based pioneer in the conception and development of alternative energy vehicles, having helped to develop the solar-powered GM Sunraycer and the all-electric GM Impact, a prototype for General Motors’ EV-1 electric automobile, and others. If you watched the movie, Who Killed the ...

Marching Order: Johnson & Johnson’s new CIO, LaVerne Council - Part 2

13:16 | editor | Apr 4th, 2007 |

Less than one year ago, LaVerne Council joined Johnson & Johnson, charged with crafting a new IT strategy to drive the global enterprise. In part two of this two-part podcast, join host John Gallant and Council, who takes audience questions and shares:
Strategies for helping Johnson & Johnson leverage information ...

Decomatic 12b: Warm Wood, Cool Performance

01:03 | editor | Mar 16th, 2007 |

“The first thing we did when we designed this thing was, we threw everything out, everything that you expect from a computer,” said Jeffrey Stephenson, president of Florida-based Slipperyskip Computers. The Decomatic 12b combines Art Deco-inspired design with state-of-the-art Intel Core 2 Duo processing power. A single fan and hidden ...

Utility Computing - Is It Real?

18:48 | Paul Lancour | Mar 6th, 2007 |

Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of ...

Tier 1's Andy Schroepfer - How the buyer is driving the future of IT Services

13:05 | editor | Jan 30th, 2007 |

In this Thought Leaders podcast, brought to you by SAVVIS, Andy Schroepfer, president & founder of Tier 1 Research, discusses his view on the hosting industry, including the market forecast and segmentation, future growth areas, and how the buyer — not the supplier — is driving the future of ...

IDC's Rona Shuchat - Forecast for the future of IT services

12:35 | editor | Jan 29th, 2007 |

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Rona Shuchat, research director, IDC, shares her unique perspective, gained through the study of the strategic impact of telecommunications and web hosting. She discusses what’s interesting in corporate networking, such as deep packet inspection, the use of web-based portals ...

The End of Software - Timothy Chou

21:08 | Paul Lancour | Jan 22nd, 2007 |

Timothy Chou, author and entrepreneur, is the latest guest in this series of discussions with thought leaders, presented by WebEx. Chou was the president of Oracle’s On-Demand business from 1999 to 2005, the author of the book The End of Software, and he remains an influential figure in ...

Intel's CES Preview and Peek into 2007

17:24 | John Furrier | Jan 5th, 2007 |

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact of new innovations coming from the chipmaker.

Graphics Processing Units and Immersive Visuals

04:26 | Michael Johnson | Nov 13th, 2006 |

On this NVIDIA podcast, we meet David McConville of Elumenati.com, a company specializing in immersive projection experiences for museums and private companies. McConville says that in large projection systems, what used to require several computers and projectors for large dome projection displays can now be done with one ...

PodTech News: Sun Comes Out Swinging with Processor Upgrade

06:23 | Admin | Dec 6th, 2005 |

Sun has come out swinging with a major update of its UltraSparc line of microprocessors. IBM says the chips are narrow in capability and lock users into Sun’s Solaris operating system. But Sun, ever the vigilant problem-solver techie, says the T1 chip is a very lucrative answer to real world ...

NextPage's CEO and President, Darren Lee on Document Management

19:20 | Admin | Nov 16th, 2005 |

I sat down with Darren Lee, NextPage CEO and President in Utah. Darren’s years of entrepreneurial experience bring him rich perspective in his field. As co-founder of Knowlix Darren has become a guru in the document market. We spoke of the many ...