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Looking for some career advice

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:02:32 GMT

Hi Jacqui!

Thanks for you interest in Intel! We post our offerings for students at Jobs at Intel. You can search for openings there. I hope you would be able to find opportunity that fits your interest. Good luck!

can't go to setup

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:33:47 GMT

Thanks for the question! I would suggest you posting it in the Desktop Boards Support Community. Folks there should be better equiped to help you.

Who should start the ‘data security revolution’?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:36:30 GMT

After posting the video and opinion paper It is Time for a Data Security Revolution! a reader posed a simple yet deep question. GroogFish, in the YouTube video comments asked ...who is supposed to start this "revolution"? As my response is a bit lengthy for the comments section of YouTube, I am posting here.

I believe everyone has a role to play and a responsibility to support steps for securing data. It is, after all, OUR information. To succeed, a data security revolution must be a community effort resulting in the development of an entire ecosystem, with standards, communication, and an open architecture.

Consumer demands bring attention to the problem and ultimately will drive features. Regulatory bodies, dare I submit, can enact requirements which mandate changes to technology capabilities. Hardware and firmware vendors are important in order to support new architectures. Data management and processing organizations must be on-board to insure interfaces and storage formats of data are compatible. Operating system and application writers are key players to utilize and enforce such controls at the host system and repository levels. They develop the products which engage the user.

The information security communities are the expert advocates. They must analyze the situation, stimulate conversations, guide changes, and engage in value assessment discussions to become the sharpened spearhead which leads the charge forward. Traditional and social news media should also contribute to overall education and public awareness. They must go beyond just reporting the breaches, failures, and losses. We are at risk of becoming numb at all the stories, without a meaningful reference point or perspectives of significance which show how the situation can change. The public must be better informed to the root problem, the industry opportunities, and the dark truth of where apathy will lead.

I would like to see a consortium formed with major players and international standards bodies to establish a framework for development. Government, privacy, commercial, academia, technology, and security representatives should be represented at the very least. Critical mass with the aforementioned groups must be established before enough traction motivates a commitment on behalf of lead players to allocate initial resources. Alternatively, assertive academic bodies could work together and take a first step by developing recommended standards, architectures, and proof-of-concept systems.

Although some pieces to the puzzle are out there, we don’t even know what the picture is supposed to look like and no guarantees the available parts will or should be brought together. Boldly, I believe we must enforce a tabula rasa to nurture a fresh start, otherwise risk poisoning from our natural presumptions of what we believe we know. It may not be the most popular sentiment, but adopting refined solutions and attempting to bolt them together is a mistake. Instead, we take the learned and proven principles of those solutions and integrate them at a strategic level to eventually lead us to workable end solutions.

Opinion paper: It is Time for a Data Security Revolution!

It is Time for a Data Security Revolution!

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:44:26 GMT

Is Cloud computing really cheap ?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:26:53 GMT

Cloud computing buzz is on the raise. Cost reduction is one of the perceived benefits of this capability. But is it really that cheap?

Yes, it's a great solution for small companies with Web-based operations, which don't have to plan for peak demand now - see "Animoto's Facebook scale-up" as an example.

We've looked into applicability of such Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution for Intel Silicon design environment, and I may blog in the future on some of the findings from this study.

At Intel, we utilize internal distributed grid of over 60,000 compute servers to run various jobs at over 80% utilization. The idea was to consider an external IaaS capacity as an extension to accommodate possible peak demands.

We've built a proof-of-concept environment using one of the major IaaS clouds. The applications we are interested in are mostly single-threaded, and are CPU bounded. We found that per-core performance of the external cloud instances is significantly lower compared to our internal compute servers. As a result, we'd need 3x-4x more instances in the cloud as opposed to the internal deployment to achieve the same throughput. The TCO for such use (calculated based on July'2009 pricing) would be significantly higher in the cloud, this is one of the reasons for us stepping back at this point in time.

I'll talk more about this study on the Cloud Computing Summit in Israel next week.

Cloud vendors - bring the performance up and the cost down, and we may come back!

Are you already leveraging external cloud capabilities to complement your computing infrastructure? What is your experience?

Till the next post,

Gregory Touretsky

Reducing Energy Use in Offices to Increase IT Sustainability

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:22:07 GMT

i want to know if my laptop can run Modern Warfare 2?

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:15:03 GMT

Possibly, but unlikely. If it does it will be on the lowest settings, and even then it most probably won't be smooth

s5000psl and e5430 processor

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:31:15 GMT

Hi there,

Basically, from your board pba number D44771-804, it appears that you have a non-refresh board - S5000PSLSATA. The non-refresh is not meant to work with 45nm processors.

Usually the refresh board has a letter 'R' at the end of the sku code.

Even upgrading the bios, it wont make it work

From the website below:
Website: http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ParentRadio=All&ProcFam=0&SearchKey=5410

The cpu E5430 is a 45 nm manufacturing technology as all the Xeon 5410 are 45 nm. So definitely it wont work, sometimes if it works, you are left with an error message in the bios '19A'.

Other board that works with the 45 nm are:
Website: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-028540.htm

Your board is not on the list.

If you would like a compatible cpu, check from the list below.
Website: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-022346.htm
Note: you need to get a 65 nm cpu.

Kind Regards,
Aryan

s5000psl and e5430 processor

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:29:44 GMT

Hi there,

Basically, from your board pba number D44771-804, it appears that you have a non-refresh board - S5000PSLSATA. The non-refresh is not meant to work with 45nm processors.

Usually the refresh board has a letter 'R' at the end of the sku code.

Even upgrading the bios, it wont make it work

From the website below:
Website: http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ParentRadio=All&ProcFam=0&SearchKey=5410

The cpu E5430 is a 45 nm manufacturing technology as all the Xeon 5410 are 45 nm. So definitely it wont work, sometimes if it works, you are left with an error message in the bios '19A'.

Other board that works with the 45 nm are:
Website: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-028540.htm

Your board is not on the list.

If you would like a compatible cpu, check from the list below.
Website: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-022346.htm
Note: you need to get a 65 nm cpu.

Kind Regards,
Aryan

IT Can’t Lead Corporate Sustainability Efforts but Sure Can Help

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:24:30 GMT

I’ve been hearing about green IT for a while now and personally thought it was a lot more hype than true business value creation. I was surprised coming over to the IT side to see a good deal of focus being applied to Sustainability. A couple months ago, I asked a peer of mine working on Intel IT sustainability a simple, yet challenging question.

“Why should an IT manager or CIO bombarded with a 1,000 other things to think/worry about, care about sustainability? How will it help them advance their careers or bring more IT value to the business.”

The answers I got from her plus a recent listing from Gartner of “IT for Green” as Number 4 on a Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010, helped shape my thinking and the title for this blog.

Keep the Business Running/Legal. As an ongoing activity, IT must always look at industry and regulatory trends to proactively plan for an ever-changing compliance landscape. Many European Union countries and the US Environmental Protection Agency are creating regulations that affect the application of information technology.
Green IT initiatives can impact ROI and Profitability. In addition to the benefits of electricity savings, the proper application of technology (like proactive server refresh, facility re-use) can affect land use, avoidance of new construction, boost asset utilization … all of which assist in improving corporate sustainability.
Green IT initiatives can also reduce operational costs. I recently learned about the broad video conferencing capabilities that Intel IT has enabled to help employees collaborate across time zones and countries. This capability has encouraged less travel for routine purposes avoiding unnecessary travel expense for employees delivering a dramatic multi-million dollar savings impact this current year.

The three reasons listed above are prudent IT operational activities and doing them represent best IT practices that have a solid impact on creating business value. Not doing them could actually have detrimental impacts to an IT career. Intel IT’s recent data center strategy identified that not only is proactive server refresh the biggest driver of financial value but also in the reduction of IT’s CO2 footprint. Another area where our business strategy benefited IT Sustainability was in our transition from a desktop driven PC fleet to a mobile PC fleet that boosted employee productivity while employing more energy efficient solutions.

However, IT sustainability also help serve as an example for corporate responsibility building brand, influence product purchase with an increased focus on energy efficiency and influence the improvement of business processes with a mind toward efficiency and elimination of redundancy and waste.

Gartner's Top 10 list reinforces these sentiments where they identify that "IT can enable many green initiatives. The use of IT, particularly among the white collar staff, can greatly enhance an enterprise’s green credentials. Common green initiatives include the use of e-documents, reducing travel and teleworking. IT can also provide the analytic tools that others in the enterprise may use to reduce energy consumption in the transportation of goods or other carbon management activities.”

So while IT Sustainability may not be your most important IT or CIO priority, investing with an eye toward this topic is wise and is likely aligned with many other priorities you and your peers are already doing.

For us inside Intel IT, it is now clearer to me why Intel IT maintains an IT Sustainability Program that supports Intel’s Corporate Sustainability initiative.

Intel IT’s proof of concept efforts in data center cooling innovation earned us recognition as one of the 2009 Green 15 by Infoworld.com. Together with Intel’s business leaders, our operational and investment efforts have helped Intel achieve a top 5 ranking as a green company by Newsweek.

Learn more about Intel IT’s lessons learned and best practices here.

Chris (twitter)