The Server Room Blog

Live From IDF -- Paul Ottelini on Servers

william.h.lea@intel.com — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:37:00 GMT

Take a look at this video segment from Paul Ottelini's keynote today at IDF. Very interesting on where the technology is headed and what the consumer wishes technology could do for them. Very cool stuff......

Intel & HP Partner on World's Best 4-Socket TPC-C Benchmark

william.h.lea@intel.com — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:14:53 GMT

IDF SF08-HP and Intel announced collaboration on the world's best 4-socket TPC-C benchmark result of >634K transactions/min. Check out the video with Aaron Spurlock (HP) and Noe Garcia (Intel)discussing the HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server with Intel XEON 7400-series (Dunnington) processors. Let us know what you think.

Blog Talk Radio-Denver IPIP Wrap-Up Show-Listen Now

william.h.lea@intel.com — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:22:54 GMT

Hey, just a heads up to all the Blog Talk Radio fans out there. Hank Lea & Josh Hilliker were out in Denver for the Intel Premier IT Professional (IPIP) Event. The Blog Talk Radio Wrap-Up show is HERE, including a few key interviews with Citrix, Sun & Intel.

We will also be attending the next event in Portland, September 11th as well. Click the link for event details and registration. See you there!

Sun and Intel Announce Threading Building Blocks now Supported on Solaris, Sun Studio

william.h.lea@intel.com — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:06:24 GMT

As part of the Sun Microsystems and Intel alliance, the two companies have collaborated to bring open source Threading Building Blocks (TBB) support to the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Sun Studio software toolchain. Check out the SUN Blog for additional information. Click the video below for a short interview with Deepanker Bairagi, Principal Engineer for the Sun Studio.

Software parallelism can unleash the processing power that the newer multi-core architectures provide, including the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors. For developers, multithreading offers a software parallelism model, but many existing solutions require a lot of low-level coding. Threading Building Blocks offers a rich approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program by offering higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanism for performance and scalability.

The Solaris OS is able to take advantage of multicore architectures, including the Intel Architecture, with features such as a lightweight processes (LWPs), load-balancing across cores, and processor affinities. Sun Studio software offers a complete integrated toolchain for Solaris and Linux platforms, including parallelizing compilers, performance and thread analysis tools, memory and code debuggers, NetBeans-based Integrated Development Environment, and more.

Combined with Threading Building Blocks, developers for the Solaris platform now have a fully loaded toolbox that simplifies the development of optimized multithreaded applications for multi-core Intel processors. Click here to learn more about Threading Building Blocks and optimizing performance for multi-core processors.

Would like to hear from the community on how you see this impacting the next generation of software development for Solaris running on Intel Architecture.

Intel & VMware-World's First Flex Migration Demo

william.h.lea@intel.com — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:19:48 GMT

After coming back from IDF a couple weeks ago, I've had some time to go through the mountains of online material, presentations mostly and a few interesting videos. This video is from Pat Gelsinger's keynote address and features Mendel Rosenblum from VMware. Pat and Mendel discuss new technologies in virtualization and demonstrate "Flex Migration", just hit the play button below to view...

This is very interesting for those IT shops with multiple legacy platforms and new generation servers coming online. We will have more discussion on this topic in the future, and so in the meantime, let us know if you have questions on how this could benefit your datacenter.