The Intel Premier IT Professional site offers a new server efficiency tool that gives IT professionals a snapshot of their current performance and energy efficiency versus what it could be by turning up the number of processor cores and use of virtualization. It also compares their data centers with those of other IPIP members. More>>>
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The Intel Premier IT Professional site offers a new server efficiency tool that gives IT professionals a snapshot of their current performance and energy efficiency versus what it could be by turning up the number of processor cores and use of virtualization. It also compares their data centers with those of other IPIP members. More>>>
Intel is excited to announce the launch of Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 – the first in a series of RAID products designed to deliver significant performance improvements and SAS 2.0 features to Intel-based servers. The Intel “RS2” portfolio of Intel RAID products will allow customers to design higher-performing storage solutions for a diverse set of environments including those based on either mainstream 3Gb/s SAS/SATA or the latest 6Gb/s SAS drives. More>>>
The processor power needed to handle complex calculations is often in short supply. To help address this need, Intel Corporation today announced Progress Thru Processors, a new volunteer computing application built on the Facebook platform that allows people to donate their PCs’ unused processor power to research projects such as Rosetta@home, which uses the additional computing power to help find cures for cancer and other diseases such as HIV and Alzheimer’s. More>>>
In 2007 Red Hat stood on top of the Linux kernel contributor list with room to spare. At 12.7 percent of the Linux kernel contributed by Red Hat (measured in terms of lines changed), IBM was the runner-up at a comparatively distant 5.9 percent. In 2008, Red Hat slipped a little but maintained the top spot (11.2 percent), with Novell making a burst into second place at 8.9 percent. Read more…
Intel is now shipping versions of Intel Compiler Professional Edition 11.1 for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Intel says the products help developers build, analyze and optimize performance of parallel applications for clusters using Intel 32- and 64-bit architectures. Read more…
Since May when Intel first introduced their Graphics Execution Manager after X.Org developers were enraged over Tungsten’s TTM memory manager and its development challenges, we’ve been talking about GEM several times since then.