Intel Chip Chat: Recent Episodes
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Intel Chip Chat is a recurring podcast series of informal interviews with some of the brightest minds in the industry, striving to bring listeners closer to the innovations and inspirations of the people shaping the future of computing, and in the process share a little bit about the technologists themselves.
Up to 56 cores and 112 threads on a single chip – that’s the all-new Intel® Xeon® W processor, codenamed Sapphire Rapids. Made for workstations that are hungry for data, Xeon W is the high-end computing foundation that today’s professionals require for the future of computing. Learn more from Jonathan Patton, Workstation Product Marketing Engineer, in this Talking Tech adapted for the Chip Chat podcast.Notices & DisclaimersPerformance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndexIntel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Intel Evo is the result of real research on real people to make better laptops for the real world. Josh Newman, VP and GM of Client Product Marketing at Intel, talks about the updated Intel Evo specification that includes intelligent collaboration features and Intel Unison for a seamless multidevice experience between phone and PC, all without compromises to mobile performance.Notices & DisclaimersPerformance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndexIntel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Dan Rogers, Senior Director of Intel’s Performance Marketing Lab, is on Talking Tech for the launch of the entire 13th Gen Intel Core processor (codenamed Raptor Lake) desktop and mobile family. The Core i9-13980HX, a powerhouse processor for laptops,is among Rogers’ favorites with a 5.6 GHz frequency and 24 cores and 32 threads. Stay tuned to see what PC makers are doing with Raptor Lake.Notices & Disclaimers Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Intel® Arc™ is the world’s first GPU with hardware-accelerated encoding for AV1, the next-gen and royalty-free video codec. To tell us more about the importance of AV1 and what it means for the future of video, we’re joined by Matt Frost, the Chairman of the Board at the Alliance for Open Media, and Director of Product Management at Google.
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In this special Chip Chat crossover with Talking Tech, we go in depth with two of the lead engineers responsible for 12th Gen Intel Core processors. Chief architect Arik Gihon and platform program manager Tomer Sasson join our virtual CES 2022 set remotely from Israel to provide behind-the-scenes perspective on what it took to develop the innovative Alder Lake architecture. Learn about how they scaled a versatile design from thin and light devices to ultra-powerful desktops, combined P-cores and E-cores with the Intel Thread Director, and led the industry's adoption of both DDR5 and PCI Express 5 technology — all during a global pandemic.
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This is the third episode in our three-part series on Intel Evo. Our guest is Sudha Ganesh, VP of Client Platform Experience at Intel, who for the past few years has devoted her time to redefining the metrics for PCs that deliver exceptional experiences to users.
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This is the second of a three-part series talking about Intel Evo, a designation earned by some of the best laptops on the market today. Here we hear from Wendy March, a principal engineer and research director at Intel, about what goes into designing future generations of Intel Evo PCs -- and spoiler alert, our conversation did not mention any core count or clock speeds! The teams that March works with looks at everything that goes on around the PC, particularly the user and environment.
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This is the first of a three-part series talking about Intel Evo, a designation earned by some of the best laptops on the market today. You may have seen the Intel Evo badge on some of the laptops you’re considering, or perhaps you already have one. We’ll be diving deeper into the origins of Intel Evo and what it means for the future of portable PCs. Today, we’re kicking off the series with Josh Newman, Intel’s VP and GM of Mobile Innovation, with an overview on the vision behind Intel Evo.
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11th Gen is here for power users on-the-go. The latest 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" H-series CPU is made for gamers and creators looking for big desktop-class power packed into sleek, portable laptops. We talk to Kim Algstam, Director of the Enthusiast Laptop & Innovation Team at Intel, about 11th Gen H-series processors with to 8 cores on the 10nm SuperFin process, integrated graphics, PCIe Gen 4, Thunderbolt 4, WiFi 6E, 5GHz Turbo on multiple cores -- and that there are already over 1 million of these on their way across 80 different laptop designs.
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We have lift-off! 11th Gen Core desktop processors codenamed "Rocket Lake" have officially launched with retail availability starting at the end of March. We talk to Marcus Kennedy, General Manager of the Gaming & eSports Segment at Intel, about what got us into gaming, how many frames per second are enough, and of course, what 11th Gen Core brings to the desktop PC.
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You've heard of hot-rodding cars, which is to modify a vehicle to make it faster or more powerful, but did you know that you can do the same with computer chips? It's called overclocking, and Intel Chip Chat host Marcus Yam talks to Dan Ragland, Principal Engineer in Intel’s Performance Tuning and Overclocking Architecture team, about what it takes to 'hot-rod' your PC.
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Intel Chip Chat returns in 2021 with a new focus, new format and new host. Join technology evangelist Marcus Yam and a rotating cast of industry experts who will unpack and explain technical topics in easy-to-understand terms.
Andy Rudoff, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, talks with host Allyson Klein about Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem) and the work done with software vendors to harness the power of the new technology, especially when it comes to database management and recovery.
Rudoff goes into detail about how Optane PMem represents a new tier between memory and storage that allows giant databases to be hosted across fewer servers. He also discusses the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK)—a growing collection of libraries and tools tuned and validated on both Linux and Windows, and the Persistent Memory Programming book—a complete guide for developers that delivers comprehensive information with detailed code examples.
Both the development kit and the book can be found at: https://pmem.io/
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Balaji Iyer, Principal of Product Management at Intel, joins Chip Chat with host Allyson Klein to talk about his work with various Intel partners to develop proof-of-concept projects that showcase the value of Intel technology.
Balaji and Allyson talk in-depth about why bfloat16 capability in Intel® Deep Learning Boost with 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable marks an important evolution for AI on general purpose processors. Discussing how Intel optimized TensorFlow, BERT, PyTorch and other AI workloads, Balaji highlights how these advancements will have substantial impacts to businesses in a variety of fields.
For more information, visit intel.com/ai.
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Asha Keddy, Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Next Generation and Standards at Intel, joins Chip Chat to talk about her work to help drive the definition and delivery of 5G networks.
Keddy and her team "work to define what is next" in three main areas: contributing to standards and policies defined by governments and international consortia, accelerating the development of Intel technologies supporting those standards, and catalyzing future development by assessing current use of these technologies to uncover unfulfilled needs. Keddy additionally serves as Intel's 5G Executive Sponsor, serves on the boards of CTIA and 5G Americas, and is a former board member of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
In this interview, Keddy and host Allyson Klein discuss the wide-ranging industry investments that will be required to fully realize 5G and future networking standards. Keddy first highlights the importance of industry standards to accelerating innovation, ensuring interoperability, and enabling scale. Keddy then provides an overview of the ongoing work within the industry to deliver 5G and realize what Keddy calls an "exceptionally ambitious" vision of a "fully connected, intelligent society." Keddy additionally speaks to Intel's extensive contributions to enabling 5G, including technologies from Intel's unmatched portfolio for 5G infrastructure that make Intel the foundation of "how networks are deployed, run, and used." Finally, Keddy reports on how recent usage trends and policy developments are influencing the worldwide roll-out of 5G and forecasts future opportunities that the industry can address atop the foundation of 5G.
For more information on Intel's enablement of 5G, follow Keddy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ashakeddy and explore https://intel.com/5G.
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Chip Chat host Allyson Klein welcomes Bill Giard, CTO of Digital Transformation and Scaled Solutions - Intel Data Platforms Group, for a discussion of business continuity through the surge in remote work stemming from the 2020 COVID pandemic response.
This episode of Chip Chat explores the role of Intel's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and multicloud solutions in support of offsite work and remote workforce productivity for our enterprise customers. Giard touches on the benefits of embracing solutions that support security, accessibility and scalability for increasingly distributed workforces.
Today’s episode also details the challenges of aligning increased demand for public cloud solutions with our partners' datacenter capability in support of remote access & remote productivity. The first half of 2020 showed that today's enterprise needs to be even more agile than before, and that starts with modern infrastructure.
Learn more: https://www.intel.com/selectsolutions
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Rajesh Gadiyar, Vice President for the Data Platforms Group and Chief Technology Officer for the Network Platforms Group at Intel, joins Chip Chat for a primer on cloud native network functions.
Gadiyar helps to define and drive the next generation architectures, including key software elements, that are needed for future networks. In this interview, Gadiyar and host Allyson Klein discuss the need for cloud-native approaches in order to fully deliver new paradigms like 5G and edge computing. Gadiyar describes cloud native as "an approach to building and running applications and services that utilizes the best practices of the cloud computing delivery model" and as the natural the next phase of the industry's network transformation journey. Though significant progress has been made in virtualizing many key applications across the network infrastructure, cloud native approaches will be key to addressing customer needs such as further infrastructure disaggregation, automation and automated application lifecycle management, and composable applications.
Gadiyar highlights benefits to cloud-native approaches, such as application agility and flexibility, accelerated development, and modularity that enables scale, as well as key Intel investments in hardware platforms, software platforms, and open source initiatives that are enabling the delivery of cloud native. Finally, Gadiyar shares excitement for the roll-out of 5G in the coming months and points to several key technical principles such as disaggregation, automation, scalability, resiliency and reliability, and a new software lifecycle, that can serve as guideposts to customers on their cloud native journeys.
For more on Intel's enablement of cloud native approaches, please visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com and follow Gadiyar on Twitter at https://twiter.com/rgadiyar.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Dr. Roland Eils, the founding director of the BIH Digital Health Center of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), talks with host Allyson Klein about their advanced COVID-19 cell sequencing research and how critical technology is in delivering timely results within the medical industry.
During their talk, Dr. Eils explains BIH’s process in collecting COVID-19 samples from infected patients and establishing a pipeline through molecular categorization by massive genome sequencing. This large amount of data is used to help predict infected patients’ progression and recommend medical solutions. Intel’s Select Solution architecture tailored to BIH’s workload requirements has accelerated patient research and enabled quicker medical diagnostics. The two also discuss the instrumental role of the IT industry in integrating and processing large amounts of critical medical data. Finally, Dr. Eils describe the institute’s future plans to research the after-recovery effects of COVID-19 patients with international clinical data.
To learn more about the Berlin Institute of Health and their project on COVID-19 cell sequencing, visit https://www.bihealth.org/en/.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Lisa Spelman, VP & GM of Intel Xeon Products and Data Center Marketing, talks with host Allyson Klein about the new 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor for today’s AI-infused, data-intensive digital services.
Designed for deep learning, VM density, in-memory database and analytics-intensive cloud services, the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor is the first mainstream general-purpose CPU with built in bfloat16 instructions to make AI training more widely deployable for image classification, speech recognition, language modeling and other applications.
Spelman also talks about the new Intel Stratix® 10 NX, Intel’s first AI-optimized FPGA for high-throughput, low-latency tasks such as natural language processing and financial fraud detection. She expands on advanced memory capabilities from the new Intel Optane™ persistent memory 200 series and the Intel SSD D7-P5500 and P5600, which are designed to support the intense IO requirements of AI and analytics.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Bryce Olson, Global Marketing Director of Health and Life Sciences Group, talks with host Allyson Klein about the changing world we live in due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how technology is playing a greater role in health services.
The two discuss Intel and Medical Informatics Corporation’s new Scale to Serve Program to help hospitals rapidly install and scale MIC’s Sickbay™ platform. The platform is designed to help hospitals rapidly expand intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity and create more efficient care of the most critical patients while also reducing risk of COVID-19 exposure for critical care providers who are at a higher risk of exposure due to the nature of their work. Hospitals interested in access can apply for the program on the MIC website: https://sickbay.michealthcare.com/scaletoserve
Learn more about the Serve to Scale program: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-mic-announce-scale-serve-program-rapidly-expand-remote-icus-100-us-hospitals/
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Ronnie Vasishta, Vice President and General Manager for the Networking and Configurable Logic Division at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss the critical role of programmable solutions in the delivery of network infrastructure for 5G.
Vasishta joined Intel with the acquisition of eASIC in 2018 and is responsible both for running eASIC within Intel and for the wireline and wireless networking business for Intel's programmable solutions. In this interview, Vasishta and host Allyson Klein dive deep on technologies that are part of what Vasishta calls the "custom logic continuum." Vasishta talks about "structured ASICs," an intermediary between FPGAs and true ASICs with lower unit-cost and power consumption than FPGAs but faster time-to-market and lower engineering cost than true ASICs. Additionally, Vasishta highlights next-generation Intel eASIC code-named Diamond Mesa. Drawing upon generations of customer learning from both Intel and eASIC, Diamond Mesa is already seeing early adoption in 5G RAN applications by some of the same customers who helped contribute to the product's definition. Finally, Vasishta looks ahead to the future of programmable solutions and how Intel will continue to deliver to continuously evolving and changing market requirements.
For more information on Diamond Mesa and other Intel programmable devices, please visit https://intel.com/easic and https://intel.com/fpga.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Intel CIO Archie Deskus talks with host Allyson Klein about how Intel was able to successfully pivot its workforce while maintaining business operations. Because Intel created a Pandemic Leadership Team (PLT) following the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003, there was some preparation for half of all employees work remotely, but the speed and severity of this pandemic forced the company to innovate rapidly.
The two discuss why Intel needed to make numerous changes across manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing, human resources and finance while supporting 100,000 remote workers worldwide and go into further details about how Intel IT was able to double VPN capacity over a single weekend.
Read more about how Intel transitioned to support 100,000 remote workers in Archie’s blog on the IT Peer Network: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/how-intel-it-transitioned-to-supporting-100000-remote-workers/ Find more about Intel’s best practices for IT organizations at intel.com/it, and follow Archie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/archiedeskus.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Vikas Bhatia, Head of Product for Microsoft Azure Confidential Computing, talks with host Allyson Klein about the role of Azure and Intel SGX in protecting applications and data during use in the public cloud.
Azure Confidential Computing is a broad Microsoft initiative to protect applications and data while in use in the public cloud and is enabled by Intel SGX. Vikas describes exciting recent developments in confidential computing, including the Confidential Computing Consortium, the general availability announcement of Intel SGX-based VMs, and various use cases that customers are targeting with confidential computing.
To learn more about Azure Confidential Computing with Intel SGX-based VMs, visit http://aka.ms/azurecc or follow @azure on Twitter.
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Bob Ghaffari, General Manager for the Enterprise and Cloud Networking Division at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss the evolution of networks to meet the needs of the enterprise network edge.
Ghaffari works with customers and partners to ensure that Intel has the right solutions for the cloud and enterprise as networks continue to be virtualized and transformed. In this interview, Ghaffari and host Allyson Klein talk about how Intel is delivering new solutions and architectures to help customers access and move the data they need in an increasingly hybrid- and multi-cloud world. Ghaffari provides an overview of some of the key technologies in Intel's silicon foundation for the edge, such as Intel® Xeon® D processors, Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT), and the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). Ghaffari additionally highlights OpenNESS (Open Network Edge Services Software) as a way for customers to deploy edge services more rapidly, especially in a multi-cloud environment. Finally, Ghaffari speaks to trends he's seeing in edge deployments and the unique challenges involved in securing the enterprise network edge.
For more information on Intel technologies to enable a secure enterprise network edge, please visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com/ and follow Ghaffari on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bobghaffari.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, High Performance Computing Vice President and General Manager Trish Damkroger talks with host Allyson Klein about HPC’s relevance in today’s society, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. The podcast covers how Intel’s HPC solutions offer computing resources to researchers and scientists to better understand the underlying characteristics of COVID-19, to help limit the spread of the virus, and to advance the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Today’s episode also discusses various HPC workloads that are being used and Trish’s observations on the HPC community’s positive responses and contributions.
To learn more about HPC features and capabilities, visit intel.com/HPC. If you’d like to personally engage with Trish Damkroger, visit her Twitter account at https://twitter.com/trish_damkroger.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Alex Quach, Vice President and General Manager of the Wireline and Wireless Core Network Division at Intel, updates on his team’s work to deliver the best platform solutions for 5G wireless core.
Efforts have been made to virtualize the wireless core for years, starting with 4G networks, and Intel has enabled the industry to make impressive gains as the transition to 5G ramps in 2020. Quach and host Allyson Klein discuss the new requirements imposed on network infrastructure by 5G, and how Intel is working with customers and customers’ customers to define and deliver an unmatched solution portfolio for 5G network infrastructure, including 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Quach additionally highlights several recent proof points by Intel partners and customers that are important milestones on the path to the mobile core that future networks will depend on.
To learn more about Intel’s unparalleled portfolio for 5G network infrastructure, visit intel.com/network and follow Alex Quach on Twitter at @quachalexander.
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Don Potts is a Senior Manager-SAP Solutions at Dell Technologies. He joins the podcast to talk about how consistent hardware infrastructure provides additional value for SAP users.
SAP is one of the world’s largest enterprise resource planning providers. Its impact on business, finance and technology cannot be underestimated. Dell delivers solutions to meet customers wherever they are in their SAP journey. But for SAP to be most effective, customers need consistent hardware and modernized infrastructure. In this episode, guest host Jake Smith talks with Don Potts about why SAP is so important to joint Dell/Intel customers, how they are using it, and what value they are getting from it. They also discuss how Dell solutions for SAP, powered by Intel technologies, are helping transform the intelligent enterprise from edge to core.
Dell solutions for SAP are powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® OptaneTM DC Persistent Memory, and Intel® OptaneTM SSD. To learn more about how Dell and Intel are jointly supporting SAP customers, visit DellTechnologies.com/SAP.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President in the Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division at Intel, talks with host Allyson Klein about Intel’s expanding network portfolio. Rodriguez discusses the company’s unique vision of a fully connected, intelligent network from cloud to edge.
As analysts are forecasting that millions of new 5G base stations will need to be deployed in the coming years to expand customer services, Intel is engaging with the broader network industry to create solutions that can scale across all types of radio access network (RAN) deployments. Rodriguez goes into detail about how Intel collaborated with the world’s 5G leaders to design standard, high-volume silicon for RAN deployment with the new 10nm Intel® Atom® P 5900 and the deep investments Intel has made in software.
To learn more about Intel’s network portfolio, visit intel.com/network and follow Cristina Rodriguez on Twitter at @cristinar_5g.
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Jeni Panhorst, Vice President and General Manager for the Network and Edge Platforms Division at Intel, joins Chip Chat to update on Intel's hardware and software infrastructure for the enablement of edge services.
Panhorst has responsibility for all of Intel's products and platforms for network and network edge infrastructure, partnering deeply with customers to deliver the capabilities that will define the network of tomorrow. In this interview, Panhorst and host Allyson Klein highlight key technologies advancing the development of edge services, beginning with Intel Atom® P5900, a new 10nm System on a Chip (SoC) for 5G radio access networks (RAN). As Panhorst shares, 2020 is expected to see significant growth in 5G deployments. This new SoC delivers on customers' needs for high performance for packet processing and base station workloads and integrates seamlessly with other Intel network infrastructure products for end-to-end network solutions.
Panhorst also speaks to up-the-stack Intel software investments that make it easier to more rapidly develop and deploy differentiated edge services and applications. Panhorst highlights OpenNESS, Open Network Edge Services Software, an open source reference toolkit that serves as an "easy button" for deploying innovative edge services, and CERA, the Converged Edge Reference Architecture, which brings together OpenNESS and OpenVINO™ toolkit to accelerate development.
For more information on Intel's unmatched portfolio of solutions for 5G and edge infrastructure, please visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com, OpenNESS.org, and follow Jeni on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jeni_p.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, Dan Speck, Vice President Technology R&D at Burwood Group, talks with host Allyson Klein about performance improvements gained from the new C2 compute instances offered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP), powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Customers, like genomics researchers needing large scale parallel workloads, rely on Burwood Group to help design and architect workloads that can operate efficiently in the cloud. To meet these needs, the company carefully considered performance, flexibility, and security before selecting the new C2 instance from GCP.
To learn more about Burwood Group, visit www.burwood.com.
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Dan Rodriguez, Corporate Vice President and General Manager for the Network Platforms group at Intel, joins Chip Chat to update on Intel's strategy and solutions for transforming network infrastructure for 5G.
In this interview, Rodriguez and host Allyson Klein dig in to Intel's announcements from February 24th, 2020, which expanded Intel's unmatched portfolio of solutions for network infrastructure. Rodriguez highlights updated 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the critical component fueling network transformation and the delivery of new services. The latest 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver 36% more performance and 42% more performance per dollar compared to the prior generation [1].
Rodriguez also shares excitement over Intel Atom® P5900, a new 10nm System on a Chip (SoC) with the right mix of compute cores, connectivity, and acceleration to power 5G radio access network base stations well into the future. Intel Atom P5900 is already seeing significant interest from the industry and end customers and is expected to help Intel achieve a leading 40% market segment share for base station silicon by 2021, one year earlier than previously forecast.
Finally, Rodriguez discusses two new complementary technologies: Intel structured ASIC codenamed "Diamond Mesa" and Intel Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapter XXV710-DA2T with Hardware-Enhanced Precision Time Protocol. Less complex than a true ASIC and less expensive and more power efficient than an FPGA, Diamond Mesa targets 50% more performance or 50% better power efficiency versus the previous generation. The new Intel Ethernet 700 Series is Intel's first 5G-optimized network adapter and enables accurate time synchronization across the network without the added complexity and expense of specialty timing hardware for 5G, industrial, and financial applications.
For more on Intel's unmatched solution portfolio for 5G infrastructure, please visit https://intel.com/network and follow Rodriguez on Twitter at https://twitter.com/danrod2000
[1] Updated 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver 36% more performance and 42% more performance per dollar compared to the prior generation. For details, see https://networkbuilders.intel.com/blog/network-momentum.
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Jennifer Huffstetler, Vice President, Data Platforms Group, and General Manager, Strategy, Xeon and Memory Group at Intel, joins host Allyson Klein to update on Intel’s data-centric strategy for network transformation and share news on additions to its unmatched portfolio of products for 5G network infrastructure. The latest updates continue to further Intel’s vision of enabling customers to do more with data, wherever data occurs.
This week, Intel introduced many exciting advances to enable network transformation from core to edge, headlined by the Intel Atom® P5900 processor, a a 10nm system-on-a-chip for wireless base stations, and expansion of Intel’s 2nd-gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor line-up. These latest processors deliver customers up to 36% higher performance [1] over the prior generation for our customers across their cloud, network, and edge needs.
Other announcements this week, including the launch of the new Intel Ethernet 700 Series network adapters with Hardware-Enhanced Precision Time Protocol (PTP), which increases the timing precision required for 5G networks through a combination of hardware and software enhancements, and the all-new structured ASIC codenamed “Diamond Mesa” for 5G networks, illustrate the unique breadth and depth of Intel’s 5G infrastructure portfolio. Diamond Mesa targets up to 2x the performance or half the power of its predecessor.
To learn more about these announcements, please visit the Intel Newsroom, learn more at intel.com/xeonscalable, and follow Jennifer on Twitter at twitter.com/jenhuffstetler.
[1]: 1.36x average performance gains across workloads: Geomean of Integer Throughput, Floating Point Throughput, Stream Triad, and Linpack - Configurations: Gold 6258R: 1-node, 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6258R on Intel Reference platform with 384 GB (12 slots / 32 GB / 2933) total memory, ucode 0x500002c, HT on for all except off for Stream, Linpack, Turbo on, with Ubuntu19.10, 5.3.0-24-generic, int=323, fp=262, Stream=224.4, Linpack=3305, test by Intel on 12/25/2019. vs. Gold 6152: 1-node, 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6152 on Intel Reference platform with 384 GB (12 slots / 32 GB / 2933) total memory, ucode 0x500002c, HT on for all except off for Stream, Linpack, Turbo on, with Ubuntu19.10, 5.3.0-24-generic, int=224, fp=198, Stream=200.9, Linpack=1988, test by Intel on 12/25/2019.
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For decades computer scientists have recognized the need for memory to keep up with compute. Beginning in the 1940s engineers have had to balance how systems process information with how they store and access it. Since its introduction, 3Dx Point memory, the basis for Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory, has helped mitigate one of the biggest bottlenecks to performance.
Frank Hady is a fellow and Director of Storage Technology Group, Intel. In this episode of Chip Chat he and host Allyson Klein explore the relationship of memory and storage to compute, and outlines how Intel is helping accelerate performance throughout information ecosystems and re-invent the memory storage paradigm in systems.
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On this episode of Chip Chat, founder and CTO of WP Engine, Jason Cohen, discusses the future of web hosting and how his company passes performance onto his customers.
WP Engine is one of the largest Wordpress hosting sites and helps marketers reach customers quickly and effectively online. The most important factor for website success is speed as a slow website can result in fewer visits and fewer conversions. There are many factors to consider when increasing site speed but underlying all of these variables is the processor powering the experience.
Cohen's team recently upgraded their cloud capabilities to Google Cloud's compute optimized instances, leveraging Intel® 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors. Learn more about how this has benefitted WP Engine customers in this 13-minute podcast.
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Cloud to edge is much hyped as the next wave of digital transformation, and edge computing promises to remove many of the limitations of public and private cloud. But you need to have common, seamless frameworks to work at the edge, on premises, and in public cloud. Talal Alqinawi explains what Microsoft is doing to enable this and how enterprises can make cloud to edge part of their digital strategy.
He goes on to explain why the time is right for enterprise edge. IT doesn’t sit in one data center, and it’s not one type of application. It is a set of connected applications and activities that have to work together. Having recognized that, many businesses have interactive applications with their clients. They must service their businesses, their clients, and even their supply chains to become one connected community. This is the intelligent edge. Talal also offers practical steps enterprises can take to get started in their cloud to edge journey.
Talal Alqinawi is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft Azure. He leads product management and marketing teams for advanced workloads in Microsoft Azure including Azure Stack, Azure Data Box, HPC, and SAP in Azure.
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Join us on this episode of Chip Chat with special guest host Jake Smith as he interviews Stefan Deml, CTO and CO-Founder of decentriq. This podcast covers what decentriq is doing to offer solutions that prioritize data safety and simplicity in a new era of confidential computing. Stefan explains how until now, technology only allowed us to protect data at-rest and in-transit, but we are finally closing the loop with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) and can protect data while it is in-use. decentriq has built their avato platform with at root of trust on Intel hardware and they are enabling data collaboration between multiple untrusted parties in an end-to-end encrypted environment. Stefan shares how decentriq’s customers will now be able to execute advanced applications like privacy-preserving analytics and secure Machine Learning (ML).
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Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President for the Data Platforms Group and General Manager for the Wireless Access Network Division for Intel, joins Chip Chat to update on the evolution of compute infrastructure for the network edge. Rodriguez leads Intel's efforts to provide innovative Wireless Access Network solutions, including those for 5G. 5G deployments are a significant area of focus for the communications industry, with Gartner predicting greater than $4 billion in 5G infrastructure spending in 2020 alone[1].
In this interview, Rodriguez and host Allyson Klein dive into Intel's strategy for enabling new edge and 5G use cases. Rodriguez notes that while 5G and the big data explosion enable new opportunities for service providers, these opportunities often depend on low latency and high reliability in the wireless network. This means moving more compute closer to the edge, where the data is being generated, and harnessing virtualization and cloud architectures throughout the network, from data center to core to edge.
Rodriguez highlights recent successful deployments, including Corning's strategic collaboration with Intel to scale 5G in-building network solutions[2] and New Jersey's American Dream shopping and entertainment complex, an outdoor deployment powered by JMA Wireless XRAN and Intel Xeon Scalable processors which is one of the first FCC-authorized commercial deployments using the new Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum at 3.5 GHz.
Finally, Rodriguez reviews Intel's portfolio of hardware and software solutions for the edge, including the upcoming Snow Ridge solution for 5G radio access networks. First announced with Intel's customers Ericsson and ZTE at Mobile World Congress 2019, Snow Ridge is a 10nm multi-core system on a chip (SoC) with integrated network acceleration that extends Intel architecture into wireless base stations for 5G and edge compute. Intel's base station partners are already developing solutions leveraging this leading part, which will launch at MWC 2020.
For more information on Intel solutions for 5G and the network edge, please visit https://intel.com/network and follow along on Twitter with https://twitter.com/intel5gnetworks and https://twitter.com/CristinaR_5G.
[1] https://channellife.com.au/story/gartner-5g-infrastructure-revenue-to-reach-us-4b-in-2020 [2] https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2019/10/corning-announces-5g-in-building-network-collaboration-with-intel.html
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Microsoft recently announced general availability of Azure Large Instances (which scale up to 9TB) with Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory. Microsoft and Intel have partnered extensively with SAP to deliver greater performance, capacity, and database availability and support to SAP HANA customers.
Juergen Thomas is the Principal Architect Lead at Microsoft. In this live interview at Microsoft Ignite 2019, he outlines the specific benefits of the new instances of SAP HANA and how it delivers value in concert with persistent memory. This includes flexibility regarding hardware deployment and configuration, allowing SAP HANA customers coverage previously not available with virtual machines, and faster, smoother experiences when restarts are required.
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In this episode of Intel Chip Chat, guest host Jake Smith interviews Phil Van De Mortel, IOT Sales Manager from Intel to discuss Intel’s story of IOT at the intelligent edge. This podcast was recorded at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando where Intel and Microsoft showcased some of the new services both companies are delivering at the intelligent edge. Intel and Microsoft are collaborating to make it easier for customers on a digital transformation journey, create and deploy IoT solutions. Intel embedded hardware combined with Microsoft IoT Edge and cloud software is enabling customers to scale and take advantage of IOT in the business world. Intel connected Logistics through IOT central is a great example of this.
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Neuromorphic computing looks to the human brain and nervous system for inspiration. The brain is very good at perceiving information, learning from context, and inference. Understanding how the brain does something can inform how a computer could perform the same task. To be sure, neuromorphic computing isn’t biomimicry or about reconstructing the brain in silicon. Rather, it’s about understanding the processes and structures of neuroscience and using those insights to inform research, engineering, and technology. Those insights can help create a new generation of AI that’s better at seeing, learning, and solving problems.
Mike Davies is the director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab and a veteran neuromorphic computing engineer. He joined us to talk about neuromorphic computing, what it means to “spike” a neural network, and Intel’s Loihi, a neuromorphic research chip that contains over 130,000 “neurons.”
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Bradley, a national law firm with business clients around the world, faced an all too common IT challenge – replacing an aging infrastructure. With 541 lawyers across multiple sites, new offices continuing to open, and ever-increasing demands on data, flexibility and scalability were top priorities for the project.
The firm embraced edge computing to get greater performance and lower TCO from its infrastructure. It outfitted a new primary data center with DataOn HCI and Intel® OptaneTM technologies. Existing remote sites required small redundant storage and compute solutions to provide local access to data. Ellen Kirby, Senior Manager of Technical Operations and Senior Enterprise Architect, describes the value and performance of the edge implementation and lessons learned along the way.
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Good maps rely on good data. The Red Cross’ Missing Maps Project leverages AI to provide governments and aid workers with the tools they need to navigate disasters like hurricanes and floods. Using a wealth of satellite imagery and machine learning, the Missing Maps Project is working to make villages, roads, and bridges more accessible in the wake of devastation.
In this episode of Chip Chat, we talked to Intel deep learning algorithms engineer and researcher Alexei Bastidas about the technology behind making maps from satellite images. Bastidas has direct experience with under-mapped areas. Prior to working with Intel he served in the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan, and today he draws on that experience when working to provide better information for humanitarian aid workers via the power of AI.
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Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most deployed databases on the planet, with millions of customers worldwide. So it’s important to understand how customers will be affected by emerging technologies, particularly in this era of digital transformation. Ken LeTourneau, Enterprise Solutions Architect in the Data Center Group at Intel, explains what impact data center technologies like Intel® OptaneTM DC Persistent Memory will have for customers deploying SQL Server 2019.
What worked, even a few years ago, in the data center won’t support the demands of today. As Ken says, "It's no longer about hindsight, it's about insight.” SQL Server 2019 provides industry-leading performance and security, with intelligence over all of an enterprise’s data -- structured or unstructured. SQL Server 2019 with new big data features provides an easier path to acting on data, and with support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, it can deliver larger memory-optimized databases for scale-up and scale-out system landscapes. As Ken explains, SQL Server is no longer simply a way to run queries. It's an intelligent data platform that enables advanced data work such as prescriptive analytics. Distributed data bases, intelligence at the edge, and beefing up analytics and insights capabilities are changing the way customers should think about building data bases.
Learn more about how Intel and Microsoft are enabling this intelligence from the edge to the cloud here.
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Deep learning workloads have evolved considerably over the last few years. Today’s models are larger, deeper, and more complex than neural networks from even a few years ago, with an explosion in size in the number of parameters per model. The Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T) is a purpose-built deep learning accelerator to speed up the training and deployment of distributed learning algorithms.
Carey Kloss is the VP and General Manager of the AI Training Products Group at Intel. In this interview, Kloss outlines the architecture and potential of the Intel Nervana NNP-T. He gets into major issues like memory and how the architecture was designed to avoid problems like becoming memory-locked, how the accelerator supports existing software frameworks like PaddlePaddle and TensorFlow, and what the NNP-T means for customers who want to keep on eye on power usage and lower TCO.
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Academic research and theoretical work on deep learning have predicted an exciting future for deep learning, and now real-world technology is catching up with some of the most exciting potential of AI. Inference is a particularly fascinating part of AI, as it’s what powers the ability of neural networks to “predict” what certain data looks or sounds like. The Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference (NNP-I) is purpose-built for intensive inference workloads, and accelerating this crucial part of artificial intelligence.
Gadi Singer is the VP and General Manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, and a 29-year veteran of the company. In this interview, Gadi holds forth on both the high-level design philosophy informing the NNP-I’s structure, and the finer details of its design, such as power efficiency, optimizing data movement, and software support. He also talks about which industries and areas can potentially be transformed by better inference, such as image analysis, automated recommendation systems, and natural language processing.
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In this episode, Rick Cnossen talks with Allyson about a joint solution created by Intel and VMware to make the experience of operationalizing enterprise analytics and AI simpler and more cost effective. Rick is Senior Director of Global AI Sector Solutions with the Enterprise and Government team at Intel. He explains that operationalizing analytics and AI is a goal for many companies, but there are still barriers. It's complicated and can be expensive and must be done in the context of hybrid cloud transformation with continued support for legacy workloads. Intel and VMware have created an "easy button" of sorts with the new Hybrid Cloud Data Analytics Solution. It’s an end-to-end solution that provides comprehensive analytics; it’s also easy to manage and can run in the cloud.
For more information, visit intel.com/vmware and download the solution brief.
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In this episode of Intel Chip Chat, Jim Gordon, GM of Ecosystem Business Development, Strategy and Communication for Intel, joins us to talk about Intel’s next generation Intel® Xeon E processors and Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Jim talks about how Intel delivers the building blocks for security to CSPs, ISVs and other ecosystem partners that enable them to improve the security capabilities they offer to their customers, both in hardware and software. Intel now has general availability of the new Intel® Xeon E-2200 processors for server with double the Intel SGX enclave size – now 256MB. Take a listen to learn how this is leading to even more possibilities for new security use cases and developer innovation in HW based security.
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Natural Language Processing is a complex and important field of AI. It’s what allows AI assistants to understand human voices, chatbots to understand typed text, and AI to read scanned text from analogue media. Understanding language and producing language are at once simple and complex problems for AI. While an AI may know the meaning of individual words perfectly well, syntax, sentiment, and context can add meaning that is more difficult to detect.
For this episode we’re joined by Peter Izsak, a senior deep learning data scientist and lead developer of NLP Architect at Intel. NLP Architect is an open source library built to facilitate research and collaboration within the NLP community and create a platform for NLP collaboration. Now on its fifth version, NLP Architect’s newest features allow for greater understanding of linguistic context that AI often finds so challenging.
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Keeping track of data is a challenge that any enterprise needs to deal with. This isn’t just because of the amount of data generated by users, applications, and devices. It’s also because of how data is distributed. Organizations today often grapple with an IT footprint that spreads across the globe. Data and applications often cross borders, time zones, and oceans, and getting a clear picture of data use and activity is often beyond the scope of a single IT professional, or even a traditional IT department.
Geoff Tudor is the Vice President of Vizion.ai at Panzura. Vizion.ai provides a single, consistent view of an organization’s data wherever it is on Earth, as well as a unified view of their application activity. By integrating machine learning to detect anomalous activity and potential breaches, Vizion.ai improves security and ease of use. All of this requires immense computational power with high throughput. Panzura manages this with a container-based infrastructure and a highly efficient storage layer. A key part of that storage layer is Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, which allows Panzura to deliver their services quickly, flexibly, and within a cost structure that works for their customers.
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Alex Quach, General Manager of Intel’s Wireline and Core Network Division, joins Chip Chat to talk about his team’s efforts to drive new levels of network performance to support advanced edge use cases and the continued evolution of 5G services.
With early 5G deployments supported by existing LTE networks, many communication service providers (CommSPs) have been focused on transformation of the radio access networks to roll out new devices and enhanced mobile broadband services. In order to deliver on 5G’s promise of ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC), CommSPs are extending user plane virtualization from the core networks to the near-edge, far-edge and on-premise edge.
A next generation central office (NGCO) moves virtualization solutions one step towards the customer from the core. CommSPs are retooling thousands of COs to support 5G user plane function, wireline access and support services, such as content delivery networks, cloud gaming and augmented reality (AR), with lots of headroom for growth.
Quach detailed work with companies like Alibaba, Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, Rakuten, RedHat, Tencent* and others to drive user plane virtualization across the near-edge, far-edge and on-premises edge and explained how FPGAs, new storage capabilities and AI building blocks complement compute and network capabilities to support a variety of virtualized network functions (VNFs) and new services. He described multi-access edge computing (MEC) as a super set of all edge computing that supports a wide variety of use case and deployments particularly in the far-edge.
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has created some of the most powerful scientific supercomputers in the world, and currently supports over 3,500 different projects. TACC’s system’ capabilities are built with large-scale scientific data in mind, and it has provided millions computational hours for partners like CERN, LIGO Lab, and individual researchers tackling data-intensive problems.
In this interview, we talked to Dr. Dan Stanzione, the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin and the Executive Director of TACC. He discusses the architecture and capabilities of Frontera, TACC’s newest HPC cluster. In June 2019, Top500 ranked Frontera as the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world making it the most powerful HPC system at any academic institution, and Stanzione theorizes that it may be the most capable general-purpose HPC system in the world for some applications.
Frontera’s architecture includes 8,000 servers, each powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. The cluster includes hundreds of thousands of processing cores and a liquid-cooled infrastructure enabling a higher clock rate for even more performance. These and other features provide broadly-balanced capabilities that can support numerous and diverse large-scale, data-intensive scientific research projects the world over.
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The insurance industry is no stranger to leveraging data in decision making. Underwriters have been checking ledgers and consulting information for over a hundred years, and today the industry has access to more data than ever before. The amount of data that goes into a quote is immense, often more than a single professional can easily manage. DataCubes is giving underwriters the ability to use AI to derive value from that data and asses risk efficiently.
Phil Alampi is the Vice President of Customer Engagement at DataCubes, and his goal is to allow insurance professionals to do more in the way of decision-making and less in the way of administrative work that can be easily automated. Using AI powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, DataCubes transforms unstructured data like PDFs into pre-populated applications, saving underwriters hundreds of hours. Armed with machine learning, Alampi and his team are helping bring data-driven decision-making to a centuries-old industry.
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Brian Kelly, CEO of CloudGenera, joins us to discuss what it will take for enterprises to realize success in multi-cloud adoption.
A good multi-cloud strategy includes a right mix of on- and off premises investments. As organizations address and reduce their technical debt, improve the economics and cost transparency in the data center, and establish best practices for making workload placement decisions, they will uncover their right mix. The smartest organizations will operate in a multi-cloud environment leveraging the best that private and public cloud can afford.
CloudGenera provides vendor-agnostic IT analysis for a clear view of private, hybrid and public cloud solutions to help enterprises speed time to digital transformation. CloudGenera’s algorithms automate decisions for workload placement as well as simulate business cases for workload transformation to achieve better value for spend, lower risk, and improve performance.
CloudGenera teamed with Intel to write “The Blueprint for Cloud Success,” a white paper that addresses the importance of a sound multi-cloud strategy and breaks down the necessary components. Find it at https://resources.cloudgenera.com/white-paper/
In this episode of Chip Chat, Technical Program Manager at Google Cloud, Paul Mason, discusses how Google is working to solve customer challenges migrating to multi-cloud environments. Anthos, a new solution announced in April, leverages Kubernetes to allow customers an easier path to a cloud native format.
Anthos allows customers to leverage Google's management style outside of the Google Cloud to encompass on-premise, private cloud and even other public cloud deployments.
Intel has worked closely with Google to help optimize architecture for Kubernetes and this continued partnership has also supported optimizations for Anthos. Learn more about how to get started leveraging Anthos for a multi-cloud environment at https://cloud.google.com/anthos.
To learn more about Intel's Select Solution leveraging Anthos check out the hybrid cloud section on http://www.intel.com/selectsolutions.
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Artificial intelligence is a powerful, disruptive technology, and Anna Bethke wants to use that power for good. Bethke is the head of AI for Social Good at Intel Artificial Intelligence. She and her team connect social good organizations with the expertise and technology they need to accomplish their mission. Bethke, often working with the Intel® Software Innovator Program, has supported a variety of organizations and innovators. Her partners have used AI to help locate missing children, build better wheelchairs, improve agriculture, and test water purity.
AI for Social Good also seeks to support more ethical and transparent AI. Artificial intelligence can amplify human biases depending on what data is fed into algorithms, and training AI with appropriate data can help mitigate the effects of bias. Bethke acknowledges that everyone has a different idea of what it means to be ethical, but contends that with conversation and education, we can build AI that solves problems and promotes positive change. For more on AI for Social Good please visit https://www.intel.ai/ai4socialgood/
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In this episode we’re joined by Carlos Morales, the General Manager of the AI Software Group at Intel, to talk about Nauta, an open-source deep learning training platform.
Nauta (the Latin word for “sailor”) runs on Kubernetes* (the Greek word for “helmsman”) and is intended to give data scientists and their teams better control as they navigate the seas of data. It’s multi-node, and multi-user integrated, combining years of best practices into a single easy-to-install software package.
Scaling deep-learning processes over multiple nodes can be challenging. Nauta is built for easy resource sharing over large teams. This allows for better access to valuable deep-learning resources. Nauta is fine-tuned to run over multiple 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor based servers with multiple users, granting more flexibility and better access to valuable deep-learning resources.
For more on Nauta-enabled solutions, check out this episode of Intel on AI: https://soundcloud.com/intelonai/dell-emc-ready-solutions-ai-nauta
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Dr. Rene Meyer, Vice President of Technology at AMAX joins Chip Chat to talk about how enterprises are preparing for emerging workloads being fueled by the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC). In addition to leading the AI & High Performance Technology group at AMAX, Dr. Meyer is a former research fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University with multiple patents and published work in the space of emerging non-volatile memory technologies. In this interview, Dr. Meyer discusses AMAX’s focus on appliances for storage, cloud, and hyper-scale integration. Dr. Meyer goes into more depth about why training in AI is now moving to deploying models at the edge, and why 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can be a good fit for such tasks given their advancements in machine learning and security technologies. He also explores how the oil and gas industry is one of the driving forces behind AI and HPC convergence, and how Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory is improving storage options for in-memory databases.
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Not all advanced computing takes place in data centers.
Maxx Garrison, product manager with Logic Supply, talked with Chip Chat about how the Internet of Things (IoT) is evolving and advantages that come with moving compute power to the edge with help from Intel technology.
Logic Supply’s sealed systems turn up in demanding settings where contamination is a concern – farms, factories, hospitals, emergency vehicles – close to users and environmental data.
As applications get smarter, data is coming from a variety of sources, and the amount is increasing. Sending it to the cloud can be expensive, and transmission can be a liability in decision-critical situations that demand low latency.
The ability to gather, analyze, and deliver information quickly makes computing at the edge vital, and also opens complex use cases, like sensor fusion, where visual, thermal, and vibration data from local and remote sensors are combined and run through models. Sensor fusion with edge AI could expand what systems can do autonomously.
Garrison sees data, sensors, and inputs continuing to increase, with systems advancing to meet the growing demand for intelligent compute at the edge. Logic Supply’s goal is to make input easy and, whatever the application, scale up seamlessly without rewriting or retraining models. They’re already getting close with the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, and they’re adding compute-intensive capabilities to their entire line of edge products, from entry-level devices to the high end, which features 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
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As AI expands into the mainstream, how will it succeed at the edge? Matt Jacobs, Senior VP Commercial Systems, Penguin Computing, Inc. talks about the growth of AI, its move from the data center, and easing customers into the edge space.
An established leader in data center and HPC solutions, Penguin takes a system-level view of the move to AI, a trend they’ve seen developing over the past two years. In the next 18 months, symbiotic technologies will be converging to create “real growth opportunity,” in Jacobs’ words.
Deploying AI at the edge comes with its own needs, and they differ from those of traditional data centers. Easily maintained low-power environments well-tuned for workloads are key, and the spread of processing power from the data center to the near-edge to the far-edge calls for software that can ensure workload portability.
New compute platforms, like 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with built-in AI acceleration, suit the unique requirements of workloads at the edge. Upcoming Intel “One API” software, which will simplify programming diverse computing engines, will support targeting workloads at various levels of capability.
For more about Penguin Computing, Inc. visit https://www.penguincomputing.com.
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In this episode of Intel Chip Chat, Pat Conte, Senior VP of Global Business Development at HyTrust talks about the ever-evolving security landscape and the work they are doing to deliver a more secure cloud infrastructure. HyTrust is a cybersecurity company focused on locking down virtual infrastructure that support all cloud environments, and protecting the critical data within the cloud workloads. Security is a top priority for IT managers, and HyTrust partners with Intel to help secure the underlying infrastructure. Pat chats about BoundaryControl, a HyTrust solution that integrates Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) and Intel® Trusted Platform Modules (Intel TPM) technologies to essentially put a boundary around a designated server or servers to help ensure that workload is only getting executed on the server that you designate it to. New capabilities and evolving landscape gives Intel and HyTrust the opportunity to enhance encryption and geo-fencing and adopt new Intel® Security Technologies, like the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors with Intel® Security Libraries for Data Centers (Intel® SecL–DC). More Information:
HyTrust and Intel Ease Integration of Trusted Compute: https://www.hytrust.com/blog/hytrust-and-intel-ease-integration-of-trusted-compute/
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Brandon Draeger, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Cray, joins Chip Chat to discuss the unique needs of HPC customers and how new Intel® technologies in Cray systems are helping to deliver improved performance and scalability.
The Cray CS500 supercomputer includes standard rack configurations, a variety of cooling options, and a flexible software stack for users who are still investigating HPC deployments or just starting out. The XC50 that is more customizable with higher bin CPUs, accelerators, and custom interconnects as well as deployment support from Cray. Both lines are built to meet the core challenges facing HPC customers today.
More and more, we are seeing the convergence of AI and HPC – users investigating how they can use AI to complement what they are already doing with their HPC workloads. This includes using machine and deep learning to analyze results from a simulation, or using AI techniques to steer where to take a simulation on the fly.
One of the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor features that Brandon is excited about is Intel® Deep Learning Boost, which accelerates deep learning inference performance. Cray sees this as benefitting customers like those working with cryo-microscopy – taking hundreds of thousands of images at the structural level to test things like new drug treatments. Cryo-microscopy consumes a lot of memory, but is boosted by the improved DL inference performance.
Brandon finishes his visit by discussing the upcoming Aurora exascale class system targeted for delivery to Argonne National Lab in 2021. It will feature future Intel technologies, as well as the Cray Shasta architecture to tackle the most mind-boggling human challenges.
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Shadi Sahin, VP of Product Strategy at SAS, discusses trends in the data analytics sector and the new capabilities his team is bringing to market.
SAS is focused on augmenting advanced and predictive analytics in the areas of computer vision and AI, allowing end-users to easily access key insights from large datasets. SAS is a long-time Intel partner and has been a quick adopter of innovative datacenter technologies including 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. To learn more about SAS solutions visit SAS.com and for more of technical deep dive visit blogs.sas.com.
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This is the moment for AI at the edge. That’s the view of Fabrizio Del Maffeo, Vice President and Managing Director for AAEON Technology Europe. He spoke with Chip Chat about AI trends his company sees emerging worldwide.
A leading manufacturer of advanced industrial and embedded computing platforms, AAEON brought intelligence to industrial controls. Today, it supports artificial intelligence and sponsors UP Bridge The Gap*, a user community for established companies starting to use AI.
There’s more data and more video at the edge than ever before, says Del Maffeo, and it must be processed at the edge rather than in the cloud because of security, privacy, and bandwidth limitations.
Algorithms running in the cloud must run on completely different architectures at the edge. AAEON has embraced Intel technology, particularly the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit for porting code between platforms, something vital for customers moving from low-cost industrial architecture to high-performance Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, including the 2nd Generation family.
While porting algorithms from cloud to edge is not yet plug-and-play, Del Maffeo foresees stronger integration between tools at the edge, including tools for cloud, machine learning, and deep learning – like TensorFlow and CAFFE.
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Accenture has partnered with Intel to provide Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory to its SAP HANA clients. In this episode, we talk with Jolie LeBlanc, Business Strategy Manager in the Semiconductor Practice at Accenture Strategy, about the partnership, the challenges and opportunities Accenture clients face with their in-memory databases, and how Intel® OptaneTM DC persistent memory can help. As one of the first system integrators with a comprehensive understanding of how to use and manage this new technology, Accenture has a unique perspective on how SAP HANA users can capitalize on this new technology category.
The challenge many SAP HANA users face is that the ever-increasing database size drives up infrastructure costs and/or restricts users from keeping all relevant working data sets in their SAP HANA in-memory database – which limits the value users can derive from it. This is where Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory comes in.
Based on Accenture’s testing, LeBlanc describes the benefits of persistent memory for SAP HANA users, including the potential for several large data sets to fit into memory rather than storage. Accenture clients can now process data faster to achieve faster business insights. And due to persistence, there is less waiting for data loading.
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Joaquin Ruiz, Senior Director of Product Management at NetApp, joins Chip Chat to talk about facilitating data access and analysis with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Ruiz is responsible for product management for NetApp advanced memory solutions, including the MAX Data memory tiering solution. MAX Data enables a plug-and-play approach to using Intel Optane DC persistent memory with a number of applications, providing access to persistent memory without changes to the application itself. In this interview, Ruiz speaks to the effects of today's data explosion and how NetApp is helping to address storage and data challenges for customers in an array of verticals including financial services, government, retail, and healthcare. Ruiz notes that simply having data is no longer enough -- what counts is the ability to analyze and quickly act on data. Ruiz additionally forecasts how advancements like persistent memory will influence storage architectures in the future, including making large-scale data analysis less expensive and more available to more organizations.
By spanning across multiple servers, MAX Data enables persistent memory to be viewed as one continuous pool, multiplying by a factor of 25 the amount of persistent memory sitting on your servers[1]. NetApp testing has indicated that by reducing CPU wait time via efficient tiering, MAX Data can accelerate the performance of massively scalable database applications by up to 5x while significantly reducing infrastructure cost[2]. For more information on NetApp, please visit https://netapp.com.
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[1] For every 1TB of Intel Optane DC persistent memory, NetApp MAX Data v1.3 is designed to support 25TB of flash as a second tier. Please visit https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx for details.
[2] 5x massively scalable database application acceleration with reduced infrastructure cost based on NetApp testing. Please visit https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx for details.
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Prasanna Sundararajan, founder and CEO for rENIAC, Inc., joins Chip Chat to talk about using Intel® FPGAs to accelerate demanding data-centric applications. rENIAC's solutions leverage Intel FPGAs to help customers surmount the unprecedented challenges presented by new data opportunities. Its Data Engine solution provides an intermediary layer between Apache Cassandra* clients and database nodes, bringing storage closer to the network through intelligent caching and accelerating transactional and AI applications. In this interview, Sundararajan discusses his and rENIAC's work, the bottlenecks that rENIAC and its customers have encountered when using NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra, and how rENIAC data engine, Intel FPGAs, and Intel® Optane SSDs are helping customers eliminate these bottlenecks.
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In this 10 min podcast, William Bell, Executive VP of Product at Cloud Service Provider phoenixNAP, discusses how cloud infrastructure is changing and how his team approaches meeting customer needs.
Today's IaaS product offerings need to offer customers the freedom to leverage the right infrastructure for specific workloads. Customers are requiring infrastructure optimizations that support specific applications and are looking for the latest technology to improve performance while remaining cost-effective.
phoenixNAP works with end-users to help ensure their specific workloads and applications are running on the best infrastructure possible. Partnering with Intel, phoenixNAP can offer their customers the latest cloud innovations such as Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory, Intel® Deep Learning Boost and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 ensuring their customers gain optimal performance in the cloud.
Bell discusses how phoenixNAP end-customer, Panzura, improved their elastic search capabilities through advances offered within the IaaS powered by 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. For more information on their IaaS platform visit phoenixNAP.com.
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In this Chip Chat podcast, two storage technology experts, Dr. Felipe Franciosi from Nutanix, and Nate Marushak from Intel, describe how the open source reference library called SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) brings higher performance to the hyperconverged data center today – and holds promise for the future.
A decade ago, when slow hard disk drives were the heart of a data center, efficiency was improved by designing software to avoid accessing physical media. Innovations in persistent memory and in networking technology have already brought vast improvements. High throughput and low latency are key. For systems that are latency-sensitive, applying SPDK can address software bottlenecks and open the way to even higher performance.
To learn about the SPDK open community, see what companies are doing, and get involved, visit spdk.io.
For information about Nutanix and its SPDK activities, including presentations, Google “Nutanix SPDK.” The company site is nutanix.com.
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Brian Bulkowski, founder of Aerospike, joins Chip Chat to talk about how Aerospike is facilitating a new class of databases for Internet-scale customers. Aerospike is a database company that created a ground-up platform to support the larger datasets and operational databases driven by use cases like retail catalogs, fraud detection, and telecommunications. In this interview, Bulkowski discusses how Aerospike is working to support customers generating terabytes of data from billions of transactions every day and shares his thoughts on Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, which Aerospike has found to reduce the restart time for an 8.7 TB database by up to 135x[1]. For more information on Aerospike, please visit aerospike.com.
[1] Tests performed by Intel and Aerospike as of 27 February 2019 demonstrated that an 8.7 TB database could be restarted in as little as 35 seconds on a server configured with DRAM + Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory versus up to 4,745 seconds (1 hr 19 m 5 s) on a server configured with an equivalent amount of DRAM-only memory, for details see https://intel.ly/2vFT5m5.
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Brad Berkey, General Manager Worldwide SAP Sales at Microsoft, discusses the challenges SAP customers are facing within the datacenter. Businesses are going through the cloudification of the datacenter and transforming their infrastructure to leverage the benefits of the cloud. More specifically, SAP customers are dealing with the transition of their SAP applications to the S4 HANA database. This presents opportunity for accelerated innovation.
Microsoft Azure and Intel are ideally positioned to help customers drive innovation in the cloud and customers are looking for integrated solutions. Customers are eager to leverage the benefits of Intel's 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Microsoft Azure facilitates and expedites adoption of these new technologies. Learn more about Microsoft Azure and SAP at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/sap/.
You can also meet Brad and learn more about Intel's and Microsoft's joing solutions at the upcoming SAP Sapphire event in May: https://events.sap.com/sapandasug/en/home. For more information on how Intel is working with CSP's to innovate cloud solutions, visit intel.com/csp.
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Smart companies are modernizing enterprise infrastructure as the foundation for new digital services; extracting insights from their data to accelerate business decisions; and securing their customers' data to avoid becoming another statistic. In this episode, Bill Giard explains how Intel and its partners are helping customers future-proof their businesses with cloud technology innovations. Through the ecosystem of solutions, customers will find what they need to accelerate digital transformation and compete more effectively.
Bill Giard is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Data Center Group at Intel. He has 20+ years’ experience designing enterprise architectures and developing software solutions across supply-chain, product development, and enterprise infrastructure segments. Before joining DCG he led software development in Intel IT to modernize the application and computing environment.
For more information about the Intel data-centric portfolio for enterprise customers, visit https://intel.com/xeonscalable or https://intel.com/yourdata.
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Cristina Rodriguez is the Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division. She sits down with Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to talk about the transformation of the radio access network to support commercial 5G deployments around the globe.
5G services demand a new architectural approach for radio access networks. Communication service providers are not taking a one-size-fits-all approach to this transformation. Instead they are evaluating a mix of approaches, including traditional distributed, fully or centralized virtualization, integrated, micro cells and more. This pragmatic view positions CommSPs to leverage existing investments while introducing cloud architectural concepts. Similarly Intel takes a holistic solution view of each deployment that draws on a broad portfolio of high performance CPUs, SOCs with network acceleration, eASIC, FPGAs, software, storage and more.
Cristina details the new “Snow Ridge” 10-nm SOC that extends Intel architecture into 5G wireless access base stations for control and packet processing and will establish new performance per watt leadership. Ericsson is already planning to deploy Snow Ridge in its portfolio of solutions. She also highlights some of the recent innovations in FlexRAN to bring cloud innovation to the radio access network in the form of SDN, NFV, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), network slicing and more. She also touches on the momentum and maturity in ecosystem solutions intended to accelerate adoption across the market.
Rodriguez also shares some of the new 5G use cases in industrial, retail, entertainment and other industries that are making the previously impossible, possible. These use cases are made possible by transformed networks, and her team’s work in RAN will play a key role in this end-to-end transformation.
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Gautam Shah, president and CEO of Colfax International, joins host Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to discuss the launch of the new 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor. Gautam explains that this launch from Intel brought significantly more to the market this time with the announcement of Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and a host of related data center products and technologies.
Colfax International, a leading provider of innovative and expertly engineered workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions, is excited by the opportunities now made possible with this latest set of data center technologies enabled by the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Specifically, Gautam highlights that the VNNI instruction set offered by Intel® Deep Learning Boost to improve performance in inference will allow Colfax customers to do more with AI, and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory will support the larger memory footprint Colfax customers need for solutions like SAP and Redis in standard 1U systems.
To learn more about Colfax International and the solutions they specialize in, visit https://www.colfax-intl.com or call 408-730-2275.
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Wei Li, Vice President of Intel® Architecture, Graphics and Software, and General Manager of Machine Learning and Translation at Intel, joins Chip Chat to share Intel’s overarching strategy and vision for the future of AI and outline the company’s edge to cloud AI portfolio. Wei discusses how Intel architecture enables consistency across different platforms without having to overhaul systems. He also highlights increased inference performance with the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost) technology, introduced at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Intel DL Boost speeds inference up to 14x [1] by combining what used to be done in three instructions into one instruction and also allowing lower precision (int8) across multiple frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe and Apache MXNet. He also touches on the work Intel has done on the software side with projects like the OpenVINO™ toolkit – which accelerates DNN workloads and optimizes deep learning solutions across various hardware platforms. Finally, Wei outlines future AI integrations in Intel Xeon Scalable processors, like support for bfloat16. For more on Intel AI and the wide range of offerings and products, please visit www.intel.ai.
[1] 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Deep Learning Boost provide up to 14x faster inference in comparison to 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in July 2017, for details see https://www.intel.ai/2ndgenxeonscalable/.
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Dan Rodriguez, Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group, General Manager of Network Compute Division joins Chip Chat to talk about groundbreaking data centric portfolio of innovations optimized for network transformation. Fueled by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and complementary platform components, communication service providers can move, store, and process data with confidence across the most demanding workloads: from multi-cloud to intelligent edge and back.
Flexibility, performance and ease of use is at the heart of the network transformation efforts in the communications industry. New 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and complimentary platform components are specifically designed to deliver these benefits from core to edge, especially as companies work to collapse multiple workloads onto a single server or rack of servers. Intel brought unique acceleration optimized for specific network workloads including virtual EPC, open virtual switching (OvS), 5G user plane functions, routers, switches and VCCAP, among others.
Dan also talks about the new Intel® Xeon® D-1600, which is part of Intel’s strategy to deliver the right performance, right power and right price for multiple network locations. The new solution is optimized for network edge, control plane, security and mid-range storage applications uCPE, routers, network security appliances and wireless base stations.
Intel® Select Solutions are rigorously benchmark-tested, verified solutions that help accelerate infrastructure deployment on Intel Xeon processors for today’s critical workloads in advanced analytics, hybrid cloud, visual cloud, storage and networking. Dan shared details about the importance of these new data centric solutions, memory innovation and network optimizations in the evolution of Intel® Select Solutions for NFVI and the new Intel® Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Networks. Learn more about these new solutions at www.intel.com/network.
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Tom Lattin, Vice President for Proliant and Cloudline Systems Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, joins Chip Chat to share excitement for technologies introduced on April 2nd at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Tom's organization leads product, technology, go-to-market, and supplier strategies for all ProLiant Racks, ProLiant Towers, Cloudline servers, and related HPE Software. Tom speaks to data opportunities occurring in a variety of verticals and how customer opportunities and challenges are inspiring HPE's edge-centric, cloud-enabled, and data-driven technologies. Tom discusses how 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are helping HPE deliver the capabilities customers need for key workloads like AI and deep learning and highlights HPE's collaboration with Intel around Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory to deliver new levels of memory capacity and storage performance. Finally, Tom outlines HPE's newest technologies for data-center security and monitoring. For more on HPE's offerings for the data center, please visit hpe.com.
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Brian Payne, Vice President for Product Management & Product Marketing for PowerEdge Servers at Dell EMC, joins Chip Chat to discuss satisfying future customer infrastructure needs with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Payne's team defines Dell's PowerEdge hardware portfolio, shepherding new products through development and into the marketplace, as well as contributing to the software and systems management capabilities used in PowerEdge.
In this interview, Payne speaks to the advancement of the data center and IT transformation to being a central part of many businesses and how Dell is working to satisfy new and varied IT requirements. Payne highlights the move for many organizations to software-defined infrastructure and explains why this makes Intel Xeon processor based PowerEdge systems "the bedrock of the datacenter." Additionally, Payne talks about how Intel Optane DC persistent Memory is impacting the capabilities that Dell can deliver to its customers. Finally, Payne describes Dell's approach to security in the data center and how it's helping customers detect, react, and recover from any threats.
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In this episode of Chip Chat, Paul Nash, Product Manager Compute Engine on Google Cloud Platform at Google, discusses the industry trends impacting IaaS and how Google Cloud Platform together with Intel are driving innovation in the cloud. Together Google and Intel are optimizing hardware to support enterprise workloads including developing solutions for SAP HANA.
Google Cloud Platform is also announcing a new family of instances that leverage Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Learn more about the benefits this new memory tier offers Google's customers along with more information on all the new instances being announced at Google Next 2019.
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During her last chip chat Lynn spoke about Visual Cloud use cases and how focusing on Media was simply insufficient. Intel continues to drive innovations in Visual Cloud. In this chip chat hear Lynn talk about Intel’s latest announcements from Intel at NAB 2019. Intel in collaboration with Netflix release into open source SVT-AV1, a highly efficient, performance rich, next generation codec for AV1. With ability to scale from VOD to real time encoding of 4k content the SVT-AV1 promises to make AV1 commercially viable. Learn why continued innovation in codecs is key to delivery of compelling user experiences at a global scale. Lynn also talks about Intel’s announcement of Open Visual Cloud, an open source project that enables a set of pre-defined reference pipelines for visual cloud use cases that are based on optimized open source software (for encode, decode, inference and render) with seamless support for standard industry frameworks. Open Visual Cloud will make it quick and easy for the ecosystem to innovate and deploy leading edge visual cloud services. Lastly learn how Intel’s recently launched Intel® Select Solution for Visual Cloud Delivery Network which is based on Intel’s latest Second Generation Intel® Xeon™ Scalable and Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory will enable Visual Cloud use cases including unleashing innovation in the content delivery networks for the era of Visual Cloud and 5G.
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Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager for Intel Xeon Products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins Chip Chat to cover all the big news from Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Spelman leads Intel's Data Center Group's marketing efforts from product definition to launch and ramp. In this Chip Chat, Spelman and host Allyson Klein recap an exciting event that introduced a broad range of new products for moving, storing, and processing data. Spelman discusses Intel's approach to data-centric computing and capabilities that Intel is unlocking to help customers to make data a fundamental and transformative part of their business. Spelman highlights the launches of 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, including processors performance-optimized for network function virtualization, Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processors for HPC, AI, and IaaS workloads, Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, Intel Optane SSDs, Intel® QLC 3D NAND SSDs, and Intel® Ethernet 800 Series. Spelman additionally speaks to results already being realized by Intel customers like Amazon, Google, SAP, Siemens Healthineers, Twitter, and the North-German Supercomputing Alliance. For more information, please visit intel.com/xeon and follow Spelman on Twitter @LisaSpelman.
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On March 18, Intel and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to deliver the first U.S. supercomputer to exceed one exaflop (a quintillion floating point operations per second). Trish Damkroger, Vice President and General Manager of the Extreme Computing Organization at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss this exascale class system called Aurora that is being developed for the Argonne National Lab. Damkroger outlines a few of the key technologies providing the foundation of the system including a future generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor, the recently announced Intel Xe compute architecture, and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, while also diving into the ground-breaking science Aurora will enable, such as precision medicine, climate modeling and forecasting, and materials science. Aurora will be anchored on Intel’s six pillars of technology innovation: process, architecture, memory, interconnect, security, and software, which Damkroger also touches on when talking about the potential use of the Intel One API program on the software side. This partnership from Intel and the DOE is helping to ensure that the U.S. stays competitive globally in scientific research and development, while allowing us to tackle challenges we haven’t been able to face with today’s most advanced petascale systems.
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Dan Rodriguez, Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of the Network Compute Division, joins Chip Chat to share some of the excitement from Mobile World Congress Barcelona. Dan explains how Intel approaches silicon development to drive an end-to-end network encompassing a series of compute pools capable of running any network function and any workload anywhere in the network.
From the high performance and scale of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to SOCs, like Intel Xeon D processors, that support dense compute with lower power requirements, the company has extended the Intel architecture across network, cloud and edge. Now Intel has announced plans to deliver a 10nm SOC, codenamed Snow Ridge, to support power efficient performance, faster memory support and large I/O capacity for 5G Radio Access Network and broader network edge applications. The architectural consistency allows customers to deploy and scale software seamlessly anywhere in the network to reduce research and development (R&D) and time-to-market.
Rodriguez talks about the game-changing concept for communication service providers called Next Generation Central Office (NGCO) that supports traditional network workloads and newer workloads, like cloud gaming, video encoding, live streaming, virtual reality and mixed reality. Dan shares details about partnerships with QCT, Red Hat, KGP and others to deliver a commercial NGCO solution and Dell EMC on universal CPE that enables CoSPs to deploy enterprise services, including WAN connectivity, security, firewalls and more. In addition, Ericsson and ZTE* have announced their early support of the new, Snow Ridge 10nm SOC.
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Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager Intel® Xeon® Products, Data Center Marketing at Intel Corporation, shares the origin of Intel’s data centric computing message as a customer-focused framework to tackle the today’s ultimate challenge and opportunity - data. Intel works with broad partner ecosystems to deliver hardware and software innovation in compute, storage and networking that supports the movement, storage and processing of every bit of data for better business outcomes.
Cloudification of services and infrastructure is pervasive, which accelerates the utilization and creation of this data. Intel has invested over ten years in building the silicon foundation and software ecosystem for the cloud and cloud native architecture. That revolution has moved into the communication service provider market to support delivery of new services in a more cost-effective manner. Lisa talks about the convergence of 5G, cloud, edge and Internet of Things (IoT) that drives requirements for artificial intelligence, visual workloads and smart computing on the edge.
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Sandra Rivera, senior vice president of the Intel Data Center Group and general manager of the Network Platforms Group, joins Chip Chat for a wide-ranging conversation about Intel’s announcements, partnerships and technology milestones at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2019. Sandra is responsible for the Intel business group charged with providing innovative technology and solutions to the networking industry and is Intel’s 5G executive sponsor.
She talks about Intel's work with the industry to address network transformation and 5G as a high-performing computing challenge. After building momentum with the Intel architecture and partner ecosystem in core network transformation, the company has lead the move of compute, storage and capabilities that are extending from the data center to the network edge where data is generated and consumed.
Rivera details several new Intel architecture advancements, including the recently announced 10nm SOC for wireless base stations, next-generation of Intel® Xeon® D for power and space-constrained applications, edge environments and the integration of the network CPU portfolio with FPGAs from Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group that further accelerate wireless access and mobile core performance.
Rivera talks about several key announcements with what she calls, “the broadest ecosystem in the world” and a number of data-centric use cases in retail, media and industrial industries on display at MWC.
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In this episode of Intel Chip Chat, Anand Kashyap, CTO and Co-Founder of Fortanix, joins us to talk about their mission to solve for security and privacy in the cloud. Anand talks about how Fortanix believes the best security for applications and data in the cloud can’t be built just using software, it has to be enforced with hardware security. Anand talks about the start of Fortanix and how they built around Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) and now offer an array of products from their Runtime Encryption* Platform to their recently launched Enclave Development Program (EDP). Fortanix will be at RSA this year to showcase their new platform EDP, and demo how they are making Intel SGX available to more developers across the world with broader support for languages like Java and Python. Learn more about how Intel and Fortanix are protecting data at-rest, in-motion, and in-use by visiting www.fortanix.com or stopping by booth #N6173 at RSA.
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Chuck Tato, Director for the Wireline and NFV Business Division for the Programmable Solutions Group at Intel, joins Chip Chat to help welcome Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 -- Intel's first FPGA for NFV and 5G workloads. Designed with networking in mind, Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 is a highly efficient programmable solution with the right capabilities to support the high-throughput, line-rate applications happening in the networking arena today. In this interview, Tato speaks to the value of virtualizing network functions and the use of FPGAs to enable the low latency and high throughput that can sometimes be elusive in virtualized solutions. Tato additionally discusses the architecture and performance characteristics of these FPGAs and how Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) facilitates the integration of Intel FPGAs into existing Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor based solutions.
For more information on Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000, please visit https://intel.com/FPGA and https://twitter.com/IntelFPGA.
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Media is undergoing a rapid evolution going well beyond the traditional streaming of content over a TV screen. People are addicted to their screens and expect their content to be rich, immersive, personalized and available anytime, anywhere and on any device. Delivery to these new user expectations requires the content be processed in the cloud and consumed remotely. We are calling these new visual experiences Visual Cloud. This is changing the game, introducing new challenges and driving new platform requirements leading the service providers to take an end to end platform perspective. Lynn Comp (Vice President, Data Center Group and General Manager, Visual Cloud Division, Intel Corporation) has talked about Visual Cloud in prior Chip Chat sessions. In this Chip Chat segment Lynn explains how the Media industry is transforming and why calling it ‘Media’ is simply not sufficient. Lynn also discusses the importance of on-demand cloud and transformed networks to delivery of visual workloads as we move into the next era of Media and 5G.
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In this episode of Chip Chat, Nelly Porter, Senior Product Manager for Google Cloud, joins us to discuss Confidential Computing and why Google is delivering this service to its customers. Nelly talks about the key drivers for Google’s Cloud strategy and how everything they do takes security, privacy and control into account to bring better protections to customers. Google announced an open source framework in May 2018 called Asylo, to make it easier to create and use enclaves on Google Cloud. Nelly also talks about Google’s collaboration with Intel around hardening their cloud infrastructure with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Google Cloud, in collaboration with Intel, is hosting the Confidential Computing Challenge to generate new ideas in the future of computing. Learn more and join the challenge: https://cloudplatformonline.com/Confidential-Computing-Challenge-2019-Reg.html
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Learn about the operating mode capabilities included with Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory: memory mode and app direct mode. Kristie Mann, Product Line Director for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory in Intel’s Data Center Group, talks about the innovative capabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory and the key benefits of its two operating modes. For more information: http://intel.com/optanedcpersistentmemory
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When Intel previewed an array of data-centric innovations in August 2018, one that captured media attention was Intel® Deep Learning Boost, an embedded AI accelerator in the CPU designed to speed deep learning inference workloads.
Intel DL Boost will make its initial appearance in the upcoming generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors code-named Cascade Lake. In this Chip Chat podcast, Intel Data-centric Platform Marketing Director Jason Kennedy shares details about the optimization behind some impressive test results.
The key to Intel DL Boost – and its performance kick – is augmentation of the existing Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instruction set. This innovation significantly accelerates inference performance for deep learning workloads optimized to use vector neural network instructions (VNNI). Image classification, language translation, object detection, and speech recognition are just a few examples of workloads that can benefit.
Early tests have shown image recognition 11 times faster using a similar configuration than with current-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors when launched in July 2017. Current projections estimate 17 times faster inference throughput benefit with Intel® Optimized Caffe ResNet-50 and Intel Deep Learning Boost that can be achieved with a new class of advance performance CPUs debuting in the upcoming generation.
For more information about AI activities across Intel visit ai.intel.com.
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[1] Future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake provide up to 11x inference performance with Intel® Optimized Caffe, ResNet-50, and Intel® Deep Learning Boost (VNNI) in comparison to current generation Intel Xeon Scalable Platinum 8180 Processor with FP32 instructions (at launch, measured July, 2017), for details see https://intel.ly/2Mw7KKE, slide 33.
[2] Future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance provide up to 17x images per second (deep learning inference) in comparison to current generation Intel Xeon Scalable Platinum 8180 Processor (at launch, measured July, 2017), for details see https://intel.ly/2VUvY2I.
Director, Offering Management for Compute at IBM Cloud, Jay Jubran discusses why enterprises are choosing the cloud for their HPC workloads. IBM's new HPC-as-a-Service offering is powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors as they offer the performance required to meet customers' needs.
IBM Cloud is focused on innovative cloud capabilities and partnering with Intel to provide the best solution for their HPC customers. Learn more about IBM's HPC cloud offerings here: https://cloud.ibm.com/.
IBM will be announcing their latest enterprise cloud offerings at IBM Think, February 12-15th 2019. Learn more about the agenda: https://www.ibm.com/events/think/.
Successful Cloud Service Providers are staying ahead of the technology curve, not chasing it. Explore intel.com/csp.
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Jennifer Huffstetler, VP and GM for Data Center Product Management at Intel, joins Chip Chat for a deep dive into the capabilities of a new class of processors: future Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance. Architected to deliver performance leadership across the widest range of demanding workloads[1], future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance deliver unprecedented memory bandwidth[2] with more memory channels than any other CPU. These processors are expected to offer superior performance (results estimated based on pre-production hardware) in comparison to AMD EPYC on many demanding applications including: • Physics -- MILC up to 1.5X [quantum chromodynamics] [3] • Weather – WRF up to 1.6X [weather research and forecasting model] [4] • Manufacturing – OpenFOAM up to 1.6X [open source CFD] [5] • Life/material sciences – NAMD (APOA1) up to 2.1X [Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics] [6] • Energy – YASK (ISO3DFD) up to 3.1X [stencil benchmark] [7]
For more information, please follow Jennifer on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jenhuffstetler and visit https://intel.com/hpc.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to www.intel.com/benchmarks.
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[1] Performance leadership across the widest array of demanding workloads based on https://intel.ly/2VUvY2I. [2] Native DDR memory bandwidth. [3] Future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance provide up to 1.5x MILC performance in comparison to AMD EPYC 7601 (2S configuration), for details see https://intel.ly/2VUvY2I. [4] Future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance provide up to 1.6x WRF performance in comparison to AMD EPYC 7601 (2S configuration), for details see https://intel.ly/2VUvY2I. [5] Future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance provide up to 1.6x OpenFOAM performance in comparison to AMD EPYC 7601 (2S configuration), for details see https://intel.ly/2VUvY2I. Data collected with OpenFOAM® Foundation v5.0. This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFDLimited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com, and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trademarks. [6] Future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance provide up to 2.1x NAMD (APOA1) performance in comparison to AMD EPYC 7601 (2S configuration), for details see https://intel.ly/2VUvY2I. [7] Future Intel Xeon Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance provide up to 3.1x YASK (ISO3DFD) performance in comparison to AMD EPYC 7601 (2S configuration), for details see https://intel.ly/2VUvY2I.
With no GPS in space, how can a rover know its exact location on a lunar surface?
In this Chip Chap podcast, Phil Ludivig, rover navigation engineer with iSpace, Inc.* joins Shashi Jain, innovation manager at Intel, to talk about research that applied AI to one of the biggest challenges in space exploration.
Ludivig and Jain, along with other researchers, came together at NASA Frontier Development Lab (NASA FDL) to tackle questions facing NASA and the commercial space industry. Their team took on one of the most fundamental – and answered it a highly inventive way.
Starting with a game engine, the team created a simulated lunar environment to train an AI algorithm that produced the ground truth needed for machine learning. Next, they created synthetic images, called reprojections, from cameras mounted on a rover. AI matched reprojected images to actual orbital images, figuring out terrain features that made sense.
The team used Intel® AI DevCloud for inference, an Intel Core™ i7+ PC and Intel Xeon® Scalable processor-based server for synthetic training data generation, and Google* Cloud Platform for training.
The same technique can be applied anywhere, on Mars or even areas of Earth where GPS is out of reach.
For details about this and other NASA FDL projects, visit frontierdevlopmentlab.org.
Information about Phil Ludivig’s organization is online at ispace-inc.com.
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AI and HPC are highly complementary – flip sides of the same data- and compute-intensive coin.
In this Chip Chat podcast Dr. Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow and director of its Parallel Computing Lab, explains why it makes sense for the two technology areas to come together and how Intel is supporting their convergence.
AI developers tend to be data scientists, focused on deriving intelligence and insights from massive amounts of digital data, rather than typical HPC programmers with deep system programming skills.
Because Intel® architecture serves as the foundation for both AI and HPC workloads, Intel is uniquely positioned to drive their convergence. Its technologies and products span processing, memory, and networking at ever-increasing levels of power and scalability.
For more information on developing HPC and AI on Intel hardware and software, visit the Intel Developer Zone at software.intel.com.
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In this Chip Chat podcast, Zahi Kakish, a doctoral student focusing on swarm robotics at Arizona State University, joins Shashi Jain, innovation manager at Intel, to talk about some remarkable work that’s emerged from NASA FDL, the space agency’s Frontier Development Lab.
Designed as an eight-week challenge, FDL is an AI accelerator project set up by NASA Ames, the SETI Institute, and private partners. Its goal? To bring together the best minds in AI and planetary science to tackle challenges facing NASA and the commercial space industry.
This past summer, with support from Intel principal engineers and an Intel® Xeon processor-based server at SETI, Kakish and his FDL team created a planning tool called the Mission Planner for Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems, MARMOT for short. Through the use of IA and machine learning, it enables two semi-autonomous rovers to communicate and work together to solve a task.
With its collaborative systems and assistive AI, MARMOT delivers a significant performance improvement over missions that employ a single robot with a human operator. It represents a fresh and highly optimized approach to autonomy, and it’s available as open source code.
To access the code for all NASA FDL projects, visit https://gitlab.com/frontierdevelopmentlab.
Additional information is available on the FDL site at https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/.
To learn about the Autonomous Collective Systems Lab at Arizona State University and their work on swarm robotics, go to http://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/acs/.
More about Intel’s involvement in FDL is posted on https://intel.com/ai.
To access Intel AI DevCloud, a cloud hosted hardware and software platform that helps developers, researchers, and startups get started on AI projects, visit https://ai.intel.com/devcloud/.
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Dr. Henry Jerez, Principal Group Product and Program Manager for Azure* Machine Learning Inferencing and Infrastructure at Microsoft, joins Chip Chat to discuss accelerating AI inference in Microsoft Azure. Dr. Jerez leads the team responsible for creating assets that help data scientists manage their AI models and deployments, both in the cloud and at the edge, and works closely with Intel to deliver the fastest-possible inference performance for Microsoft's customers. At Ignite 2018, Microsoft demoed an Azure Machine Learning model running atop the OpenVINO toolkit and Intel® architecture for highly-performant inference at the edge. This capability will soon be incorporated into Azure Machine Learning. Microsoft additionally announced at Ignite a refreshed public preview of Azure Machine Learning that now provides a unified platform and SDK for data scientists, IT professionals, and developers. For more on Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, please visit http://aka.ms/azureml-docs.
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Descartes Labs helps companies to get business insight from huge volumes of satellite and geographic data, using a combination of Software as a Service and custom development. Handling petabytes of data, compression is hugely important for packaging the data in usefully sized files and for driving down storage costs. By upgrading to the latest generation Intel® processor, provided in the Google Cloud Platform*, Descartes Labs was able to accelerate its compression.
To learn more about Descartes Labs solutions visit their website at https://www.descarteslabs.com/. To learn more about Intel's partnership with Google Cloud Platform visit https://cloud.google.com/intel/.
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Dr. Ziya Ma, vice president of Intel® Software and Services Group and director of Data Analytics Technologies, gives Chip Chat listeners a look at data center optimization along with a preview of advancements well underway.
In their work with the broad industry, Dr. Ma and her team have found that taming the data deluge calls for IT data center managers to unify their big data analytics and AI workflows. As they’ve helped customers overcome the memory constraints involved in data caching, Apache Spark*, which supports the convergence of AI on big data, has proven to be a highly effective platform.
Dr. Ma and her team have already provided the community a steady stream of source code contributions and optimizations for Spark. In this interview she reveals that more – and even more exciting work – is underway.
Spark depends on memory to perform and scale. That means optimizing Spark for the revolutionary new Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory offers performance improvement for the data center.
In one example, Dr. Ma describes benchmark testing where Spark SQL performs eight times faster at a 2.6TB data scale using Intel Optane DC persistent memory than a comparable system using DRAM DIMMs.
With Intel Optane DC persistent memory announced and broadly available in 2019, data centers have the chance to achieve workflow unification along with performance gains and system resilience starting now.
For more information about Intel’s work in this space, go to software.intel.com/ai.
For more about how Intel is driving advances in the ecosystem, visit intel.com/analytics.
Performance results are based on Intel internal testing: 8X faster insights (8/2/2018) based on Apache Spark SQL IO intensive queries for Analytics vs. DRAM+HDD at 2.6TB data scale; 9X read transactions and 11X users per system (5/29/2018) based on Apache Cassandra-4.0 workload doing 100% reads vs. comparable server system with DRAM & NAND NVME Drives; 12.5X faster restart times (5/30/2018) based on running SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03, and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. No product can be absolutely secure. Configurations: Results have been estimated based on tests conducted on pre-production systems, and provided to you for informational purposes.
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Christine McMonigal, Director of Hyperconverged Infrastructure at Intel, joins Chip Chat at the Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference to talk about what’s new from Microsoft and Intel.
The two companies have collaborated extensively on hyperconvergence. One result, announced at Ignite, is a refreshed version of Intel® Select Solutions for Windows Server* Software Defined Storage. It adds support for Microsoft’s newly announced Windows Server 2019, which in turn supports Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory.
Intel is working with many industry partners, including Microsoft, to create what it calls Intel Select Solutions, full stack solutions optimized and benchmarked for verified performance. The aim is to bring more data centers into hyperconverged environments more readily.
To support Storage Spaces Direct, one of Windows Server 2019’s new features, Intel just released two configurations to the market as reference designs. The Base configuration can support a wide range of workloads while the Plus configuration is optimized for more latency-sensitive workloads like databases and analytics.
McMonigal gives us a look at what’s ahead, with Intel Optane DC persistent memory being used as a high-speed cache in hyperconverged solutions, to name just one exciting application.
For more information about Intel Select Solutions for Windows for Server Software Defined Storage, go to intel.com/selectsolutions.
For more about how Intel and Microsoft are partnering to accelerate business transformation, visit intel.com/microsoftdatacenter.
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92% savings by deduplication based on https://youtu.be/3wvTYbnXyB4.
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Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager of Windows Server and Hybrid Cloud at Microsoft, joins Chip Chat to talk about how Microsoft has intentionally designed their products to meet the growing infrastructure needs of businesses using the Hybrid Cloud. Jeff emphasizes the importance of migrating to the Windows Server 2019 and how this new release will greatly impact performance, security and scalability. He also talks about the benefits of Microsoft’s deep partnership with Intel and the exciting capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server. To learn more go to aka.ms/wssd and aka.ms/sqlserver. To learn more about Hybrid Cloud visit www.intel.com/Cloud.
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13.7 million iOPs based on https://twitter.com/CosmosDarwin/status/1044331604871663624.
6.7 million iOPs based on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2018/10/30/windows-server-2019-and-intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory/
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Jim C. Gordon, GM Ecosystem, Business Development, Strategy & Communication at Intel, dives in to the developer opportunities Intel is excited to present with the launch of the latest Intel® Xeon® E processor with Intel® Software Guard Extensions, or Intel® SGX. Data security is a hot topic for enterprises of all sizes, and Intel is working with developers and ecosystem partners to increase data protection. Jim Gordon provides a description of how Intel SGX helps create a trusted execution environment from the hardware level, and how industry partners are using Intel SGX technology in their current applications. For more developer information and toolkits, please visit https://software.intel.com/sgx and follow Gordon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JimCGordon
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With 75M+ domain names under management, GoDaddy powers the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to side hustles and small businesses. As a SaaS provider, GoDaddy’s infrastructure needs to be high performing and highly secure, but invisible to customers. The company recently made a shift in IT infrastructure strategy, moving to hybrid cloud.
GoDaddy’s VP of Infrastructure Engineering, Adnan Adil, stopped by to talk about what the company is learning in the early days of its hybrid cloud implementation and how a workload optimization strategy influenced their planning. By pivoting to hybrid cloud, GoDaddy will lower the TCO of its IT infrastructure, enable faster innovation, and be able to enter new markets quickly while maintaining a consistent customer experience. And because Intel powers many of the world’s data centers, GoDaddy can move to different cloud providers with ease and confidence.
For more information about GoDaddy, visit GoDaddy.com. Learn more about the Intel workload placement affinity model here https://intel.ly/2fBLq0i Learn more about driving business growth with hybrid cloud here: intel.com/cloud Learn more how Intel enables Cloud Service Providers here: intel.com/CSP
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IT must prioritize modernization initiatives that can help shed the burdens of legacy infrastructure, boost operational efficiency, support emerging workloads, and maintain the security of the enterprise. To do this successfully requires a holistic approach that both innovates and modernizes hardware and software investments. The end-of-support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 has been an urgent call to action for many enterprises to plan their migration strategies and evaluate the state of their broader hardware infrastructure.
Eman Yarlagadda and Ken LeTourneau of the Intel Data Center Group’s Digital Transformation and Scale Solutions team stop by to talk about the varied opportunities for IT modernization that enterprises have as those end-of-support moments approach. They discuss some of the technical innovations and solutions Microsoft, Intel and their ecosystem partners offer to ease the transition.
Learn more about IT modernization at intel.com/beready
Learn more about how Intel and Microsoft are accelerating business transformation together at intel.com/microsoftdatacenter
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Jason Stowe, Principal Group Program Manager for Hybrid and Cluster Computing at Microsoft, joins Chip Chat from Ignite 2018 to discuss enabling HPC workloads in the cloud. Stowe and his team are responsible for facilitating traditional HPC workloads atop Microsoft Azure* cloud infrastructure. In this interview, Stowe speaks to Microsoft's approach to HPC in the cloud and delivering HPC services similar to those provided by on-premises solutions. Stowe highlights Azure's new HC instances, with Intel Xeon Platinum processors for greater horsepower for HPC workloads. For more information on Azure cloud HPC solutions, please visit azure.microsoft.com/solutions/bigcompute.
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In this podcast you will hear from James L Jeffers, Sr. Director, Senior Principal Engineer, Visualization Solutions Intel Corporation. Jim will discuss Intel’s continued investments in its portfolio of Open Source Software Rendering libraries to enable the industry to deliver compelling visual effects for motion pictures and photorealistic renderings for scientists and engineers with optimum time to market and total cost of ownership benefits. Intel recently established Intel® Rendering Framework as the umbrella term for its family of rendering products which includes OpenImageDenoise, Embree, OSPray & OpenSWR. Learn more about each of the libraries along with how the Intel Rendering Framework continues to drive innovations across a broad spectrum of applications.
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Trish Damkroger, Vice President and General Manager of the Technical Computing Initiative at Intel, joins Chip Chat to share her unique perspective on enabling the high-performance computing (HPC) community. In addition to leading Technical Computing for Intel, Damkroger has since 2006 been a leader of the annual SuperComputing Conference series, including serving as the vice-chair of the SC18 conference. In this interview, Damkroger discusses the convergence of AI with traditional HPC workloads like simulation and modeling and the necessity of HPC for driving innovation in the data era. Damkroger additionally speaks to Intel announcements from SC18, including a look at the future Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors codenamed Cascade Lake advanced performance, Intel's new leadership product for HPC. These processors feature an optimized multi-chip packaging with unprecedented memory bandwidth[1] from 12 DDR4 memory channels per processor for the most-demanding applications like AI, HPC, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Finally, talks about her work to foster future generations of the high-performance computing community. For more on HPC on Intel® architecture, please look for Intel at SC18, visit https://intel.com/hpc, and follow Trish on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trish_damkroger.
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Performance results are based on testing as of 10/31/2018 and may not reflect all publicly available security updates.
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[1] Native DDR memory bandwidth.
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Many enterprises are sold on the idea of hybrid cloud but unsure how to bring their strategy to life. Todd Christ, Enterprise Solutions Architect for the Data Center Group at Intel, explains how Intel and Microsoft are working together to develop solutions for Azure Stack that can help enterprises form a solid foundation for hybrid cloud and IT transformation.
Intel Select Solutions for Azure Stack deliver an optimized, hyper-converged platform, with Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel DC SSD, Intel Optane SSD, and Intel Ethernet Connections featuring iWARP that improve the Azure “on-premises” model for Microsoft’s hybrid cloud. Todd explains the reference design, featured products, and solution configurations in this Intel-optimized, Microsoft hybrid cloud platform that enable enterprises to go further into their hybrid cloud journey.
For more information about hybrid cloud solutions, IT transformation and how Intel is working with Microsoft to develop enterprise solutions, visit intel.com/beready or intel.com/cloud.
6 million iOPs and 13.798 million iOPs based on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2018/10/30/windows-server-2019-and-intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory/.
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In this episode of Intel Chip Chat, Christine Avanessians, Principal PM Manager of the Microsoft Azure Compute team at Microsoft, joins us to talk about Microsoft Azure’s Confidential Computing (ACC). ACC is a broad Microsoft initiative to protect applications and data while in use in memory in the public cloud and is enabled by Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Christine explains why being able to protect data in use is important for customers and how it is accelerating adoption of public cloud workloads. Christine also talks about what is new for ACC at Microsoft Ignite this week in Florida and how people can get started with Open Enclave. To learn more go to: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-confidential-computing/, or follow Microsoft Azure on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Azure.
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Jennifer Huffstetler, VP and GM for Data Center Product Management at Intel, joins Chip Chat to outline the exciting new capabilities of the Intel® Xeon® E-2100 processor featuring Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Huffstetler is responsible for the management of Intel's data center processor and storage products. Huffstetler shares the news that Intel Xeon E-2100 processor family is now available for entry servers and protected cloud use cases. The new Intel Xeon E-2100 processor improves performance by 39%[1] compared to the prior generation, offers up to 6 cores, and supports up to 128 GB of DDR4 ECC memory[2]. Huffstetler discusses use cases for small and mid-sized businesses, larger enterprises, and customers seeking enhanced security features. Huffstetler also speaks to main takeaways from a recent panel she led (https://intel.com/xeonepanel) on Intel SGX and secure cloud services and how Intel Xeon E-2100 is preparing the ecosystem for broader adoption of Intel SGX technology. For more information on the Intel Xeon E-2100 processor, please visit https://intel.com/xeone and follow Huffstetler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jenhuffstetler.
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Results have been estimated or simulated using internal Intel analysis or architecture simulation or modeling, and provided to you for informational purposes. Any differences in your system hardware, software or configuration may affect your actual performance.
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[1] Up to 39% more compute integer throughput with Intel® Xeon® E-2186G Processor compared with Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1285 v6. System Config:
Tested at Intel Corp as of 10/12/2018 1x Intel® Xeon® E-2186G Processor, Platform: Moss Beach, 4 x 8GB DDR4 2666 ECC(32GB 2666MHz ) ,OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Kernel 4.15.0-29-generic) ,Benchmark: SPECrate2017_int_base (Estimated), Compiler: ICC 18.0.2 20180210,BIOS: CNLSE2R1.R00.X138.B81.1809120626, uCode:0x96, Storage: SSD S3710 Series 800GB, Score: 41.4 (Estimated) compared to 1x Intel® Xeon® E3-1285v6 Processor Platform: S1200RP, 4 x 8GB DDR4 2400 (32GB 2400MHz ) ,OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Kernel 4.15.0-29-generic), Benchmark: SPECrate2017_int_base (Estimated), Compiler: 18.0.2 20180210,BIOS: S1200SP.86B.03.01.0038.062620180344, uCode:0x8e, Storage: SSD S3710 Series 800GB, Score: 29.7 (Estimated)
[2] Support for up to 128GB system memory capacity will be available in 2019 through a published BIOS update. Please contact your hardware provider for availability and support.
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In this episode of Chip Chat, Chris Spanton, Senior Architect of Blockchain at T-Mobile joins us live from Microsoft Ignite, to talk about scaling into the cloud with Blockchain. Blockchain provides a lot of benefits like speed, cost, efficiency, and transparency. It also allows companies like T-Mobile to audit and perform governance and review on data. Chris talks about T-Mobile’s new blockchain solution called NEXT Directory, which is built on Hyperledger Sawtooth and features Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). Chris talks about the value that OpenSource and Hyperledger play in blockchain. For example, Sawtooth’s Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET) consensus algorithm interfaces with Intel SGX and moves the actual consensus process into the hardware, which speeds up node process and increases security. To learn more about the work that T-Mobile is doing with Microsoft and Intel in blockchain, visit https://github.com/hyperledger/sawtooth-next-directory.
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Prasanth Pulavarthi, Principal Program Manager for AI Infrastructure at Microsoft, and Padma Apparao, Principal Engineer and Lead Technical Architect for AI at Intel, discuss a collaboration that enables developers to switch from one deep learning operating environment to another regardless of software stack or hardware configuration.
ONNX is an open format that unties developers from specific machine learning frameworks so they can easily move between software stacks. It also reduces ramp-up time by sparing them from learning new tools. Many hardware and software companies have joined the ONNX community over the last year and added ONNX support in their products. Microsoft has enabled ONNX in Windows and Azure and has released the ONNX Runtime which provides a full implementation of the ONNX-ML spec.
With the nGraph API, developed by Intel, developers can optimize their deep learning software without having to learn the specific intricacies of the underlying hardware. It enables portability between Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® FPGAs as well as Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processors (Intel® Nervana™ NNPs). Intel is integrating the nGraph API into the ONNX Runtime to provide developers accelerated performance on a variety of hardware.
For information about ONNX as well as tutorials and ways to get involved in the ONNX community, visit https://onnx.ai/.
To learn more about ONNX Runtime visit https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/onnx-runtime-for-inferencing-machine-learning-models-now-in-preview/.
To learn more about the Intel nGraph API, visit https://ai.intel.com/ngraph-a-new-open-source-compiler-for-deep-learning-systems/.
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In this interview from Microsoft Ignite, Dr. Ted Way, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft, stops by to talk about Microsoft Azure* Machine Learning, an end-to-end, enterprise grade data science platform. Microsoft takes a holistic approach to machine learning and artificial intelligence, by developing and deploying complex algorithms as well as accelerating them on hardware. Azure Machine Learning is powered by Project Brainwave, using Intel® FPGAs to deliver real-time AI in the form of image recognition and classification, language understanding, speech to text, and text to speech. Intel FPGAs shine when processing unstructured data and serving a response with very low latency. At Ignite, Microsoft announced four new algorithms – ResNet-152, DenseNet-121, VGG-16, and SSD-VGG – which will allow uses even more flexibility when using the Azure Machine Learning platform. To get started with Azure Machine Learning and Intel FPGAs, visit http://aka.ms/rtai.
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Dr. Jason Knight joins Chip Chat to talk about Intel support for PyTorch*. As Head of Software Product for the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, Dr. Knight guides the development of software to enable the best use of hardware in Intel's heterogeneous product portfolio for AI. In this interview, Dr. Knight discusses the benefits of the PyTorch framework, broader community adoption of PyTorch, and highlights Intel investments in the PyTorch ecosystem such as direct optimizations through Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (Intel® MKL-DNN), the Neural Network Distiller PyTorch algorithm testing environment, and PyTorch support in nGraph Compiler. For more from Dr. Knight, follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/binarybana. For more on Intel solutions for AI, please visit https://ai.intel.com.
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Jake Smith, Director for Data Center Solutions and Technologies at Intel and the host of Intel's Conversations in the Cloud podcast, joins Intel Chip Chat to cover all the big ideas and news from Microsoft Ignite 2018. Smith and host Allyson Klein discuss the importance of Windows Server 19's support for next-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory and SSDs and the incredible world record setting performance using these technologies and Windows Server Storage Spaces Direct. Smith additionally speaks to key Windows Server 19 features that are driving IT interest in the platform and Microsoft/Intel collaborations around Intel® Select Solutions, Azure Confidential Computing with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), Microsoft Brainwave* with Intel® FPGAs, and cloud HPC/AI compute in Azure based on Intel Xeon Platinum processors. For more information on Smith's work, please visit intel.com/beready, follow Smith on Twitter at @jakesmithintel, and look for Intel Conversations in the Cloud at soundcloud.com/intelcitc.
13.798 million iOPs based on https://twitter.com/CosmosDarwin/status/1044331604871663624.
2x generation on generation performance improvement with Storage Spaces Direct based on https://twitter.com/CosmosDarwin/status/1044331604871663624 and https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/07/26/storage-iops-update-with-storage-spaces-direct/.
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Alexis Bjorlin, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Connectivity Group, joins us to discuss how Intel is driving end-to-end data center networking connectivity through cutting edge solutions including Intel® Ethernet, Intel® Omni-Path Architecture, Intel® Silicon Photonics, and more. She illustrates how Intel's connectivity portfolio unleashes the power of the data center by ensuring that data is transmitted effectively with high bandwidth and low latency at scale. For more information on Intel's connectivity strategy and portfolio, please visit www.intel.com/siliconphotonics or www.intel.com/5g.
Data insights are the currency of digital business. A data-driven culture empowers employees with the resources and skills they need to access the right information at the right time to make smart decisions. Lisa Davis, General Manager for Digital Transformation & Scale Solutions in the Data Center Group at Intel, explains the important roles that both technology and humans play in creating this culture, and how business leaders can pave the way for culture change. For more on this topic, visit intel.com/analytics or intel.com/beready.
Heather Kirksey, Vice President of OPNFV, and Bryan Madden, Marketing Director for Intel’s Network Platforms Group, joined Chip Chat to talk about a compelling new paper outlining the total cost of ownership (TCO) savings resulting from a virtualized central office (VCO).
Fewer than five percent of central offices have been transformed into mini-data centers to support explosive data growth at the network edge. With the launch of 5G and proliferation of data-hungry applications, communication services providers, hardware and software companies and the open source community have a vested interest in virtualizing services on standardized hardware with datacenter processing scale and cloud flexibility.
OPNFV tested the VCO proof of concept using open source software against use cases identified by Intel in its work with British Telecom (BT). The VCO TCO tool incorporates real-life data across configurations, utilization rates, enterprise customer segments and geographies, among other inputs.
Operators can model their operations for estimated five-year TCO returns. The OPNFV paper estimated top-line TCO reduction from VCO at 43 percent. You may download the new paper at https://intel.ly/2NFedDl. Learn more about Intel’s work in networking and 5G at www.intel.com/network.
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43% Reduced Total Cost with Virtualized Central Office based on https://intel.ly/2NFedDl.
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Dr. Andres Rodriguez, a Senior Principal Engineer in the Data Center Group at Intel, stops by to talk about why it is so critical to optimize framework and software tools artificial intelligence applications. Intel has worked hard over the last two years to optimize popular frameworks like Caffe, TensorFlow, MXNet, and Pytorch for Intel® Xeon® processors. We’ve also developed the Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (Intel® MKL-DNN) to accelerate deep learning workloads on Intel® architecture. Customers are now seeing the benefits of using their existing Intel Xeon processors for artificial intelligence workloads with increasingly optimized performance. For more on this topic, visit: http://ai.intel.com.
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Dr. Yinyin Liu, Principal Engineer and Head of Data Science for the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, joins Chip Chat to talk about software tools and optimizations coming out of Intel AI Lab. Dr. Liu and her team work to converge research into data science with Intel's hardware and software technologies to contribute tools and research back to the AI community. In this interview, Dr. Liu discusses recent advancements such as NLP Architect, Reinforcement Learning (RL) Coach, and Neural Network Distiller. Dr. Liu was recently named by Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of "9 Silicon Valley women to watch who are leading in AI," https://intel.ly/2wr8S97. For more information on Dr. Liu and her team's work, please stay tuned to https://ai.intel.com/research-projects/.
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Gadi Singer, Vice President, Architecture General Manager, Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss technology innovation and his top life lessons to help us understand AI and its natural progression into our everyday lives. With over 35 years at Intel, Gadi has been a part of driving seven architectures, including the first Intel® Xeon processors brought to market. Gadi shares with us the following lessons and knowledge he’s gleaned from his years at Intel: what breakthrough innovation requires; always “question the question” by redefining the problem; transformative innovation challenges beliefs, priorities and values; and when it’s clear it’s late (our thinking is linear and our environment is changing at an exponential rate). Ultimately, Gadi encourages us to embrace AI and its power to improve and accelerate almost any type of innovation.
Lisa Spelman, Vice President & General Manager for Intel Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins Chip Chat to review all the big news from the recent Intel Data Centric Innovation Summit. In this interview, Spelman discusses Intel's view of data-centric computing and how our broad portfolio of silicon solutions will help customers move faster, store more, and process everything. For more on the Intel Data Centric Innovation Summit, please read Navin Shenoy's post "Innovating for the 'Data-Centric' Era" in the Intel Newsroom: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/data-centric-innovation-summit/.
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"$200 million 2022 Data-Centric Silicon TAM" - https://intel.ly/2Mw7KKE, page 12
"Artificial Intelligence is over a billion dollar workload on Xeon alone last year" - https://intel.ly/2Mw7KKE, page 31
43% increase in public cloud revenue in 1H 18 - https://intel.ly/2vGkjJu, page 4
Intel Xeon Scalable platform fastest Intel product to ramp to one million units - https://intel.ly/2Mw7KKE, page 28
$2.5 billion silicon market for AI in the data center; $8-10 billion silicon market for AI in the data center in 2022 - https://intel.ly/2Mw7KKE, page 15
11X inference thoughput improvement with Cascade Lake - https://intel.ly/2Mw7KKE, page 33
Large database reboot time improvement from 35 minutes to 16 seconds - https://intel.ly/2nDTLUZ, page 12
50% of volume shipped on customized processors - https://intel.ly/2M6avCd
70,000 Central Offices - https://intel.ly/2MowbcK, page 12
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Jennifer Huffstetler, Vice President and General Manager for Data Center Product Marketing, Product Management, and Storage at Intel Corporation, joins Chip Chat to discuss developer and industry excitement for Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory. Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory represents a rare opportunity to re-architect the storage hierarchy by bringing affordable, high-capacity memory closer to the CPU, accelerating workloads and speeding the delivery of applications. In this interview, Huffstetler speaks to the key benefits that Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory will deliver to end users and how Intel is working to support the development community to enable best use of this groundbreaking technology. Resources for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory now have reached more than 100,000 developers and see more than 10,000 developer users each month. Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory will be available for first access by the end of 2018. For more information on Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, please visit pmem.io.
9x more read transactions (ops/sec) and 11x more users per system vs. comparable server system with DRAM and NAND NVMe drives when using Apache* Cassandra-4.0 results have been estimated based on tests conducted on pre-production systems, and provided to you for informational purposes.
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In this episode of Chip Chat, Rob Herman, GM and Executive Director of Lenovo Workstations and Client AI explores the constantly evolving market for workstations, ranging from high-end, dual-processor systems to a new ThinkStation P330 Family, answering the need for a compact physical form factor with all the power of the new Intel® Xeon® E processors. Workstations serve a diverse audience ranging from traditional oil & gas, finance, media & entertainment to new areas in AI/AR/VR, 3D printing, and education. For more on the new ThinkStation P330 series of workstations go to www.thinkworkstations.com or follow Lenovo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/thinkstations
In this episode of Chip Chat, Rahul Tikoo, VP and GM of Commercial Client Specialty Products at Dell, joins us to talk about the latest additions to the Dell Precision 3000 workstation product family powered by the new Intel® Xeon® E processor. Rahul discusses how Dell views the workstation arena and the diverse set of customers that rely on continual performance and reliability, including media and entertainment, engineering and manufacturing, as well as oil and gas. Rahul shares that Dell is focusing on innovation in AR/VR and precision customer success. with Sony, Marvel and DNEG, all running on Intel® processors. To learn more about Dell’s new workstation go to www.dell.com/precision or follow Dell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Dell
Lisa Spelman, Vice President & General Manager for Intel Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins Chip Chat for a special episode celebrating the 50th anniversary of Intel's founding. In this interview, Spelman and host Allyson Klein reflect on Intel's history of driving transformative technology innovations from the PC, to the Internet, to today's cutting-edge digital experiences and look ahead to how Intel will enable future computing paradigms for the data-centric era. For more information, please follow Spelman on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LisaSpelman and visit intel.com/datacenter.
Laurie Horenstein, a Program Manager for the Intel Foundation and Michael Hall, a Director in Data Center Group Marketing, join Chip Chat to talk about the Intel Employee Service Corps. IESC is a volunteer program started in 2009 where teams of 5-7 Intel employees are sent around the world to developing nations (and those recovering from natural disasters) to deploy technology and educational services. It’s a highly competitive program, with over 600 alumni donating time in more than 25 countries. Michael recently lead a team to Nepal that partnered with an NGO called Hands in Outreach to deploy laptops and the Waterford Early Learning software at three schools in the Kathmandu area. He gives a first-hand overview of the team’s trip. To learn more about Intel Employee Service Corps, visit: www.intel.com/foundation.
Frequent updates to its IT infrastructure have led to overall TCO reductions for Oath’s massive content delivery infrastructure. Hugo Gunnarsen, VP of Data Center Infrastructure and Performance Engineering at Oath, describes some of the factors in Oath’s TCO analysis. He also explains how staying on the leading edge of technology reduces TCO and the benefits that come from staying on-pace with server innovation like the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform. Please visit Oath.com to learn more about Oath.
Visualizations serve the critical role of making complex data intelligible in a variety of industries. Jim Jeffers, Senior Director and Senior Principal Engineer, Visualization Solutions, at Intel, leads a team that develops three important open source libraries for data center rendering that deliver rasterization and ray tracing with high performance on Intel® Xeon® processors. Jim discusses the new Intel® Select Solutions for Professional Visualization that package up key software capabilities with the power of high performance computing (HPC) to provide stunning visualizations. For more information, visit https://software.intel.com/sdvis and intel.com/selectsolutions.
Video traffic growth continues unabated, representing the vast majority of global IP and mobile traffic. Lynn Comp, general manager of Intel’s Visual Cloud Division, joins Chip Chat to explain how more consumer choice with content, devices and location is changing the media, entertainment and broadcasting landscaping. The resulting convergence of new/traditional media, cloud, network transformation, edge computing and AI/Analytics creates new business opportunities.
Learn how visual workloads are forcing change in how communication network and cloud infrastructure are architected, where computing resources are deployed and how Intel helps media, broadcasters, entertainment brands and over-the-top providers turn these challenges into advantages.
You can follow Lynn on Twitter at @comp_lynn and find more information at www.Intel.com/VisualCloud
The network plays a critical role in IT transformation, as it connects data, apps and services to all parts of the infrastructure. But many enterprises struggle with the legacy of fixed-function network equipment which cannot provide the necessary speed, agility, and consistent application experience across multi-cloud environments. Bob Ghaffari of Intel explains how to choose the right solution for modernizing enterprise networks and make networking a strategic investment.
Paul Bradley, Head of 5G Strategy and Partnerships for Gemalto, joined Chip Chat at MWC 2018. Gemalto creates a fabric of trust across the digital economy, protecting individuals, institutions and data. Bradley emphasized the need for greater awareness and industry collaboration around 5G security requirements. Operators are understandably focused on interoperability, spectrum acquisition and go-to-market planning. With major technology changes, it will be critically important to maintain trust through vigorous privacy, data protection and regulatory compliance investments.
Not just a new radio technology, 5G will drive new areas of digital transformation for Gemalto customers across government, banking, mobile and IoT and enterprises as well as the horizontal cybersecurity industry. Communication service providers (CoSPs) will become more than conduits of information, instead storing data at edge and core of the network, analyzing that data and triggering automated actions based on the data. CoSPs need to physically and logically secure data wherever it will be stored within the 5G system.
In increasingly virtualized data and voice communication networks, Gemalto is delivering robust processor-level cybersecurity solutions. Gemalto’s SafeNet Data Protection On-Demand is a cloud-based, security-as-a-service platform that supports a diverse range of encryption, key management and hardware security module services. It offers developers a single gateway through which software solutions can be implemented direct to Intel® Software Guard Extensions, the highly protected enclaves embedded in the architecture of Intel® Xeon® processors for cloud data centers and virtualized networks.
For more information on securing virtualized and 5G networks, download the whitepaper “A new trust model for the 5G Era” available here.
The foundation of any analytics and AI initiative is data. Jeremy Rader, Strategic Business Development, Analytics and AI, Enterprise & Government at Intel shares how it’s easy to overlook the most foundational part of achieving your AI goals: your data layer. An intelligent data strategy tied to larger business objectives is what will power AI and advanced analytics. Visit intel.com/analytics to explore more about Advanced Analytics with Intel.
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), went into effect last week and Garry Binder, Enterprise Solution and Security Architect at Intel, joins Intel Chip Chat to discuss why it is so important from a tech sector perspective and what we may expect to see moving forward. Garry discusses how GDPR is only the beginning of modern policy and security regulations and he covers some of the key takeaways of GDPR. Garry states that compliance will be more like a marathon than a sprint and it will provide organizations with an opportunity to rethink data security at both the system and infrastructure level, and, in the process, strengthen data protection on a number of levels. To learn more, go to https://intel.ly/2u9xzpa.
Michael Bishop, CTO and Co-Founder at AlphaVertex, discusses combining data science and machine learning on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors available on Google Cloud Platform. He mention develop models, insights, and products powered by AI to help identify investment opportunities. AlphaVertex develops cognitive systems that provide advanced analytical capabilities to the financial community. Michael shares how natural language interface can help financial institutions make more informed decisions based on data and more easily identify the most relevant information moving markets. For more information on AlphaVertex, please visit http://alphavertex.co.
Tony Kau, Software, IP, and Artificial Intelligence Marketing Director at Intel, discusses the new Intel® FPGA Deep Learning Acceleration Suite for Intel OpenVINO. The software tool suite enables FPGA AI inferencing to deliver reduced latency and increased performance, power and cost efficiency for AI inference workloads targeting Intel FPGAs. This suite allows software developers to access and develop frameworks and networks around machine vision and AI-related workloads.
Visit intel.com/fpga for more information.
Dr. Paolo Narvaez, Senior Principal Engineer and Director of Engineering at Intel, joins Intel® Chip Chat to talk about Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics. Dr. Narvaez works to harness the best Intel ingredients to create full-stack solutions for a number of different strategic verticals, including genomics analytics. In this interview, Dr. Narvaez discusses advances in genomics analytics technologies that are reducing the cost of whole genome sequencing, the ongoing explosion of genomics analytics data, and how Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics will broaden access to personalized therapies. Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics build upon Intel's ongoing collaboration with The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard around BIGstack, and are a fast track to unlock the benefits of BIGstack 2.0 atop infrastructure purpose-built for genomics workloads. For more information on Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics, please visit https://intel.com/selectsolutions.
Ziva Dynamics makes it possible to create realistic characters and creatures for motion pictures and entertainment. SciTech Academy Award winner and Ziva Dynamics Co-Founder and Co-CEO James Jacobs discusses how his company uses machine learning algorithms running on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor-based servers and Intel-optimized frameworks to render incredibly lifelike characters and creatures at scale.
Jacobs shares that creating computer-generated characters typically requires big budgets and deep post-production expertise. At Ziva Dynamics, Jacobs and his team have introduced a software simulation paradigm that leverages compute capacity to bring lifelike characters to life more efficiently and at higher quality. By automating the steps of character production and shortening rendering workflows, Ziva achieves efficiency over manual sculpting while improving the quality of the finished product. For more information, please visit https://zivadynamics.com/.
SVP and GM of Intel’s Network Platforms Group, Sandra Rivera, joins Chip Chat at MWC in Barcelona. Rivera and her team are focused on transforming the global communications infrastructure to meet today’s intense data traffic growth and prepare for the 5G future. The stakes are high – as businesses race to connect tens of billions of machines, people, organizations and institutions.
Rivera explains how application of cloud architecture across the core, access and network edge allows communication service providers to position high-powered compute, storage and networking capabilities, such as FlexRAN and multi-access edge computing (MEC), closer to devices and users. All of that is underlying what’s happening with 5G clients and devices.
She discusses Intel’s involvement in the world’s largest 5G deployment in PyeongChang in February 2018. Intel and its partners deployed 5G infrastructure in 10 cities separated by hundreds of miles across Korea. With over 3,800 terabytes of network capacity, applications ran over 20 live 5G links to deliver sports and entertainment experiences, such as immersive media, VR, AR, 360 image capture, live 4k high-definition video, autonomous vehicles and more.
A week later and a continent away at MWC, Intel showcased its 5G leadership across Network, Cloud and Client with demonstrations of connected cars, smart cities, smart stadiums, VR, AR, 5G modems and more. Hear about the exciting advancements that are expected to transform virtually every industry.
For more information, please visit www.intel.com/network or follow Sandra on Twitter @SandraLRivera
Dr. Bill Magro, Intel Fellow and Chief Technologist for High Performance Computing (HPC) at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling. Dr. Magro works on Intel's HPC strategy, helping customers overcome their challenges with HPC and driving new capabilities back into the product road map. In this interview, Dr. Magro discusses the evolution of HPC and how HPC's scope has grown to incorporate workloads like AI and advanced analytics. Dr. Magro then focuses on Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling and how they are lowering costs and enabling more customers to take advantage of HPC. To learn more about Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling, please visit https://intel.com/selectsolutions.
Mike Frost, Director of Product Management for Cloud and Platform Technologies at SAS, joins this episode of Intel Chip Chat to talk about Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors powering SAS business applications. Mike talks about the range of capabilities that SAS is delivering from predictive and real-time analytics in sports, to image recognition in healthcare. Mike also discusses how the combination of Intel hardware and SAS software provide breakthrough benefits to customers. SAS takes advantage of performance benefits on Intel Xeon Scalable processor and Intel® Optane™ memory technology, which enables high throughput, low latency, and high endurance for data-intensive operations. To learn more about SAS, go to https://www.sas.com, or follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SASsoftware.
Mike Reed, Director of the Blockchain Program Office at Intel, joins this episode of Intel Chip Chat to talk about why enterprises should be moving blockchain forward and what Intel is doing to help. Mike talks about Intel’s contribution to blockchain innovation – from Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), which make blockchains better by improving privacy, scalability, and speed, to Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0. Mike also discusses blockchain applications and how Intel is engaged with the ecosystem to move this technology forward and uncover how it can help reduce costs and increase efficiency in various business models. To learn more about Intel and Blockchain, go to https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security/blockchain-overview.html.
Data-rich, compute-hungry workloads require a holistic approach to how enterprises architect their data centers to become engines of business transformation. Lisa Davis explains how Intel is bringing next-gen capabilities to enterprises looking for a future-ready infrastructure platform that can serve the hybrid-cloud, data-fueled era.
Dan Rodriguez, Vice President and General Manager of the Communications Infrastructure Division within Intel’s Network Platforms Group joins Chip Chat. Rodriguez talks about the evolution of network transformation from the central core to the network edge and across architecture, applications and use cases.
Dan highlights the new Intel® Xeon® D-2100 processor as an important investment in supporting the delivery of data center efficiencies across any communication network. With significant performance per watt for environments with thermal, power and space constraints, the Intel Xeon D-2100 processor is ideally suited for mid-range routing and network appliances, vCPE, SD-WAN, virtualized CCAP and next generation central office. Because of a shared architecture with Intel Xeon Scalable processors, communication service providers can deliver the ideal compute resources for virtualized network infrastructure, functions and services from rural communities to dense urban environments and anywhere in between.
With a virtualized network, CommSPs can quickly deploy distributed network functions and deliver new services for enterprises and consumers. This flexibility helps network operators reduce costs, minimize research and development cycles and support scale to meet market demand. Dan also highlights the importance of industry forums and open collaboration in laying the foundation for 5G and what’s next.
To learn more about Intel’s Network Transformation strategy go to www.intel.com/network or follow Dan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/drod2000.
Dr. Casimir Wierzynski, Senior Director for the Office of the CTO in the AI Products Group (AIPG) at Intel, joins us to discuss explainable AI. A key topic at NIPS 2017, explainable AI systems are those in which the AI algorithm's inner workings are revealed transparently and can be easily understood by humans. Dr. Wierzynski contrasts this with neural networks in which it is more challenging to analyze the network's component parts. In this interview, Dr. Wierzynski talks about why explainable AI is of particular interest when developing artificial neural networks, how the new, Intel-supported Partnership on AI (https://www.partnershiponai.org/) is driving cross-industry collaboration in explainable AI, and how explainable AI provides opportunities to increase trust in AI systems. For more information, please read Dr. Wierzynski's blog post, "The Challenges and Opportunities of Explainable AI," (http://intel.ly/2F24Nd4) and read further about Dr. Wierzynski's work at https://ai.intel.com.
Dan Rodriguez, Intel VP and GM of the Communications Infrastructure Division, shares his thoughts on hot topics at MWC 2018. Yes, 5G will grab headlines, and its use cases will push and pull the network from different directions to meet low latency and high bandwidth requirements. Network transformation is required for these life-changing use cases, and Next Generation Central Office is a solution that delivers LTE benefits while we wait on widespread 5G rollouts.
In order to prepare for 5G and fixed mobile convergence as well as handle current CAGR in video and data traffic, carriers are transforming their networks through virtualization and automation. There is significant momentum with carriers deploying virtualized devices and infrastructure, such as vCPE/SD-WAN and NFV, and they are benefitting from scalability and flexibility of these technologies.
The Next Generation Central Office (NGCO) is a continuum of the network transformation journey. Intel envisions common infrastructure from central core and regional data center to the central office and edge. With common NFVI layer, they can deploy network functions in order to dynamically manage traffic. With greater intelligence, overall compute capacity and scale, CoSPs can deploy network functions closer to the edge for use cases dependent on low latency.
The success of network transformation and NGCO rely on architectural consistency from top to bottom. That is why Intel has invested in new solutions, such as Intel® Xeon® Scalable, Intel® Xeon® D-2100 and Intel® Atom C3000. Intel Xeon Scalable is ideally suited for regional data centers and NGCO deployments in dense, urban environments with larger, concentrated populations and intense network demands. By comparison, Xeon D-2100 may be better suited for environments constrained by space and power typically found in suburban or rural NGCOs. Ongoing investments in the Intel Architecture will stay ahead of future, network performance requirements.
The case for NGCO is here and now in the LTE environment. Intel is working with its Network Builders ecosystem to develop commercially available solutions. For more information, visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com/
Raejeanne Skillern, VP and GM of the Cloud Service Provider Platform Group at Intel, joins us to discuss the work Intel has been doing to ensure that global cloud service providers (CSPs) have all of the technology they need, when they need it, to grow their business at hyperscale. Intel works closely with CSPs to build efficient and optimized solutions that fit their specific use-cases. Raejeanne also discusses the recently announced Intel® Xeon® D-2100 processor, Intel’s fastest low-power edge processor, which extends the innovations introduced with the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform, Intel’s biggest data center advancement in a decade, to edge and cloud environments constrained by space or power. For more information on the new Intel® Xeon® D-2100 Processor, please visit www.intel.com/xeond, or follow Raejeanne on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RaejeanneS.
Caroline Chan outlines what 5G can do for you. She shares excitement around major 5G announcements from carriers, industry organizations and developments from Intel and its ecosystem. Chan explains how carriers can use the cloud capabilities provided by 5G at the edge to slice the network. These dedicated, network slices can support custom services and applications that meet the requirements of any vertical industry.
Finally, Chan outlines how the new Intel® Xeon® D-2100 expands and enriches the Intel portfolio of edge solutions with advanced data center intelligence. Because the network edge requires rugged, energy-efficient deployments, Xeon® D-2100 integrates functions into system on a chip (SOC) form factor to deliver high performance levels that meet requirements for lower power and space limitations. Supports high-density, network end-points for use cases, such as network slicing, autonomous driving and more.
Connect with Caroline on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CarolineChan5G.
Susan Blocher, VP for Hybrid Infrastructure Marketing at HPE, joins us live from HPE Discover 2017 to discuss how HPE hybrid infrastructure is helping deliver social good and scientific discovery. Blocher works to help make IT simple and tell the stories that demonstrate how HPE technologies are delivering business outcomes and driving competitive advantage. In this interview, Blocher discusses how HPE data and analytics technologies and Intel infrastructure are enhancing the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's (NCMEC) ability to combat child victimization. Blocher additionally speaks to HPE's partnership with Stephen Hawking’s COSMOS Research Group and the Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics. For more information on HPE Hybrid IT, please visit https://hpe.com.
Bill Philbin manages HPE’s storage hybrid IT function. In this episode, he explains why storage needs to be invisible and how the experience is starting to match the expectation. Bill discusses the recent acquisition of Nimble, which completed HPE’s storage offering and accelerated its transition to all flash, and the benefits of adding AI to InfoSight, the software used to manage Nimble Storage. For more information about HPE storage solutions, visit https://hpe.com/storage.
Christine Frank, Director of Worldwide IoT Industry Partnerships at HPE, explains how the Connect IoT ecosystem drives digitization through IoT. Focusing on the industrial internet of things, automation, and process, Christine helps companies bridge information technology and operational technology. In this episode, she talks about the impact of artificial intelligence on IoT industry solutions and presents multiple industrial IoT use cases for AI. For more information on HPE IoT solutions, please visit hpe.com/IoT.
Paul Miller, VP of Marketing for Software Defined and Cloud at HPE, joins us live from HPE Discover 2017 in Madrid. Miller's responsibilities include heading marketing for HPE's OneView software-defined infrastructure enablement software, SimpliVity hyperconverged platform, and OneSphere multi-cloud management platform. In this interview, Miller discusses HPE's vision for hybrid IT, market progress towards software-defined multi-cloud environments, the benefits of composable infrastructure, and how HPE is enabling Microsoft AzureStack for more customers. For more information on HPE's solutions for hybrid cloud, please visit http://hpe.com/infrastructure.
Kannan Mani, Worldwide Principal Architect for Enterprise Data and Analytics Platforms, at HPE, joins us live from HPE Discover 2017 in Madrid. Mani is responsible for making sure that HPE's customers and partners can effectively deploy performant HPE-based analytics solutions. In this interview, Mani discusses the importance of HPE's and Intel's data center workload verification and optimization efforts to delivering the capabilities that enterprise customers need, how these capabilities are catalyzing discussion with HPE's customers about SQL16 and Gen10 HPE servers, and how HPE's customers are responding to these advances. For more information on HPE's Intel-based analytics solutions, please visit http://www.hpe.com/info/dm-ra. Discover how advanced analytics can help transform your business: intel.com/analytics.
Raphael Davison, Worldwide Director of Blockchain for HPE, joins us live from HPE Discover in Madrid. Davison is responsible for leading HPE's worldwide team to deliver differentiated blockchain technology services. In this interview, Davison talks about what it means to be HPE's worldwide director of blockchain, why blockchain is of interest to HPE's enterprise customers (it's not just about bitcoin), and how products like HPE's Mission Critical Distributed Ledger Technology are enabling blockchain for more customers. For more information on HPE's Intel-based blockchain solutions, please visit hpe.com/security.
Miles Kingston, General Manager of the Smart Home Group at Intel, joins us to discuss enabling amazing new experiences in the Smart Home. Kingston's Smart Home Group helps to provide the building blocks for current and next-generation smart home devices, making it easier for customers to bring new products and innovations to market. In this interview, Kingston talks about the evolution of Intel's vision for the "Smart" home and how AI and cloud computing are moving home devices beyond simply "connected." Kingston additionally discusses how computer vision, AI inference and training in edge devices, and Intel silicon will unlock a range of new use cases improving safety, security, and comfort. For more information on Intel's work to make homes perceptive, responsive, and autonomous, please visit http://intel.com/smarthome.
Satish Iyer, VP of Marketing at Aerospike, joins Intel Chip Chat to discuss how Aerospike worked closely with Intel to ensure that their Hybrid Memory Database was able to take advantage of the performance of the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Aerospike achieved a throughput of 8.8 million transactions per second by refreshing their systems with Intel Xeon Scalable processors and enhancing their software with new capabilities like auto-tuning. Satish talks about why it is so important for their database to have predictable performance and for their customers to have high availability and uptime, which is something Aerospike is well-known for. To learn more about Aerospike and how their software benefits “out of the box” from the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, visit www.aerospike.com, or check out our blog http://intel.ly/2mt7ksr.
Mike Reed, Director of the Blockchain Program Office at Intel, joins us to discuss Intel’s blockchain journey and how Intel technologies provide unique capabilities that can improve privacy, security, scalability, and trust of distributed ledger networks. Mike discusses where blockchain started and what is has come to mean for the industry today. Intel has been engaged on solution development for blockchain since 2014, when the Intel Labs team began development of what was code-named Sawtooth Lake, a modular platform for building, deploying, and running distributed ledgers. Mike also discusses how Intel has been working to make blockchains more secure with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), as well as architecting the perfect foundation for building blockchain solutions with the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
For more information: * Intel Xeon Scalable processors: http://www.intel.com/XeonScalable * Intel® SGX: https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx * Hyperledger Sawtooth: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/sawtooth
David Ko, Senior Product Marketing Manager at GigPeak, joins Intel Chip Chat to discuss how GigPeak’s new HEVC compression solution addresses many of the challenges of streaming video. GigPeak has developed an HEVC compression algorithm specifically optimized to run on the Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 which uses significantly less power and offers a lower cost per stream. The explosion of video streaming puts huge pressure on network bandwidth. HEVC compression delivers bandwidth savings but requires more processing power, space, and cooling requirements. GigPeak’s HEVC algorithm, optimized for the low-power Intel Xeon Processor E3 family with Integrated Iris Pro graphics, addresses many of the problems operators and vendors face when trying to support HEVC.
Note: At the time of this podcast's recording, IDT's acquisition of GigPeak was not yet complete.
Itay Yogev, Intel IT Director of Advanced Analytics, joins us to discuss how Intel IT improves internal processes with advanced analytics to solve high-value business problems. Itay discusses how these advancements have enhanced how Intel designs, manufactures, sells and delivers products to our customers. With differentiated analytics, we can predict the impact of decisions before action is taken, and with advanced analytics, AI can perform cognitive tasks at a sufficient level so humans can take on higher-value tasks. This has increased the accuracy of Intel’s silicon validation processes and manufacturing yield. Itay also shares an example of his teams’ work with the Michael J. Fox Foundation to use wearables and advanced analytics to study the mobility of Parkinson’s patients.
For more information: * Read more about Itay Yogev and Intel IT at https://www.intel.com/IT * Explore Intel data center solutions at https://www.intel.com/analytics/ * Read our white paper “Data In, Value Out – Drive Business Value Through Advanced Analytics”: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/analytics/business-value-through-advanced-analytics-whitepaper.html * View our eGuide “Advance with Analytics, How Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics Can Transform Your Business”: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/analytics/advance-analytics-guide.html?wapkw=eguide
Ricky Branner, Director of High Performance Scale and Emerging Business for Intel, joins us to discuss the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable and Intel Xeon W processors for workstations. An engineer at heart with more than 30 years in the technology industry, Branner helps to drive Intel's workstation business segment -- in his words, to "enable creators to really make a difference." In this interview, Branner outlines the capabilities of Intel's new workstation processors, talks about the heavyweight workloads for which customers are turning to workstations, and gives a preview of what's coming up next from Intel's workstation team. For more information on Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon W processors for workstations, please visit http://intel.com/xeonworkstations.
Configurations: Intel Xeon Scalable processor: Up to 2.71X performance versus a 4 year old workstation. Config: Based on best-published two-socket SPECfp_rate_base2006 result submitted to/published at http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ as of 11 July 2017. New configuration: 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180 Processor on Huawei 2288H V5 with 384 GB total memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 (x86_64) Kernel 4.4.21-69-default, using C/C++ and Fortran: Version 17.0.0.098 of Intel C/C++ and Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux. Source: submitted to www.spec.org, SPECfp_rate_base2006 Score: 1850 compared to 1-Node, 1 node, 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2697 v2 on Cisco Systems Cisco UCS C220 M3 using 128 GB total memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago) 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 C/C++: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel C++ Studio XE for Linux; Fortran: Version 4.0.0.080 of Intel Fortran Studio XE for Linux. Source: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2013q4/cpu2006-20130923-26455.html SPECfp*_rate_base2006 Score: 682
Intel Xeon W processor: Up to 1.87X performance versus a 4 year old workstation. Config: 1-Node, 1 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1680 v2 on Romley-EP with 64 GB Total Memory on CentOS release 6.9 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 using C/C++: Version 14.0.0.080 of Intel C/C++ studio XE for Linux, AVX Data Source: Request Number: 3822, Benchmark: SPECint_rate_base2006, Score: 332 Higher is better; vs 1-Node, 1 x Intel® Xeon® W-2155 Processor on Basin Falls RVP with 128 GB Total Memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 using CPU2006-1.2-ic17.0u3-lin-binaries-20170411. Data Source: Request Number: 3821, Benchmark: SPECint*_rate_base2006, Score: 622 Higher is better
Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance/datacenter.
Dr. Naveen Rao, Vice President and General Manager for the Artificial Intelligence Products Group (AIPG) at Intel, joins us to discuss the Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor (NNP). Dr. Rao leads Intel's cross-company artificial intelligence efforts and works to deliver world-changing AI technologies. In this interview, Dr. Rao shares his excitement for Intel Nervana NNP's ability to transform AI processing through to its unique combination of deep-learning-optimized memory subsystems, Flexpoint integer math operations, and low-latency, high-bandwidth between-chip communications. Dr. Rao further speaks to Intel Nervana NNP's place in Intel's end-to-end AI solution portfolio. For more information on the Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor, please visit http://intelnervana.com.
Daman Oberoi, Program Manager for the Intel® Nervana™ AI Academy, joins us to discuss educating today's and tomorrow's developers and data scientists. The Intel Nervana AI Academy is a one-stop shop for people interested in AI and provides training for developers, students, professors, and scientists at a variety of skill levels. In this interview, Oberoi updates on the AI Academy's progress since its November 2016 start, including the launch of the AI Academy for Professors. Oberoi further speaks to the diverse audiences reached by the AI Academy throughout the world. Oberoi additionally notes the AI Academy's strong training and community offerings for the developer audience, which include worldwide meetups, training webinars, framework optimizations, Kaggle competitions, ML/DL learning kits, and access to the Intel® Nervana™ Devcloud. For more information on the Intel Nervana AI Academy, please visit http://software.intel.com/AI.
Scott Misage, General Manager for the Intel® Omni-Path Business Unit, joins us for an update on Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA). Intel OPA, part of Intel® Scalable System Framework, is a high-performance fabric enabling the responsiveness, throughput, and scalability required by today's and tomorrow's most-demanding high performance computing (HPC) workloads. In this interview, Misage talks about market uptake in Intel OPA's first year of availability, reports on some of the first HPC deployments using the Intel Xeon Scalable platform and Intel OPA, and gives a sneak peek of what Intel OPA will be talking about at SC17. For more information on Intel Omni-Path Architecture, please visit http://intel.com/omnipath.
1:11: More systems in the Top 500 than InfiniBand based on June 2017 Top500 List https://www.top500.org/list/2017/06/. 1:18: Higher percentage of systems in Top100 compared to Infiniband EDR based on June 2017 Top500 List https://www.top500.org/list/2017/06/. 2:01: Better price/performance than Infiniband: Configuration assumes a 750-node cluster, and number of switch chips required is based on a full bisectional bandwidth (FBB) Fat-Tree configuration. Intel® OPA uses one fully-populated 768-port director switch, and Mellanox EDR solution uses a combination of 648-port director switches and 36-port edge switches. Mellanox component pricing from www.kernelsoftware.com, with prices as of April 4, 2017. Compute node pricing based on Dell PowerEdge R730 server from www.dell.com, with prices as of April 4, 2017. Intel® OPA pricing based on pricing from www.kernelsoftware.com as of August 15, 2017 *Other names and brands may be claimed as property of others.
Dave Andersen, associate professor of computer science, joins Intel Chip Chat to discuss the new Intel Science & Technology Center for Visual Cloud Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. Intel is investing more than $4M over the next 3 years to support the development of cloud-based computing systems architecture that can handle the rapidly increasing amount of visual content generated by edge devices, imaging and camera technology. The goal of the center is to accelerate the application of machine learning analytics to huge data sets of video. At the center, researchers are developing methods to analyze video streams at scale with intelligent computing systems and to index and store videos so that they can be readily searched.
Dr. Kyle Ambert, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist at Intel Nervana, joins us to talk about enabling artificial intelligence solutions in the health and life sciences (HLS). Dr. Ambert's team uses machine learning and deep learning methods to solve real-world analytical problems, developing new prototypes and optimization strategies for deep learning networks for text analytics, natural language processing, and image recognition. In this interview, Dr. Ambert talks about his work to deliver AI solutions for doctors and clinicians, highlights important differences between deep learning and traditional machine learning methods, and discusses Intel's ecosystem of tools and technologies that are enabling AI. For more information on Dr. Ambert's work, please visit intelnervana.com.
Recorded live at NAB Show 2017, Mahmoud Al-Daccak, CTO of Haivision, and Tom Diamond, Product Line Manager at Intel, discuss the launch of Haivision’s next generation KB Series HEVC video encoders, powered by the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 family and the new Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator 2 (Intel® VCA2) PCI-e add-in card. At NAB, Haivision and Intel demonstrated an end-to-end VR experience leveraging the Nokia OZO 360° camera. Learn how Haivision’s encoding technologies and Intel’s on-chip graphics capabilities enable companies to stream reliable, high quality, real-time, virtual reality experiences that combine 360-degree viewing with a 3D immersive experience for online audiences.
Join Gabriele di Piazza, Vice President of Products & Solutions, Telco NFV at VMware, and John Healy, VP and General Manager Intel Datacenter Network Solutions Group, in their discussion about the current and desired end-state of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) industry, including the role of open source initiative to drive innovation and lower barriers to deployment, the three areas of collaboration between VMware and Intel – dataplane optimization, security, and solution building – and how to bring together the disparate, yet harmonized assets to meet the unique needs of networks across different verticals. The experience Intel and VMware share in creating software-defined data centers is directly applicable to telecommunication deployments for NFV and SDN. Intel and VMware are collaborating to bring significant technology and domain expertise to support communication service providers in network transformation initiatives.
The guests also discuss the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors as the next-generation platform for cloud-optimized, 5G-ready networks and highlight the performance, security and efficiency benefits to meet operator needs.
For general information, visit: www.intel.com/network or www.vmware.com/go/nvf.
Consumers expect real-time video that’s always on and viewable from anywhere. Niv Kagan, VP of Marketing at Surf Communications Solutions, describes how his company is using next-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors to enable their next-gen video and audio streaming solutions. With the increased video-scale transcoding performance of Intel’s new processors, there’s no need for solution providers to leverage discrete GPUs or customized hardware. End customers benefit from better solutions at lower cost, which means more and more innovative services are available every day. Visit surfsolutions.com for more information.
Remi El-Ouazzane, Vice President at Intel New Technology Group and General Manager of Movidius™, joins us to share his excitement about the Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU (Vision Processing Unit), which launched on August 28th. Movidius joined Intel in late 2016 in order to further its mission to give sight to machines. In this interview, Remi highlights the capabilities of Movidius Myriad X for computer vision and deep learning inference in edge devices and forecasts the end-user application that will be enabled by Movidius Myriad X. Remi also discusses the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, the world's first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained AI accelerator. For more information on the Movidius Myriad X VPU, please visit http://movidius.com/myriadX. For more information on the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, please visit https://developer.movidius.com/.
New media solutions like VR/AR require fast, efficient processing to deliver high-quality video. Eli Lubitch, President of Beamr, discusses how the BEAMR 5 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) application enables real-time software-based encoding that supports 10-bit High Dynamic Range video. The Beamr 5 software encoder leverages the on-chip graphics capability of the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1585 v5 with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics P580 to enable a superior combination of image quality and bitrate. For multi-service operators, satellite providers, and OTT streaming, Beamr’s HEVC software solution and Intel’s on-chip graphics processing technology simplify platform deployments and capture significant performance efficiencies per watt by increasing density.
Stuart Boorn, head of Video Compression Product Management for Ericsson, joins Intel Chip Chat at NAB Show 2017 to discuss Ericsson’s new MediaFirst Video Processing Suite that leverages Intel® Quick Sync Video encoding technology. Launched at NAB Show, Ericsson MediaFirst powers a range of OTT services and gives customers the ability to launch new video services faster than ever before. This new product works closely with Intel graphics technologies to support the evolving and expanding media streaming market. Learn more at www.ericsson.com.
Paul Nash, Group Product Manager for Compute Engine at Google Cloud, joins us to discuss being the first company to bring the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform to the cloud. Google Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that delivers to consumers some of the cloud technologies that Google developed to power services like Google Search and Gmail. In this interview, Nash talks about the decade-long collaboration history between Google and Intel, the Intel Xeon Scalable platform features that have Google most excited, and the benefits customers already are seeing with Intel Xeon Scalable processors and workloads like genomics, weather forecasting, financial services, and scientific visualization. For more information on Google Cloud, please visit https://cloud.google.com/intel and https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/. For more information on the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, please check out the Intel Xeon Scalable platform launch at https://launchevent.intel.com, learn more at https://intel.com/xeonscalable, and look for #XeonScalable on Twitter.
Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager of Intel® Xeon® Products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins us to discuss the launch of two pivotal advances for the data center: the delivery of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and announcement of Intel® Select Solutions. For more information on Intel Select Solutions, please visit https://intel.com/selectsolutions. For more information on the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, please check out the Intel Xeon Scalable platform launch at https://LaunchEvent.intel.com, learn more at https://intel.com/xeonscalable, and look for #XeonScalable on Twitter. To learn more about Hybrid Cloud, please visit www.intel.com/Cloud.
Please visit http://intel.ly/2tzsVkG for more information on performance benchmarks cited in this interview.
Trish Damkroger, Vice President and General Manager of the Technical Computing Initiative for Intel's Data Center Group, joins us to discuss high performance computing (HPC). Damkroger joined Intel in December 2016 after 15 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a leading consumer of HPC technologies. In this interview, Damkroger talks about joining Intel to advocate for the world-changing potential of HPC, the convergence of HPC, big data analytics, and machine learning, and future opportunities that will be unlocked by exascale computing. To learn more about Damkroger's work, please visit https://intel.com/hpc and follow https://twitter.com/IntelHPC.
Bill Hackenberger, Vice President of Data Security at HyTrust, joins us to talk about security with virtualization and across cloud environments. HyTrust has been securing virtualized environments for enterprises since 2007. The company provides workload security, automated compliance, and policy enforcement solutions for multi-cloud infrastructure. In this interview, Hackenberger talks about how the dynamic nature of virtualized cloud environments has dramatically changed the complexity and scope of security policy, encryption, and key management. He explains how Intel® Trusted Execution Technology and HyTrust Cloud Control work together as an attestation server that identifies known and trusted workloads across virtualized environments. Bill also discusses the new IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization service, which is the result of the partnership between HyTrust, IBM, and Intel. For more information on securing mutli-cloud and virtualized environments, please visit www.hytrust.com.
Adam Jull, CEO of global IT services provider IMSCAD, and David Hoff, Cloud Graphics Director at Intel, discuss why companies would want to consider cloud-based workstation deployments and the benefits for their businesses. Intel processor technologies featuring graphics processing units are optimized to support graphics and virtualization technologies in a hosted environment. Intel is working together with IMSCAD and IaaS provider phoenixNAP to offer a trial deployment of hosted workstation applications. Learn more at: https://offers.phoenixnap.com/cloud-based-workstations.
Dr. Mark Gianturco, Chief Technology Officer for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), joins us live from the Intel AI Lounge at SXSW 2017. NCMEC serves as a national clearinghouse for data about missing and exploited children and has closed more than 220,000 missing children cases since 1984. Its CyberTipline has fielded more than 16 million tips about exploited children since 1998, with 15 million tips arriving in just the last four years. NCMEC has teamed with Intel and other industry partners to use technologies like artificial intelligence, deep learning, and enterprise data management to help more children more quickly. In this interview, Gianturco discusses NCMEC's work, how Intel is helping, what the future holds, and how you can support NCMEC's mission to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. To learn more about NCMEC or support their work, please visit http://www.missingkids.com/.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier, Global Managing Director for In-Memory Solutions (incl. HANA/S4HANA) at Accenture, and Mike Ferron-Jones, Product Line Manager for Intel Persistent Memory Solutions, join us to discuss the incredible potential of Intel persistent memory. At SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2017, Intel demonstrated an SAP HANA instance running on a platform utilizing both DRAM and Intel persistent memory. In this discussion, Ferron-Jones talks about Intel persistent memory's most-exciting features, and how large, affordable, non-volatile memory will drive a revolution in application development and service delivery. Then, Dr. Zeier speaks to Intel persistent memory's ability to eliminate memory size bottlenecks and accelerate workloads like machine learning, deep learning, and advanced analytics. Finally, the two discuss Intel's collaboration with Accenture and SAP to ensure that SAP HANA will take full advantage when Intel persistent memory is made available to end customers in 2018. For more information on Intel persistent memory, please read Ferron-Jones' recent post on the IT Peer Network (http://intel.ly/2rnH2X5) and check out the software-development resources at http://pmem.io/.
David Heppe, VP of Product Management at Imagine Communications, joins us to discuss technology transformation in the broadcast industry. Imagine Communications is a leader in technology for broadcast and cable companies around the world, with products that range from networking to playout servers to cloud-based delivery. In this interview, David Heppe talks about the challenges the broadcast industry faces in supporting content delivery on multiple devices and in multiple formats. Imagine’s unified distribution platform supports both OTT and linear platforms with a common back-end, with availability in cloud datacenters powered by Intel® Xeon® Processors with integrated Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics. For more information on end-to-end solutions for content distributions, please visit imaginecommunications.com.
John Healy, Vice President for the Datacenter Group and GM for the Datacenter Network Solutions Group at Intel, joins us live from Mobile World Congress 2017. Healy's Datacenter Network Solutions Group is employing a solutions-centric approach to enable NFV deployments. In this interview, Healy discusses how the conversation at MWC has shifted towards end-to-end solutions and 5G transformation, assesses the network transformation that must occur to deliver end-user experiences like autonomous vehicles and augmented reality, and envisions a future self-provisioning, self-healing, self-securing networking environment. For more information on Intel's work to deliver 5G, please visit http://www.intel.com/5g.
Michelle Bacharach, CEO and Co-Founder of FINDMINE, joins us live from the Intel AI Lounge at SXSW 2017. FINDMINE's "Complete the Look" SaaS uses AI and IoT to intelligently bundle products into outfits, answering the question "How do I wear this?" in real-time more than 4.5 million times per day. In this interview, Bacharach talks about why and how she started FINDMINE, the technologies FINDMINE employs to teach algorithms to create outfits that humans will wear, and her approach to solving business problems with cutting edge technologies. For more information on FINDMINE, please visit https://www.findmine.com/ and follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/findmineus. For more information on how Intel AI and IoT solutions are enhancing shopping experiences, please visit http://intel.ly/2nQEr9r.
Sandra Rivera, Corporate Vice President at Intel and GM of the Network Platforms Group, joins us live from Mobile World Congress 2017. Rivera's Network Platforms Group is responsible for advancing server-based technologies into the networking industry. In this interview, Rivera assesses the industry's progress towards NFV and SDN, discusses how the evolving Internet of Things is driving the need for flexible, programmable infrastructure throughout the network, and reports on some of the most exciting technologies from MWC 2017. For more information on Intel's work to deliver 5G, please visit http://www.intel.com/5g and follow Sandra on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SandraLRivera.
Bryce Olson, Global Marketing Director for the Health and Life Sciences Group at Intel, joins us live from the Intel AI Lounge at SXSW. Olson's unique journey to Intel's HLS Group began with his own stage IV cancer diagnosis. Wanting to work in healthcare, Olson joined Intel HLS, where technologies like genomics and precision medicine "blew [his] mind and changed the whole course of [his] life." Armed with knowledge of cutting-edge treatments that target molecular drivers of cancer, Olson insisted on DNA sequencing and used the results to gain access to a perfect-fit drug trial that shut down his cancer. Olson is now raising awareness for this new way to fight cancer through a new movement called FACTS (Fighting Advanced Cancer Through Songs). Donations (http://intel.ly/2oy6niZ) and a large portion of net proceeds from their first album (http://intel.ly/2oyUf0G) will go towards enabling greater patient expansion into cutting-edge precision medicine trials. In this interview, Olson talks about his own precision medicine journey, helping more people gain access to precision medicine, and how Intel AI will power a new era of cancer discoveries and therapies. To learn more about Intel's work in precision medicine, please visit http://intel.ly/2mVsuLE. To learn more about how you can help increase access to precision medicine trials, please visit http://www.factsmovement.com and follow Olson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bryceolson and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FACTSmovement/.
Paul Davey, CTO Global Telecoms Industry for Atos, and Lynn Comp, Senior Director, Industry & Sales Enabling for the Network Platforms Group at Intel, join us live from Mobile World Congress, 2017. Atos is a digital services leader headquartered in Paris, France, with more than 100,000 employees in 72 countries. In this interview, Davey and Comp discuss Intel's focus on 5G and back-end network infrastructure, reiterate the importance of virtualized networks in realizing the benefits of 5G, and highlight an Atos/Intel collaboration with OEM suppliers to deliver standard, low-cost, virtualized network solutions atop which operators can build new end user experiences. For more information on the Atos/Intel collaboration, please visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com/ecosystem/atos. For more information on Intel's work to power 5G transformation, please visit http://intel.com/5g.
Ian McClarty, President at phoenixNAP, and Jim Blakley, Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel, join us to discuss the present and future of the visual cloud. PhoenixNAP is a global IT leader offering a variety of IaaS and data center services. In this interview, McClarty and Blakley introduce common visual cloud use cases, discuss technologies like Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics and Intel® Quick Sync Video that are powering new visual cloud based end user experiences, and highlight an opportunity to try visual cloud workloads on Intel® Xeon® based systems. For more information on trying visual cloud workloads with phoenixNAP, please visit http://intel.ly/2mjKmPG. For more information on how Intel is powering the visual cloud, please visit http://intel.com/visualcloud.
Sarah Novotny, Program Manager of the Kubernetes Community at Google, joins us live from OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Novotny works to make the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration platform "a fully open and community-run project." In this interview, Novotny talks about the ways that open, independent platforms like Kubernetes benefit customers, the relationship between Kubernetes and OpenStack, how companies are using Kubernetes today, and where Kubernetes is heading in the future. To connect with Kubernetes' developer community, please visit http://slack.kubernetes.io or follow Novotny on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sarahnovotny.
Kenny Johnston, Senior Product Manager for Private Cloud and OpenStack at Rackspace, joins us live from OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Johnston serves as the Alliance Manager for the OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC), an Intel/Rackspace investment that seeks to improve the enterprise readiness of OpenStack. In this interview, Johnston outlines the work OSIC is doing to support OpenStack and its community, reports on OSIC's progress since its mid-2015 launch, and talks about what's next for OSIC and OpenStack. For more information about the OpenStack Innovation Center, please visit https://osic.org/ or follow Johnston on Twitter at http://twitter.com/kencjohnston.
Sixto Cancel, Founder and CEO of Think of Us, joins us to discuss using AI to improve support for foster youth. Think of Us, which started as a commitment to action from the Clinton Global Initiative University, leverages technology, data, and multimedia to improve policy, practice, and outcomes for youth and families. In this interview, Cancel talks about Think of Us’ work to facilitate the transition from foster care to adulthood, Think of Us’ use of AI to identify promising pathways from foster care to self-sufficiency, the organization’s engagement with the technology community at large to find new ways to improve child welfare, and the potential for AI to identify promising pathways from foster care to self-sufficiency. For more information on Think of Us, please visit http://thinkof-us.org/ and follow Cancel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Sixtocancel.
Douglas Coburn, Director of Sales and Sales Engineering at Iron.io, joins us live from OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Iron.io is a leader in the event-driven computing space and the creator of IronWorker, a full platform for event driven computing developed in concert with Intel and other OpenStack partners. In this interview, Coburn talks about Iron.io's collaboration with Intel to use the Snap open telemetry framework to optimize workload provisioning in the cloud. Coburn also discusses Iron.io's efforts to deliver AWS-Lambda-like functionality to OpenStack via the IronFunctions platform. For more information, please visit http://www.iron.io and follow Iron.io on Twitter at http://twitter.com/getiron.
Reuven Cohen, technology executive, entrepreneur, and mentor, joins us live from Intel AI Day in San Francisco. Cohen is a pioneer of the infrastructure-as-a-service space with more than 15 years of experience in cloud computing. In this interview, Cohen discusses how machine learning and intelligent agents are even today transforming how we interact with technology. Cohen further speaks to the evolution of employment in the era of AI and ensuring that technologies like AI result in social good. For more from Cohen, please visit http://ruv.net and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/rUv.
Lila Ibrahim, Chief Operations Officer for Coursera, joins us live from Intel AI Day in San Francisco. Coursera is an international leader in online education, offering more than 1,700 courses to more than 23 million learners worldwide. As first announced at AI Day, Coursera has named Intel as one of its first corporate content partners. Together, Coursera and Intel will develop and distribute courses to democratize access to artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this interview, Ibrahim talks about her and Coursera's history, reports on Coursera's progress delivering education at massive scale, and discusses Coursera and Intel's unique partnership for AI. For more information on Coursera and Ibrahim's work, please visit http://www.coursera.org and follow Ibrahim on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lilaibrahim.
Toby Ford, Assistant Vice President of Cloud Technology, Strategy, and Planning at AT&T, joins us to discuss AT&T's cloud strategy. Ford is one of the architects of AT&T's efforts to move 75% of its network traffic to virtualized network functions by the year 2020. In this interview, Ford talks about why NFV and SDN are so important to meeting customer demand, reports on AT&T's network virtualization efforts thus far, and predicts where AT&T will next focus its virtualization efforts. For more on Ford's work, please visit http://about.att.com/innovation/sdn.
Matt Yurdana, Creative Director for the Internet of Things Experiences Group at Intel, joins us to discuss user interfaces for autonomous vehicles. Intel is working with academic and industry partners to research, design, and prototype the experiences people will have with highly- and fully-automated vehicles. In this interview, Yurdana discusses the critical need to earn consumer trust in autonomous vehicles, envisions the future of in-car experiences as we shift from drivers to passengers, and gives a peek behind the scenes of the Intel user experience labs that are helping define the next era of driving. For more information on Intel autonomous driving technologies, please read our white paper "A Matter of Trust: How Smart Design Can Accelerate Automated Vehicle Adoption," http://intel.ly/2jF8hM6.
Andrew Mitry, Lead for OpenStack and Public Cloud at Walmart, joins us to discuss Walmart's embrace of OpenStack and open source culture. Walmart, the world's largest private employer, supports more than two million employees, eleven thousand stores, and 250 million weekly customers with a 170,000-core, 30-region OpenStack private cloud. In this interview, Mitry talks about engaging with OpenStack's community, adopting open source culture, and how this is enabling Walmart to develop, deploy, and scale new services more rapidly. For more information on Walmart's work with OpenStack, please visit http://walmartlabs.com and http://techbetter.com and follow Mitry on Twitter at http://twitter.com/amitry.
Michael Draugelis, Chief Data Scientist for Penn Medicine, joins us live from Intel AI Day. Penn Medicine's Penn Signals big data platform harnesses machine learning and a data lake of more than three million patient records to identify potential health issues before they can be detected by traditional means. In this interview, Draugelis discusses why Penn Medicine has a Chief Data Scientist, how Penn Medicine's data scientists and clinicians are working together to improve patient outcomes, and how Intel's Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP) is facilitating collaboration across institutions and data standards. For more information on Draugelis' and Penn Medicine's work in AI, please visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/predictivehealthcare/ and follow Draugelis on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mdraugelis.
Sandra Rivera, Vice President and General Manager for the Network Platforms Group at Intel, joins us to discuss network innovation. Significant network transformation progress occurred in 2016, with many large communications service providers moving away from fixed-function hardware and towards standards-based virtualized infrastructure. Rivera reports on this work and talks about how the Network Platforms Group and Intel® Network Builders program are helping drive innovation to pave the way to 5G. Additionally, Rivera looks ahead to the key priorities for network transformation in 2017. For more information on Rivera's work, please visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com/ and follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SandraLRivera.
Gayle Sheppard, General Manager for Saffron Cognitive Systems at Intel, joins us live from Intel AI Day in San Francisco. Saffron, a leader in natural intelligence computing, produces technologies combining machine learning, deep learning, and emerging techniques to automatically find connections in big, sparse, dynamic data sets. In this interview, Sheppard talks about how Saffron's associative learning technology differs from other AI offerings, how Saffron technology is currently being used in the market, and where Saffron is headed in the future. For more information on Saffron's work, please visit http://saffrontech.com and follow Saffron on Twitter at https://twitter.com/saffrontech.
Dr. Bob Rogers, Chief Data Scientist for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Solutions at Intel, joins us to discuss shifting the conversation from big data to artificial intelligence. Intel is unleashing the next wave of AI by delivering advances in compute capacity, algorithm sophistication, and data availability. In this interview, Dr. Rogers theorizes that AI will bring forth not a "rise of the machines," but instead a "rise of the humans," as AI continues to augment human capabilities through intelligent systems like Google Search. Dr. Rogers additionally talks about the ways that the data scientists of today and tomorrow can engage with Intel AI to "bring data to the people." For more information on Dr. Rogers' work, please visit http://intel.com/machinelearning, check out his recent IT Peer Network post, "Rise of the Humans: Augmenting Human Capabilities with Artificial Intelligence" (http://intel.ly/2fM4Guw) and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/scientistbob.
Don Hsi, Chairman for Viscovery, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Viscovery provides cloud based visual content recognition services with applications including contextual advertising, video search, and illegal content filtering. In this podcast, Hsi discusses how deep learning has enabled Viscovery to advance video content recognition. Hsi notes that where earlier video search engines relied on manually tagged search results, Viscovery takes video search to the next level by analyzing seven major content classes: face, image, text, audio, motion, object, and scene. Additionally, Hsi talks about the suite of technologies that make this analysis possible and how customers are already using Viscovery in the wild. For more information on Viscovery's work, please check out Joe Spisak's recent Intel IT Peer Network post "Delivering Full Stack Video Analytics with Viscovery and Quanta" (http://intel.ly/2dS2O2m) and follow Viscovery on Twitter at https://twitter.com/viscovery.
Diane Bryant, EVP/GM for the Data Center Group at Intel, joins us to discuss how Intel is driving the future of artificial intelligence by delivering breakthrough performance from best-in-class silicon, democratizing access to technology, and fostering beneficial uses of AI. Bryant also outlines her vision for AI's ability to fundamentally transform the way businesses operate and people engage with the world. For more information about Intel's work to unleash the next wave of AI, please visit http://intel.com/ai and follow Bryant on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dianebryant.
Hugo Saleh, Director of Marketing and Enabling for Intel's Scalable Datacenter Solutions Group, updates us on recent progress with Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF) and Intel® HPC Orchestrator. Saleh reports that Intel® SSF has facilitated significant progress to deliver HPC capabilities to the masses through an ecosystem that included 31 partners at SC 16. Saleh predicts that 2017 will see Intel® SSF further democratizing HPC with turnkey solutions designed for specific workloads. Saleh additionally shares news about Intel® HPC Orchestrator, a modular, integrated, and validated software stack made available to Intel's partners in October. For more information on Saleh's work, please visit http://intel.com/ssf and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/hugo_saleh.
Dr. Figen Ulgen, General Manager, High Performance Computing Platform Software & Cloud at Intel, joins us to discuss artificial intelligence workloads that are emerging as a result of greater access to high performance computing. Noting that "wherever there is computational complexity, HPC can help," Dr. Ulgen talks about the ways that technologies like voice recognition and natural language processing are growing more sophisticated as compute power increases. Dr. Ulgen additionally highlights Intel's work with the OpenHPC based Intel® HPC Orchestrator, which promises to be an important step forward in making HPC more accessible to a broader array of customers. To learn more about Intel® HPC Orchestrator, please visit http://intel.com/hpcorchestrator.
Doug Fisher, Senior VP and GM of the Software and Services Group at Intel, joins us to discuss Intel's work to accelerate innovation in artificial intelligence. In this interview, Fisher talks about Intel's upstream investments in academia and open source communities. Fisher highlights efforts including the launch of the Intel® Nervana™ AI Academy aimed at developers, data scientists, academia, and startups that will broaden participation in AI. Additionally, Fisher reports on Intel's engagements with open source ecosystems to optimize the performance of the most-used AI frameworks on Intel architecture. For more information on Intel's work in AI, please visit https://software.intel.com/ai and follow Doug on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dougwfisher.
Dr. Michael Voss, Software Architect at Intel, and Robert Geva, Senior Principal Engineer and Compiler Writer at Intel, join us to discuss parallel computing with Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB). Intel® TBB is a C++ library that enables developers to add parallelism to their applications without closely managing threading details. In this interview, Voss and Geva assess the software industry's current use of parallelism, highlight Intel® TBB's ability to optimize parallelized applications for current and future architectures, and report on benefits customers in industries like visual effects, financial services, and healthcare have already realized with Intel® TBB. For more information on Intel® TBB, please visit https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/.
Alex Williams, Founder of The New Stack, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The New Stack is an online technology publication focused on application development and management at scale. In this interview, Alex discusses data center management advances demoed at IDF and talks about the ways that technologies like Snap and Grafana are democratizing telemetry resources that were previously only available in the largest data centers. Alex also shares his views on 5G and how this may lead the broader community to embrace a more distributed cloud infrastructure. For more from Alex, please visit http://thenewstack.io/ and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/alexwilliams.
Nick Weaver, Director of Orchestration Engineering for the Data Center Solutions Group at Intel, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Weaver's work focuses on orchestration, scheduling, and evolving the data center through intelligent automation. In this interview, Weaver discusses rapid adoption of the Snap open telemetry framework. Weaver notes that Snap democratizes access to telemetry data that was previously available only in the largest, most advanced data centers. Additionally, Weaver highlights the benefits and results of Snap's collaboration with Raintank, makers of the popular Grafana open source data visualization dashboard, and talks about the future of data center telemetry and management. For more information on Snap, please visit http://snap-telemetry.io/. For more on Weaver's work, please follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lynxbat.
Dr. Brian Womack, Director of Distributed Analytics Solutions in Intel's Data Center Solutions Group, and Das Kamhout, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, join us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Intel is collaborating with a number of industry partners to deliver SDI technologies to data centers. Womack and Kamhout discuss the ways technologies like the Snap telemetry framework, Intel's Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP), and OpenStack are driving the industry towards a data center that thinks for itself. For more information on their work, follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/briandwomack and https://twitter.com/dkamhout.
Dr. Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow at Intel Labs, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Dr. Dubey's Parallel Computing Lab focuses on compute intensive applications such as machine learning. Dr. Dubey discusses the need to scale infrastructure to meet the growing demands of AI. Where software was once designed to make the right decisions, today it increasingly is designed to ask the right questions. Answering those questions using machine learning can require significant computational resources. Dr. Dubey highlights the ways Intel is accelerating machine learning via projects like the Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (Intel® MKL-DNN), an open source library for deep learning, and Intel-optimized Caffe, a fork dedicated to improving the framework's performance when running on CPUs, especially Intel® Xeon® processors. For more information on Dr. Dubey's work, please visit http://pcl.intel-research.net/.
Robert Blum, Director of Strategic Marketing & Business Development at Intel, Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Director of Engineering at Facebook, and Tom Issenhuth, Optical Network Architect at Microsoft, join us live from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. At the show, Intel announced that Intel® Silicon Photonics is in volume production in the form of 100G optical transceivers on open-standard, MSA (multi-source agreement) modules. The participants discuss the need for optical connectivity in today's hyperscale data centers, best practices for integrating optical connections, and the future migration to higher data rates and new optical standards. For more information on Intel Silicon Photonics, please check out Alexis Bjorlin's blog, "It’s Here: Bringing Light to Intel’s Silicon" (http://intel.ly/2cFlkpc) or visit www.intel.com/siliconphotonics.
Dr. Naveen Rao, VP and GM for Intel Machine Learning Solutions, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Dr. Rao recently joined Intel following the acquisition of Nervana Systems, which Dr. Rao cofounded. Dr. Rao seeks to understand biological computation in order to build smarter, more intuitive devices that interact with us in more natural ways. In this podcast, Dr. Rao discusses his and Nervana's early history, accelerating deep learning workloads with technologies like the Nervana Engine custom processor, and how Intel's acquisition of Nervana will allow Dr. Rao's team to think in completely different ways. For more information on Dr. Rao's work, please visit http://nervanasys.com and follow Nervana at https://twitter.com/nervanasys.
Scott Long, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, and Jonathan Stern, Storage Software Applications Engineer at Intel, join us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco to discuss Netflix' work with Intel to protect viewer privacy. Netflix relies on Intel technologies to deliver more than 35 terabits of video each second to its more than 83 million worldwide customers. Long and Stern talk about the challenge of adding end-to-end encryption to Netflix's vast content delivery network. While the rule of thumb in video delivery is that adding encryption typically doubles computational requirements, Long notes that the Intel® Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (Intel® ISA-L) enabled Netflix to add encryption to its CDN with only a 20-30% increase in computational overhead. For more information, please read Stern's IT Peer Network post "Netflix Ramps Up Encrypted Streaming Using Intel Software" (http://intel.ly/2ctiaG2) and follow Stern on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonsternatintel.
Dr. Pedro Domingos, Professor at the University of Washington, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Dr. Domingos has conducted research in the field of machine learning for more than 20 years. In this interview, Dr. Domingos discusses the critical need for more people to better understand machine learning, progress towards a grand unified theory of machine learning, and how the world may be transformed by computers that are programmed to learn rather than programmed to do. For more information on Dr. Domingos' work, look for his book, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (http://amzn.to/2c8WrlG), and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/pmddomingos.
Dr. Julie Krugler Hollek, co-organizer of PyLadies San Francisco and Data Scientist at Twitter, joins us to discuss efforts to democratize participation in open source communities and the future of data science. PyLadies helps people who identify as women become participants in open source Python projects like The SciPy Stack, a specification that provides access to machine learning and data visualization tools. Dr. Hollek highlights the ways that her own engagement with Pyladies and Hackbright Academy laid the foundation for her current role as a Data Scientist at Twitter. Additionally, Dr. Hollek addresses the importance of ethical data use in creating unbiased data science algorithms. For more information on PyLadies, please visit http://www.pyladies.com/ and follow Dr. Hollek on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jkru.
Lynn Comp, Senior Director of Industry and Sales Enabling for the Network Platforms Group at Intel, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Intel's Network Platforms Group seeks to transform the network to connect and enrich the world. Comp discusses how participants in Intel's Builders programs are developing systems to cope with the data deluge generated by the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communication. Comp also talks about Intel's role in advancing the network infrastructure ecosystem and the first deployments of long-discussed technologies like network function virtualization (NFV), cloud virtual radio access networks (Cloud vRAN), and mobile edge computing (MEC). To learn more, please visit https://builders.intel.com/ and follow Lynn on Twitter at https://twitter.com/comp_lynn.
Mauri Whalen, VP and Director of Core System Development in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel joins us live to discuss highlights from the OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas. Mauri talks about the ways OpenStack's diverse community is driving the development and delivery of one of the world's leading open source cloud operating systems and how the Intel and Rackspace supported OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) is driving innovation, optimization, and adoption of OpenStack. She also highlights how technologies like the Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator (CIAO) are addressing speed and agility barriers. For more information, please visit https://osic.org.
Jeff Hilland, President at DMTF and Barry Kittner, Technology Initiatives Manager at Intel stop by to talk about the role that the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) plays in the development and validation of standards in the IT industry. Jeff specifically highlights Redfish as one of the standards that is becoming one of the main IT infrastructure manageability standard APIs at the element level. Barry talks about how working with the DMTF has allowed the Redfish project to grow at a sustainable rate and how new Redfish extensions for networking have recently been submitted and are currently being processed by the DMTF. Jeff invites anyone attending the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco to stop by the DMTF Redfish booth and catch any of the Redfish and Panel Sessions during the conference to learn more about the present and future of Redfish.
Nidhi Chappell, the Director of Machine Learning Strategy at Intel joins us to announce Intel’s planned acquisition of Nervana Systems to further drive Intel’s capabilities in the artificial intelligence (AI) field. She describes how AI is quickly becoming a mainstream technology and is driving significant change in many industries today evolving common workloads like banking transactions, internet searches, smart factories, and more. Nidhi emphasizes how the expertise of Nervana Systems in deep learning and neural networks has the opportunity to benefit Intel’s AI innovation. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/machinelearning
In this episode Amber Huffman, Intel Fellow and Director of Storage Interfaces in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group at Intel joins us again to discuss hardware infrastructure innovations being driven at Intel. Amber chats about NVM Express PCI Express® SSDs – highlighting features that deliver improved efficiency and scalability, lower latency, and optimized storage. She shares the evolution to NVMe over Fabrics – enabling low latency use of NVMe SSDs across fabrics like Ethernet and OmniPath Architecture. Amber discusses how changes in the cloud are being motivated by a virtuous cycle of storage and networking and explains that the faster we can allow the cloud to take advantage of NVMe* the more we can do with it. For more information visit www.nvmexpress.org or www.intel.com/ssd
Armando Acosta, Hadoop and Big Data Subject Matter Expert for Dell discusses the launch of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with Intel® Xeon® E7-8890 V4 processors and how it is designed for the most demanding enterprise applications such as in-memory databases, enterprise resource planning, and online transaction processing. Armando highlights how Dell customers are looking for maximized application performance and the Dell PowerEdge R930 provides users with incredible predictive failure analysis, which helps customers analyze data quickly and take action before problems occur. Armando discusses the trend of big data analytics providing businesses with faster insights to help improve their business and stay ahead of their competition. To learn more go to www.dell.com/poweredge or follow Armando on Twitter at https://twitter.com/armando75.
In this Chip Chat episode Dr. Tom Bradicich, Vice President and General Manager of Server and IoT Systems at HPE discusses HPE’s use of the Intel Xeon E3 w/ Iris Pro Graphics. HPE is utilizing Intel’s Xeon E3 with Iris Pro Graphics to take their system to the next level and provide the system with 7 primary benefits: lower cost, lower energy, lower space, lower integration risk, higher performance, increased reliability, and only 1 part to manage. Dr. Tom explains that Moonshot is a software defined server platform designed and customized for specific workloads to deliver optimum performance. He talks about the demand from the IT industry to address remote desktop and workplace mobility in the media processing industry and how Intel and HPE are doing just that. To find out more go to hpdiscovery.lab@hp.com or follow HPE on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HPE
In this Podcast James Hsu, Technical Marketing Director at Citrix chats about the collaboration between Intel and Citrix which continues to lead the industry with new and innovative graphics solutions. James discusses the technical and customer benefits of the Intel® Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel® GVT) and the Intel® Xeon® E3-1500 v5 with Citrix XenServer virtualization platform and new Citrix XenDesktop HDX3D Pro Support on Intel. This industry first solution virtualizes the seamless delivery of rich graphics to multiple users from a single Xeon E3 processor with embedded Iris Pro Graphics. Enabling an unmatched level of price-performance to provide “rich graphics for the masses” to boost productivity and collaboration. Finally, James discusses market trends, customer feedback and looks to the future of how Citrix and Intel will continue to innovative in the graphics virtualization market. To learn more, visit www.citrix.com/desktop or follow Citrix on Twitter at https://twitter.com/XenDesktop
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas Kamesh Pemmaraju, Vice President of Product Marketing at Mirantis discusses their collaboration with Intel and other companies to bring more and different functionality to OpenStack. Intel and Mirantis have had long standing collaboration with the goal of accelerating OpenStack development and enabling businesses to easily run and test their workloads on OpenStack to reveal individual use cases that fit each business's specific needs. Kamesh also highlights the Mirantis Unlocked Appliance program and the work they are doing with Supermicro and Quanta QCT to offer unlocked appliances and choice to the industry. To learn more go to https://www.mirantis.com/products/mirantis-openstack-software/ or follow Mirantis on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MirantisIT
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas we are joined by Dirk Peters, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Ittiam and Shantanu Gupta, Director of Business Development for the Media Accelerator Products group at Intel. Dirk talks about the collaboration between Ittiam and Intel to deliver solutions for media consumption and management. They emphasize how Ittiam utilizes Intel’s Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) PCle card because of the incredible cost and flexibility that it provides. To learn more, visit http://www.ittiam.com/ or http://www.intelserveredge.com/intelvca/
In this livecast from National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Muzaffer Beygirci, CEO of nablet and Sven Düking, SVP of Engineering for nablet chat about the company’s current focus on cutting edge video codecs, video transcoding, and image processing technologies on Intel hardware optimized for the broadcast market. They discuss their integration of the Intel® Media SDK (Intel® Media Software Development Kit) with nablet and how it greatly advances their transcoding capabilities including decoding and encoding in the hardware delivering significant improvements in performance. Muzaffer goes over the incredible advantages that these new tools will provide the industry including tailored transcoding for very specific purposes. For more information go to www.nablet.com or follow nablet on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nablet_gmbh
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Shantanu Gupta and Aloni Yossi discuss industry challenges and advances in media graphics and delivery. Shantanu, Director of Business Development for the Media Accelerator Products group at Intel chats about how media processing is moving into the cloud and how the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator allows content providers to utilize the incredible performance of the Intel® Xeon™ processor E5 v3 to provide the performance and scaling necessary for video transcoding workloads. Aloni Yossi, Chief Marketing Officer at ATEME highlights the evolution of ATEME into the media industry and the partnership that they have formed with Intel, combining ATEME’s high quality video compression skills and Intel’s Visual Compute Accelerator (Intel® VCA) PCle card. To learn more go to http://www.ateme.com/
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, Sanjoy Maity, Vice President of MegaRAC - Manageability Solution Division AMI (American Megatrends) discusses AMI’s product development for Rack Scale Architecture. He chats about MegaRAC’s partnership with Intel and Dell to provide Flexible, modular rack-level infrastructure offering compute/storage sleds, built-in networking, shared power & cooling and next-gen management via Rack Scale Architecture and Redfish. This is the first product to include Chinook Extensions to Redfish, facilitating dynamically composed pools of resources. Sanjoy notes that this partnership between Intel and AMI was facilitated by high industry demand. To learn more go to www.ami.com
On this episode of Chip Chat we are joined by Charlie Wuischpard, Vice President of Data Center Group & GM Workstations and High Performance Computing at Intel to discuss Intel’s investment to break down walls to high performance computing (HPC) adoption and move innovation forward by thinking at a system level. Charlie discusses the announcement of the Intel® Xeon Phi processor, which is a foundational element of Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF), as well as Intel® Omni-Path Fabric. Charlie also explains that these enhancements will make supercomputing faster, more reliable, and increase efficient power consumption; Intel has achieved this by combining the capabilities of various technologies and optimizing ways for them to work together. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/SSF
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Jiri Matela, CEO and Co-Founder of Comprimato discusses new JPEG2000 plugin for Intel® Media Server Studio. Comprimato focuses on high quality video decoding and encoding that is precisely optimized for CPU’s and GPU’s. Intel and Comprimato have teamed up to create the best video encoding technology to date. Jiri highlights how the JPEG2000 plugin will be able to handle 4K, 8K, and high frame rates for HDR by combining the massive power of Intel GPUs and advanced analysis tools that help video solution providers deliver fast, high-density media transcoding. To learn more and get a free demo visit www.comprimato.com
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Intel’s Media Segment Director, Nagesh Puppala discusses the enormous growth that visual cloud technologies will bring to various media services. He chats about the growth in media services and the future of video on the internet. Many service providers are seeking high quality content, such as 4K and 8k viewing, which can be delivered to any device anywhere. Intel has been providing solutions across the board, from content creation to content consumption, in order to create an agile infrastructure and employ new service quickly, cost effectively, and efficiently. Nagesh highlights some of the solutions that the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1500 v5 will bring video delivery, both live and streaming. To learn more go to: www.intel.com/visualcloud
Paul Bachteal, Senior Director of Global Technology Practice at SAS stops by to talk about how SAS is working to modernize the analytics process and how underlying solutions in the market are adapting to the changing needs of business. He highlights how the higher core count, greater performance, and larger memory capacity of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v4 is helping to advance the capabilities of machine learning applications and predictive modeling. Paul discusses the importance of democratizing analytics throughout the industry and talks about the work SAS is doing to educate enterprises to ensure that they have the right skill sets and tools to take advantage of the latest analytics solutions and prepare for the growth of machine learning applications. To learn more, visit http://www.sas.com/
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Vladimir Plichko, Product Manager for Intel® Media Server Studio chats about the advances that have been made to Intel® Video Pro Analyzer (Intel® VPA) and Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder (Intel® SBE). These capabilities will bring fast performance for media processing and enable encoding and decoding for 10-bit AVC, without compromising quality. This technology will be perfect for content developers, video professionals, and researchers that want to save time in encoding, decoding, and validation time. Vladimir explains that the new media software capabilities will innovate optimized video and media processing by providing users with a software development kit tailored to enhance video performance. To learn more visit https://software.intel.com/en-us/
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Peter Beecroft, Vice President of IP Video Products at Nokia and Raj Ramamoorthy, Telco Storage Segment Lead Manager at Intel discuss how Nokia & Intel are working together to deliver server based storage in the cloud and specifically the success of Nokia’s Cloud DVR. Peter discusses how Cloud DVR is allowing users to consume the video content they want in different locations with different devices and can offer up to hundreds of petabytes of storage space. Raj and Peter highlight how working with the open source community and particularly open source Ceph implementations to create Cloud DVR has been crucial to achieving the performance necessary and the overall success of the project. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/storage or http://networks.nokia.com/ip-video
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Ana Belova, Vice President of Business Development at RAIDIX stops by to discuss RAIDIX’s offerings in the storage industry providing high performance and increased reliability in the face of potential hardware failures. She emphasizes how important storage is to the broadcasting industry providing a crucial foundation of the infrastructure enabling media processing and delivery. Ana talks about the different demos that RAIDIX is part of at NAB including a live demo in the EchoStreams booth showing a scale out Network-attached storage (NAS) solution called RAIDIX ExaSphere* as well showing 4 different streams of 4K video with different clients. To learn more, visit http://www.raidix.com/ or https://storagebuilders.intel.com/
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Neal Forse, Strategic Marketing Manager for CODEC at Altera chats about the advantages of integrating general purpose servers and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and how FPGAs are helping to drive incredible acceleration with Intel x86 technologies. He discusses how performance intensive FPGA integrations with Intel® Xeon® processors allow equipment vendors and manufacturers to build out best-in-class algorithms to achieve incredibly high quality video compression and performance while enabling highly increased density. Neal highlights how the Altera booth at NAB showcased their new video IP and reference design called UDX 10 that is helping customers to build very high quality baseband video processing. To learn more, visit https://www.altera.com/
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Mark Buxton Intel Media Software Development Products Director at Intel stops by to talk about how Intel is delivering new and improved video analytics and HEVC (high efficiency video coding) encoding tools as well as SDKs (software development kits) and run time components through the Intel® Media Server Studio to enable software developers to drive the next generation of video. He highlights how Intel has made available a free community edition of the Intel® Media Server Studio in addition to the professional version which provides advanced analysis tools to enable an easy transition to HEVC. Mark also presents some new releases including the Intel® Video Pro Analyzer (Intel® VPA) and the Intel® Stress Bitstreams and Encoder (Intel® SBE) which are high end tools designed for coding experts and video engineers to really tune up the video quality and robustness of their video decoders. To learn more, search online for Intel® Media Server Studio.
In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Jim Blakley Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel stops by to talk about the incredible advances that are being made in the visual cloud. He outlines how the visual cloud really covers three main areas of focus including media content creation and delivery, cloud graphics for gaming and virtual desktops, and finally visual understanding which enables image recognition and augmented or virtual reality. Jim highlights how recent advances in cloud computing, a growth in visual computing technologies like deep learning and media transcoding, and the availability of network bandwidth and growth of storage capacity in cloud environments has really helped to catalyze the visual cloud. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/visualcloud
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Austin Texas, Jonathan Donaldson Data Center Group Vice President and General Manager of Software Defined Infrastructure at Intel stops by to talk about the incredible innovation in cloud computing and the use of Kubernetes and OpenStack to help drive the adoption of enterprise cloud. He discusses how this integration is helping to accelerate hybrid and private cloud allowing workloads to be seamlessly managed across shared infrastructure creating a platform that can be used for any application workload. Jonathan also highlights how important it is that this integration happens in an open source environment so that the entire OpenStack community benefits and drives innovation and the deployment of tens of thousands of new clouds. To learn more, follow Jonathan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jdonalds.
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Austin Texas, Alex Polvi CEO of CoreOS stops by to talk about the idea of Google’s Infrastructure For Everyone Else (GIFEE) which is a style of infrastructure management that has been proven by the hyperscale giants like Google to provide a very reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. He highlights the collaboration between Intel and CoreOS to deploy and manage OpenStack with Kubernetes in this same GIFEE management style to help drive the creation of many more enterprise clouds. Alex outlines how this collaboration enables organizations to re-platform and move their workloads to the cloud through the use of containerization and achieve similar reliability, scalability, and efficiency as a Google or Amazon based cloud.
In this livecast from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Javier Ramon, Head of Network Virtualization at Telefónica, stops by to chat about the value of network virtualization and Telefónica’s open source MANO platform (OpenMANO) designed to drive development of virtualized network functions (VNFs) in a vendor-neutral manner. He points out that the OpenMANO community is already backed by 23 companies and is enabling providers to easily test and develop VNFs as well as rapidly customize and deploy multiple environments. Javier describes how OpenMANO and other Telefónica technologies are paving the way for early implementation for 5G by enabling network innovation and flexibility. To learn more, visit https://osm.etsi.org/.
Scott Harrison, Global Account Director for the Solution Provider Organization at Intel and Andrew Hopkins, Managing Director – Accenture Mobility, Internet of Things join us on Chip Chat to discuss how Intel and Accenture collaborate to drive adoption and scale of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and services. Andrew highlights the long-standing history between Intel and Accenture emphasizing the potential for IoT to dramatically impact every industry and the opportunity for Intel and Accenture to drive ecosystem collaboration to deliver the true value of IoT to enterprises. Scott discusses how Accenture’s strengths of customizing applications for different vertical markets, excellent solution integration, and business transformation create a quicker path to market driving greater adoption of Intel technologies as complete solutions in the IoT space. They describe several of the collaborative solutions that the two companies are showcasing, including a Connected Asset Management solution available for demonstration at the Hannover Messe world’s trade fair for industrial technology April 25-29th and invite attendees to join them in the Intel booth for more information. To learn more, visit https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-unifies-and-simplifies-connectivity-security-for-iot/
In this livecast from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, John Healy, GM of the Software Defined Networking Division in the Network Platforms Group at Intel, discusses the theme of 5G and open source advancements. He emphasizes how open source projects like Open Source MANO (OSM) and FD.io “Fido” are bringing community of innovators together to expand and add more features and functionalities based on open standards for interoperability. John also explains Intel’s role in contributions to open source projects and what is Intel doing to provide platform telemetry data into the orchestrator with Intel® Open Network Platform. To learn more, visit: www.networkbuilders.intel.com
In this livecast from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Stephan Litjens, Senior Vice President of Innovation Steering at Nokia stops by to talk about the transformation of mobile technologies that is happening in the market today and the MulteFire Alliance recently formed to enhance wireless performance. He describes how important consistent connectivity and security are for critical use cases like healthcare IoT in hospitals and large gatherings at stadiums and sporting events. Stephan also emphasizes how Nokia and Intel are collaborating on pre-standard 5G radio technologies and network solutions to enable early implementation of both 5G mobile client and wireless infrastructure.
James Reinders, Director and Architect for Parallel Programming Models at Intel discusses the importance of parallel programming, and his excitement over the option now for “hands-on” learning and development using the “Ninja” Platforms with the very new Knights Landing processors. He also offers some insights into the three angles from which James thinks about teaching and learning parallel programming. To learn more, visit http://xeonphideveloper.com, http://lotsofcores.com and http://parallelbook.com.
Lisa Spelman, Vice President of Marketing for the Data Center Group at Intel announces the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family at the Intel Cloud Day event in San Francisco. Offering unparalleled versatility across a wide variety of data center workloads, Lisa emphasizes how exciting the new features incorporated into this processor are for delivering new capabilities in the cloud. Features like Intel® AVX2 (Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2) and Intel® Resource Director Technology are enabling the next leap in performance and capabilities for software defined infrastructure (SDI) and the cloud. She also talks about the launch of two new high performance solid state drives (SSDs) in the Intel® SSD Data Center Family delivering breakthrough performance to mission critical data and reinforcing the foundation of the cloud.
In this livecast from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Geoff Hollingworth, Head of Product Marketing for Cloud at Ericsson stops by to talk about 5G and the transformation happening in the network. He discusses Ericsson’s announcement of a global partnership with Quanta working to combine Quanta’s ability make very efficient and cost effective hardware with Ericsson’s ability to create outstanding software. Geoff also highlights how he believes that now is one of the best eras in history for software developers because of the rapid pace of innovation and potential for growth today. To learn more, visit www.ericsson.com/hyperscale
In this livecast from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Lynn Comp, Director of Market Development for the Network Platforms Group at Intel stops by to talk about how telecommunications (telco) cloud and the cloudification of the network is rapidly becoming a reality. She explains how telco cloud is providing operators with greater flexibility, agility, and scalability in comparison with traditional architectures through a nimble software-based service delivery model. Lynn highlights how network function virtualization is a key piece of the transformation to telco cloud and predicts that in 2016 we may see core NFV workloads like customer premise equipment (CPE), integrated multi-messaging system (IMS) and evolved packet core (EPC) being deployed in mass throughout the industry. To learn more, follow Lynn on Twitter https://twitter.com/comp_lynn.
In this livecast from the Structure Conference in San Francisco David Clarke, Senior Vice President of Technology Development at Workday joins us to talk about how rapidly enterprises are adopting cloud technology for mission critical workloads. He outlines how architecting their platform with the use of in-memory technology and to be metadata driven has allowed Workday to deliver enterprise-class capabilities with the flexibility and agility needed to deal with a quickly growing customer base. David also talks about how Workday has been one of the lead adopters of OpenStack and that the valuable ability to control and influence the virtualization and operating technology in their data center has made OpenStack the clear choice. To learn more, visit www.workday.com.
In this livecast from the Structure Conference in San Francisco Florian Leibert, CEO & Founder of Mesosphere talks about how he helped to build the next generation Twitter platform on an Apache Mesos project creating one of the first open platforms for turning a data center into a high performance and easy-to-use private cloud. He outlines how Mesosphere was started in order to help make Apache Mesos easier to use allowing users to deploy, manage and scale services, organizing their entire infrastructure as if it was a single computer. Florian highlights Mesosphere’s new Data Center Operating System (DCOS) that allow users to bring many data center services and applications onto a private or public cloud while avoiding vendor lock in. Florian also calls out the deep collaboration between Intel and Mesosphere including the Cloud For All initiative and other work that enhances Mesos and makes it more usable for a wide variety of use cases and workloads. To learn more, follow Mesosphere on Twitter https://twitter.com/mesosphere or message info@mesosphere.com.
In this livecast from the Structure Conference in San Francisco Jonathan Donaldson, VP of Data Center Group and GM Software Defined Infrastructure at Intel chats with us about Intel’s Cloud For All Initiative that is accelerating broad proliferation of the cloud and will unleash tens of thousands of new clouds for a variety of usage models across the world. He discusses how the initiative is investing heavily into open source innovation through efforts with Rackspace and Mirantis. Jonathan also describes how Intel is working to optimize the underlying hardware for the software defined infrastructure (SDI) stack by transforming datacenter capabilities through optimized silicon, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), 3D XPoint™ technology, and other solutions to address demands of the workloads. To learn more, follow Jonathan on Twitter https://twitter.com/jdonalds.
In this livecast from Structure conference in San Francisco Joe Weinman, Author, Keynote Speaker, Analyst, Consultant and Board Member stops by to discuss how this year’s Structure conference is an amazing collection of some of the top minds in the business discussing the state of the cloud today. He points out that Structure is a great place to learn about cloud deployments of all kinds, from global enterprise focused down to how startups are leveraging the cloud to accelerate innovation and bring products to market more quickly. Joe also discusses several of his most recent publications and how the transformational power of information technology (IT) and the cloud are enabling many companies to differentiate themselves and create enormous wealth and customer value. To learn more, you can find Joe’s books at many retail outlets and online.
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Ravi Varanasi, General Manager of Cloud Security Solutions at Intel discusses the importance of security to enable enterprise grade OpenStack. He emphasizes that when a company utilizes OpenStack they receive the benefit of thousands of developers working within the ecosystem to develop the strongest, most robust, most secure product they can build. Ravi also describes how OpenStack can be the catalyst for ensuring that enterprise workloads run on an Intel architecture that is optimized to provide a chain of trust, encryption, and key management solutions to help secure those workloads from many different kinds of compromises.
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Darrin Hanson, Vice President and General Manager of OpenStack Private Cloud at Rackspace joins us to talk about the new OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) and the deep collaboration between Intel and Rackspace to accelerate OpenStack development and adoption. He outlines how the collaboration aims to create an environment committed to improving OpenStack in a fully opened source way serving as a launching pad to make OpenStack and all cloud available to everyone in the industry. Darrin highlights the 2,000-node cluster that is available to the public to support large-scale testing of OpenStack and any new features developed through the joint engineering work. He also discusses how Rackspace and Intel will resource OpenStack development, working in collaboration with the OpenStack Enterprise Work Group and community, targeting bug elimination and the development of new enterprise features. To learn more or become an OpenStack contributor, visit http://go.rackspace.com/developercloud
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Chris Buerger, a Technologist in the SDN Marketing Organization at Intel discusses how OpenStack is playing a large role in the transformation that is currently taking place in the network. He outlines how Intel is focusing on contributing to a set of capabilities called Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) and that these capabilities are already incorporated into a number of OpenStack networking projects including Neutron and Nova. Chris talks about how Intel is working to implement different capabilities that enhance OpenStack orchestrated networks to achieve line-rate throughput and that there are already twelve or so capabilities delivered through EPA that help achieve the performance needed for a carrier grade OpenStack environment. To learn more, visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com/
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Michael Aday, a Director in the Helion team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stops by to chat about how HPE works very closely with OpenStack and highlights some of the different HPE Helion solutions available. He emphasizes how Intel and HPE are collaborating to create Ceph extensions for non-volatile memory that help scale enterprise storage. Michael also discusses the joint Intel and HPE solutions center in Grenoble France and the work that the two companies are doing to optimize cloud solutions for the enterprise market. To learn more, visit www.HPE.com/helion
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Jim Sangster, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing at Mirantis stops by to talk about their collaboration with Intel’s Cloud for All initiative helping to forge a roadmap to make OpenStack incredibly viable for enterprise and to provide more advanced enterprise features. He outlines the Mirantis Unlocked Appliance program for cloud native applications that provides turnkey rack-based appliance solutions designed for developing and deploying cloud native applications and container-based environments at scale. This can give customers reduced risk in deployment of OpenStack because it is delivered completely turnkey and certified by Mirantis. To learn more, visit www.mirantis.com
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Dan Ferber, Open Source Server Based Storage Technologist at Intel and Ross Turk, Director of Product Marketing for Red Hat stop by to talk about Ceph and how it plays a critical role in delivering the full enterprise capability of OpenStack. Ross explains how Ceph allows you to build storage using open source software and standard servers and disks providing a lot of flexibility and enabling you to easily scale out storage. By lowering hardware costs, lowering the vendor lock-in threshold, and enabling customers to fix and enhance their own code, open source and software defined storage (SDS) solutions are enabling the future of next generation storage. To learn more, visit www.redhat.com/storage
Jeff Autor, a Distinguished Technologist with the Servers Business Unit at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stops by to talk about Redfish 1.0 and how HPE has implemented the Redfish 1.0 specification on their HPE ProLiant Gen9 server family as an HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) firmware update. He points out that iLO serves as the nerve center of HPE ProLiant servers that acting as the control service for the server engaging in health monitoring, power and thermal control, and remote administration. Jeff highlights how the integration of Redfish into iLO enables a programmable platform that provides customers with a wealth of information about the status of the server and greatly improves interoperability with existing standards among vendors. To learn more, visit www.hpe.com/info/ilo
Bev Crair, DCG Vice President and General Manager of the Storage Group at Intel stops by to chat about how Intel is driving the storage transformation with new technologies like 3D Xpoint ™ and the Intel® Xeon® processor D-1500 product family. She describes how traditional storage solutions and legacy systems haven’t had the flexibility that customers need now, hindering their hyperscale web environments. Bev emphasizes that the Intel® Xeon® processor D-1500 product family offers service provides and enterprise IT new choices for data center optimization by bringing the performance and advanced intelligence of Intel Xeon processors into a dense, low power system-on-a-chip (SoC) form factor. To learn more, visit www.Intel.com/storage or follow Bev on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bcrair.
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Reddy Chagam, a Principal Engineer with the Data Center Group at Intel and Urayoan Irizarry a Consultant Software Engineer at EMC stop by to chat about the importance of software defined storage (SDS) to OpenStack and the delivery of software defined infrastructure (SDI) within the data center. They highlight EMC’s new open source storage controller based on EMC’s ViPR controller called CoprHD (copper head). The two emphasize how CoprHD centralizes and transforms multi-vendor storage allowing end customers to deploy various environments in a simplified manner that is fully compatible with OpenStack. To learn more, visit www.coprhd.org
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Ruchi Bhargava, Engineering Manager and Hybrid Cloud Program Owner at Intel stops by to talk about Intel’s work within the OpenStack community and how we’re seeing a lot more large scale deployments of OpenStack within Enterprise. She highlights how Intel’s Cloud for All Initiative is working to remove any barriers to Enterprise adoption of OpenStack and is dedicating two 1,000-node clusters that will be open to all developers in the community to test their code at scale with the objective of improving the overall scalability and performance of the OpenStack platform. Ruchi also talks about how Intel is working with Rackspace to assemble developer teams through the OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) that will work to address the key challenges facing the Openstack platform and further enable OpenStack adoption in Enterprise. To learn more, follow Ruchi on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ruchi_bhargava
Bill Mannel, Vice President and General Manager for High Performance Computing and Big Data from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stops by to chat about the High Performance Computing (HPC) Alliance between HPE and Intel. He highlights how the two companies are developing innovative solutions based on Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF) and are working to enhance HPC solutions while engaging customers directly in centers of excellence (COEs) located in Grenoble, France and Houston, Texas. Bill also emphasizes how HPE compute solutions are experiencing incredible momentum in government, commercial and academic market verticals and that HPE is receiving excellent results from the integration of HPE Apollo products and Intel HPC technology. To learn more, visit www.hpe.com/info/apollo or www.intel.com/SSF.
Karl Schulz, Principal Engineer of the Enterprise High Performance Computing Group at Intel discusses the OpenHPC community effort to provide an integrated collection of high performance computing (HPC) centric components that can be used to provide full-featured reference HPC software stacks. He illustrates how open source has historically been very prominent in HPC and how it is critical for HPC to continually innovate and evolve at such a rapid rate. Karl explains how providing new HPC-centric packages through OpenHPC will enable both open-source and proprietary software vendors to focus on innovation of HPC systems and in turn benefit the entire HPC community. To learn more, visit http://www.openhpc.community/
Barry Davis, GM of the High Performance Fabrics Operation at Intel chats about how today’s requirements for high performance computing (HPC) fabrics are outstripping the capabilities of traditional fabric technologies in performance, reliability, and economic feasibility. He highlights how Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) is delivering performance for tomorrow’s high performance computing (HPC) workloads and has the ability to scale to tens and eventually thousands of nodes at competitive price to today’s fabrics. Barry illustrates that Intel® OPA is a foundational element of the Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF) and will continue to drive higher performance, lower latency, and more bandwidth across the Intel CPU roadmap. To learn more, visit http://www.intel.com/ or talk to your local Intel sales person.
Dawn Moore, General Manager of the Networking Division at Intel stops by to chat about the launch of the new Intel® Ethernet Multi-host Controller FM10000 Family and how it is enabling Network Transformation. She describes how the new 100Gbps Ethernet multi-host controller will better enable efficient network functions virtualization (NFV) applications and deliver exceptional packet processing capability significantly reducing performance bottlenecks between servers. Dawn also mentions that the Intel® Ethernet Multi-host Controller FM10000 Family enhances industry leading Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) technology with new acceleration enhancements. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/Ethernet.
In this livecast from OpenStack Summit Tokyo Radhesh Balakrishnan, General Manager of OpenStack at Red Hat, stops by to talk about the work that Red Hat and Intel are doing to deliver a carrier ready OpenStack infrastructure and ensure that the full set of stack options required for an open NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) infrastructure are available. He outlines the collaboration between Intel and Red Hat in the Intel® Network Builders Fast Track program delivering end to end optimized, integrated, and interoperable solutions for NFV and SDN (Software Defined Networking). Radhesh also highlights that there are many proofs of concept that Intel and Red Hat are currently engaged in and that we can expect to see production deployments become fairly common by the second half of 2016. To learn more, visit www.redhat.com
Paul Stevens, Marketing Director in the Networks & Communications Group at Advantech discusses how the launch of the new Intel® Xeon™ processor D-1500 product family is playing a large role in enabling the adoption of network functions virtualization (NFV) and the overall Network Transformation. He highlights how this release allows Advantech to better provide a wide range of solutions that customers can choose from to best fit their performance and cost requirements. Paul emphasizes how the Intel® Xeon™ processor D-1500 product family is enabling Advantech to bring Xeon™ class performance and intelligence from the core of the network all the way to the network edge. To learn more, visit http://www.advantech.com/nc
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco James Reinders, Director and Chief Evangelist of Intel Software, at Intel chats about his work to educate the industry about parallel programming and how the modern code community and parallelism is rapidly growing in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry. He explains how the work that Intel is doing with the Modern Code Developer Community is enabling the broader developer community to gain skills needed to unlock the full potential of Intel hardware and enable the next decade of discovery in parallel computing. To learn more, follow James on Twitter https://twitter.com/jamesreinders
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Ravi Varanasi, General Manager of Cloud Security Solutions at Intel stops by to talk about how Intel is enabling a hardware root of trust to fortify data center security. He describes how Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology (CIT) uses Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and Intel® Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to perform integrity checks that form a chain of trust that runs from system boot, all the way to the VMs & the workloads that run on the platform. Ravi also mentions the Data Security Appliance (DSA) which provides data deduplication, compression and encryption while allowing the enterprise to retain control and ownership over their data.
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Bryce Olson, Director of Marketing for the Health and Life Sciences Group at Intel stops by to discuss the IDF announcement of a precision medicine analytics platform called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud that allows institutions to share patient genomic data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. He emphasizes how this platform will empower researchers and doctors to help patients receive a diagnosis based on their individual genome and proceed to a targeted treatment plan. Bryce describes how it is the Collaborative Cancer Cloud goal to enable this genomic mapping and diagnosis to happen within a matter of 24 hours by the year 2020. He outlines how precision medicine has personally helped him in his battle against cancer and hopes that the work Intel is doing to drive targeted precision medicine will enable researchers and doctors to help more people across the world. To learn more, read a Collaborative Cancer Cloud blog here: http://intel.ly/1HWNvHy or contact Bryce on twitter https://twitter.com/bryceolson
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Lynn Comp, Director of the Market Development Organization for the Network Platforms Group at Intel, stops by to chat about how exciting it is to be on the cutting edge of the network transformation. She discusses how the new Intel® Network Builders Fast Track program will accelerate network innovation and interoperability through solutions blueprints publications, performance optimizations, Intel® Network Builders University classes, and multi-party interoperability testing. Lynn talks about how there has been a shift of focus from defining software defined infrastructure within the enterprise to optimization within the entire stack and how many service providers are exploring implementing one platform, like OpenStack, that can run all of their workloads. To learn more, follow Lynn on Twitter https://twitter.com/comp_lynn
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Bev Crair, Vice President and General Manager of the Storage Group at Intel and Bill Moore, President of DSSD at EMC stop by to chat about how 3D XPoint™ and the recently announced Intel® Optane™ technology are driving a transformation in the memory and storage landscape today. Bill highlights how 3D XPoint will help enable the design of entirely new storage systems that haven’t been possible before. Bev emphasizes how exciting it is that these breakthroughs in technology will allow us to solve completely new problems like sequencing a genome in a fraction of the time it takes today. She explains how these breakthroughs will drive advances in data analytics and potentially save many lives as we move into the future. To learn more, follow Bev on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bcrair
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, Dr. Genevieve Bell Intel Fellow and VP stops by to talk about the maker movement and how in the last 15 years there has been a resurgence in the physical maker movement linked closely with virtual and digital innovation. She explains how Intel is deeply engaged with the maker movement and how Intel can actually trace its beginnings back to the maker movement. Genevieve also emphasizes how wonderful it is to see such a wide range of diversity within the speakers and attendees at the Intel Developer Forum and how diversity helps to make Intel a better company, a more interesting place to work, and suggests incredible possibility.
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco PK Gupta, Director of Cloud Platform Technology at Intel stops by to chat about how his team is working to integrate FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) into Intel® Xeon® processors. He explains that integrated FPGAs can greatly improve performance for targeted workloads and are able to be programmed on the fly which enables them to target a wide array of workloads in the data center. PK talks about how Intel has created a Hardware Accelerator Research Program that is making integrated FPGA + Xeon software development platforms available to the academic and researching community. He outlines how this program will help spur research in FPGA programming research and development of innovative applications for accelerator-based computing systems.
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Mike Ferron Jones, Director of Datacenter Platform Technology Marketing and Greg Matson, Director of SSD Strategic Planning and Product Marketing at Intel discuss the announcement of Intel® Optane™ technology based on Intel’s new 3D XPoint™ technology. They outlined how 3D XPoint technology is an entirely new class of nonvolatile memory that will revolutionize storage enabling high-speed, high-capacity data storage close to the processor. This technology will be made available as SSDs (solid state drives) called Intel Optane technology, as well as in a DIMM (dual in-line memory module) form factor which will open up new possibilities of types of workloads and applications that you can accelerate or take to whole new levels of big memory applications. Greg emphasizes that Intel will be making Optane SSDs available for servers, enthusiast clients, and laptops within 2016.
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco John Leung, Software & System Architect at Intel and Jeff Autor, Distinguished Technologist with the Servers Business Unit at HP stop by to discuss the release of RedFish 1.0. They highlight how on August 4th 2015 the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force Inc) announced the availability of RedFish version 1.0, an adopted and approved industry standard interface which simplifies the management of scalable compute platforms, and is extensible beyond compute platforms. John and Jeff emphasize how RedFish 1.0 is a great example of what can be accomplished when technology leaders, along the supply chain, truly listen to requests and feedback of end-users, and come together satisfy those request in an open and broad manner.
Jim Blakley, Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel chats about how Intel is driving innovation in visual cloud computing. He talks about the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) and announces the launch of the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator, the new Intel® Xeon® E3 – based PCIe add-in card that brings media and graphics capabilities into the Intel Xeon processor E5-based servers. Jim outlines how the Intel Visual Compute Accelerator Card enables real time transcoding specifically targeting AVC and HEVC workloads and reduces the amount of storage and network bandwidth needed to deliver the transcoded video streams. He also highlights several partners that will be demoing Intel technology or in the Intel booth at IBC including; Thomson Video Networks, Envivio, Kontron, Artesyn, and Vantrix. To learn more, follow Jim on Twitter https://twitter.com/jimblakley
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Das Kamhout, Principal Engineer and SDI Architect at Intel discusses the Intel Cloud for All Initiative and how Intel is working to enable tens of thousands of new clouds for a variety of usage models across the world. Das illuminates a concept he covered in his IDF session contrasting more traditional types of cloud infrastructure with a new model of cloud based upon the use of containers and the ability to run an application by scheduling processes across a data center. He explains how container based cloud architectures can create a highly efficient delivery of services within the data center by abstracting the infrastructure and allowing application developers to be more flexible. Das also highlights how Intel is investing in broad industry collaborations to create enterprise ready, easy to deploy SDI solutions. To learn more, follow Das on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dkamhout
In this livecast from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Curt Aubley, VP and CTO of Intel’s Data Center Group stops by to talk about some of the top trends that he sees in data center technology today. Curt emphasizes how the fundamental shift in capabilities in the data center is enabling businesses to create an incredible competitive differentiator when they take advantage of emerging technologies. He brings up how new technologies like Intel’s 3D XPoint™ are creating an amazing impact upon real time analytics and calls out how dynamic resource pooling is helping to drive a transformation in the network and enable the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to remove networking performance bottlenecks. Curt highlights many other data center technology trends from rack scale architecture (RSA) and intelligent orchestration to cutting edge security technologies like Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology.
Caroline Chan, Director of Wireless Access Strategy and Technology at Intel stops by to talk about the shift to 5G within the mobile industry and how the industry will need to solve more challenges than just making the cellular network faster to make this shift possible. She stresses that there needs to be a focus on an end to end system that will enable the communications and computing worlds to merge together to create a more efficient network and better business model overall. Caroline also discusses possible upcoming 5G related showcases that will happen in Asia within the next 3-7 years and how Intel is collaborating immensely with many initiatives in Europe, Asia, and around the world to help drive the innovation of 5G.
John Healy, General Manager of the Software Defined Networking Division within Intel’s Network Platforms Group stops by to chat about the current network transformation that is occurring and how open standards and software are integral to building the base of a new infrastructure that can keep pace with the insatiable demand being put on the network by end users. He illustrates how Intel is driving these open standards and open source solutions through involvement in initiatives like OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and the development of Intel Network Builders to create interoperability and ease of adoption for end-users. John also highlights the Intel® Open Network Platform and how it has been awarded the LightReading Leading Lights award for being the most Innovative network functions virtualization (NFV) product strategy technology.
Alan Ross, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel outlines how quickly the amount of data that enterprises deal with is scaling from millions to tens of billions and how gaining actionable insight from such unfathomable amounts of data is becoming increasingly challenging. He discusses how Intel is helping to develop analytics platform-as-a-service to better enable flexible adoption of new algorithms and applications that can expose data to end users allowing them to glean near real-time insights from such a constant flood of data. Alan also illustrates the incredible potential for advances in healthcare, disaster preparedness, and data security that can come from collecting and analyzing the growing expanse of big data.
Francisco Araya, Development and Operations Research & Development Lead at KIO Networks stops by to talk about how KIO Networks has delivered one of the first public clouds in Latin America based in OpenStack. He mentions that when Kio Networks first started implementing OpenStack it took about 2 months to complete an installation and now, thanks to the strong OpenStack ecosystem, it only takes about 3 hours for his team to complete an installation. Francisco emphasizes how the growing amount of OpenStack offerings and provider use cases greatly increases the ease and confidence when implementing OpenStack.
Rob Crooke, Senior VP and GM of NVM Solutions Group at Intel, discusses how Intel is breaking new ground in a type of memory technology that is going to help solve real computing problems and change the industry moving forward. This disruptive new technology is significantly denser and faster than DRAM and NAND technology. Rob outlines how this non-volatile memory will likely be utilized across many segments of the computing industry and have incredible effects on the speed, density, and cost of memory and storage moving into the future. To learn more, visit http://www.intel.com/ and search for ‘non-volatile memory’.
In this livecast from Big Telecom Sandra Rivera, Vice President and General Manager of the Network Platforms Group at Intel chats about the network transformation occurring within telecommunications and enterprise industries. She talks about how moving to an open industry standard solution base has created a shift in the industry paradigm from vertically integrated purpose built solutions supplied by one provider to a model where end users can choose best of breed modules from a number of different providers. This network transformation is providing a number of new business opportunities for many telecom equipment and networking equipment manufacturers. To learn more, follow Sandra on Twitter https://twitter.com/sandralrivera.
Bill Mannel, General Manager and Vice President at Hewlett-Packard, stops by to discuss the growing demand for high performance computing (HPC) solutions and the innovative use of HPC to manage big data. He highlights an alliance between Intel and HP that will accelerate HPC and big data solutions tailored to meet the latest needs and workloads of HPC customers, leading with customized vertical solutions. Experts from both companies will be working together to accelerate code modernization of customer workloads in verticals including life sciences, oil and gas, financial services, and more. To learn more, visit www.hp.com/go/hpc.
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Das Kamhout, Principal Engineer and SDI Architect at Intel, stops by to chat about democratizing cloud computing and making some of the most complicated cloud solutions available to the masses. He outlines key changes occurring in cloud computing today like automation and hyperscale, highlighting how key technologies like OpenStack enable smaller cloud end users to operate in similar ways as some of the largest cloud using organizations. To learn more, follow Das on Twitter https://twitter.com/dkamhout.
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Mauri Whalen, VP & Director of Core System Development in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel, discusses how beneficial open source software innovation like Open Stack is and how the collaborative process helps produce the highest quality code and software possible. She also discusses the importance of initiatives like the Women of OpenStack and how supporting diversity within the open source community enables an overall better end product and ensures that all populations are represented in the creation of different solutions.
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Cathy Spence, Principal Engineer at Intel stops by to talk about Intel’s IT infrastructure move to the cloud and how their focus has evolved to center around agility and self service provisioning on demand services. She discusses how enterprise IT needs more applications that are designed for cloud to take advantage of private cloud implementations and more efficiently use public cloud solutions. Cathy also highlights Intel’s engagement with OpenStack, the Open Data Center Alliance, and other organizations that are driving best practices for cloud and advancing the industry as a whole. To learn more, follow Cathy on Twitter @cw_spence.
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C., Margaret Chiosi, Distinguished Network Architect at AT&T Labs, stops by to chat about how OpenStack is influencing the telecommunications industry and AT&T’s goals for transforming to a software-centric network. She also discusses the Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) project and the work being done to create a platform that is accepted industry wide to ensure consistency, innovation, and interoperability between different open source components.
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Ken Won, Director of Cloud Software Product Marketing at HP, chats about the HP Helion strategy that is helping customers shift from traditional to on demand infrastructure environments to drive down costs and deal with common compliance issues. He also describes how HP is heavily engaged in the OpenStack community to help drive the portability and standards for all different types of cloud environments making it easy for end users to shift resources and utilize the right infrastructure based on their application needs. To learn more, visit www.hp.com/helion.
In this livecast from the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver B.C. Curt Aubley, VP and CTO of Data Center Group at Intel stops by to talk about how OpenStack provides a foundational capability for cloud computing that allows customers to tailor and share common technologies to better address their specific needs. Curt discusses Intel® Cloud Integrity Technology and emphasizes how important it is to establish a foundation of trust to allow customers to easily move their workloads into the cloud. He highlights how standard approaches to security help facilitate flexibility and interoperability which in turn lowers levels of risk for everyone in the industry.
Jim Blakley, Visual Cloud Computing General Manager at Intel stops by to chat about the large growth in the use of cloud graphics and media processing applications and the increasing demands these applications are putting on the data center. He discusses the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v4 Product Family with integrated Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics which provides up to 1.4x performance vs. the previous generation for video transcoding, as well as substantial improvement in overall media and graphics processing. These improvements not only benefit video quality and graphics rendering for end users, but also bring a better cost of ownership for data center managers by increasing density, throughput, and overall performance per rack. To learn more, visit http://www.intel.com/ and search for Iris™ Pro graphics, Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v4 Product Family, or Quick Sync Video.
Susan McNeice, Marketing Thought Leadership at Oracle Communications stops by to chat about how OpenStack* Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA), which is built on open source solutions and supported by Intel, is helping the industry re-think strategies for managing a telecommunications cloud. She also discusses how EPA is addressing the gap between orchestrating virtualized network functions (VNF) activity, services into the network, and the conversation with the processor platform that exists today. To learn more, visit http://www.oracle.com/communications .
Lynn Comp, Director of the Market Development Organization for the Network Products Group at Intel, stops by to chat about the advances that have been made in network virtualization and flexible orchestration enabling applications to be spun up within a virtual machine in minutes instead of months. She outlines how Intel is driving network transformation to a software defined infrastructure (SDI) by enabling network orchestrators to more rapidly apply security protocols to virtual applications. Lynn also highlights how enterprises are already employing virtualized routers, firewalls, and other aspects of network functions virtualization (NFV) and that NFV is already a mainstream trend with lots of reference material and applications available for enterprises to utilize. To learn more, follow Lynn on Twitter @comp_lynn or visit www.intel.com/itcenter.
In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Guy Shemesh, Senior Director of the CloudBand Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent stops by to talk about how the CloudBand™ platform enables service providers to accelerate adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Guy emphasizes how important it is to embrace the open source community in such a rapidly changing industry in order to ensure the ability to adapt to different market trends and capture additional value for customers. To learn more, visit http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/cloudband.
Lisa Spelman, General Manager of Marketing for the Datacenter Group at Intel discusses the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 family and how it is driving significant performance improvements for mission critical applications. She highlights how the incredible 12 terabyte memory capacity of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v3 is a game changer for in-memory computing that will enable enterprise to capture new business insights through real-time analytics and decision making.
In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Sandra Rivera, VP and General Manager of the Network Platforms Group at Intel® chats about new innovative service capabilities that are solving business challenges in the telecommunications industry. She outlines how Network Functions Virtualization has transformed the industry and highlights the work that Intel® is doing to help enable the telecommunications industry ecosystem through the Intel® Network Builders program that now has over 125 community members. For more information, visit https://networkbuilders.intel.com/.
In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Mark Hocking, Vice President & General Manager of Safe Identity at Intel Security, stops by to talk about the new True Key™ product by Intel Security that is providing a solution to address a universal pain point for computing users around the globe, passwords. Mark discusses how True Key is innovating the way people log in to websites and applications by using personal biometrics and password storage so that you can automatically and securely sign in to your digital life without having to struggle with numerous passwords. To learn more, visit www.truekey.com.
Ed Goldman, CTO of the Enterprise Datacenter Group at Intel discusses the SDI Maturity Model that Intel is using to help enable enterprises lay the groundwork to move their data centers to a Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). Ed explains that the SDI Enterprise Maturity Model has five stages in the progression from traditional hard-wired architecture to SDI and how Intel is providing intelligence in the hardware platforms that include security, workload acceleration, and intelligent resource orchestration that help data centers become more enabled for SDI.
Paul Messina, the Director of Science at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory stops by to talk about the leading edge scientific research taking place at the Argonne National Laboratory. He announces how the Aurora system, in partnership with Intel and Cray, will enable new waves of scientific discovery in areas like wind turbine simulation, weather prediction, and aeronautical design. Aurora will employ an integrated system design that will drive high performance computing possibilities to new heights.
In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress John Healy, Intel’s GM of the Software Defined Networking Division stops by to talk about the current state of Network Function Virtualization adoption within the telecommunications industry. He outlines how Intel is driving the momentum of NFV deployment through initiatives like Intel Network Builders and how embracing the open source community with projects such as OPNFV is accelerating the ability for vendors to now offer many solutions that are targeted towards function virtualization.
In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress Howard Wu, Head of Product Line for Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure at Ericsson chats about the newly announced partnership between Intel and Ericsson to launch a next generation data center infrastructure. He discusses how this partnership, which is in part enabled by Intel® Rack Scale Architecture, is driving the optimization and scaling of cloud resources across private, public, and enterprise cloud domains for improved operational agility and efficiency. To learn more visit: www.ericsson.com/cloud
In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Gary Davis (twitter.com/garyjdavis), Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at Intel Security stops by to talk about the current state of security within the mobile and internet of things industry. He emphasizes how vulnerable many wearable devices and smart phones can be to cyber criminal attacks and discusses easy ways to help ensure that your personal information can be protected on your devices. To learn more visit: www.intelsecurity.com or http://home.mcafee.com
Raejeanne Skillern, General Manager of the Cloud Service Provider Organization within the Data Center Group at Intel explains Intel’s involvement in the Open Compute Project and the technologies Intel will be highlighting at the 2015 Open Compute Summit in San Jose California. She discusses the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor D-1500 Product Family, as well as how Intel will be demoing Rack Scale Architecture and other solutions at the Summit that are aligned with OCP specifications.
John Nguyen, a Senior Product Manager at Supermicro discusses the Intel® Xeon® Processor D-1500 Product Family launch and how Supermicro is integrating this new solution into their products today. He illustrates how the ability to utilize the small footprint and low power capabilities of the Intel® Xeon® Processor D-1500 Product Family is facilitating the production of small department servers for enterprise, as well as enabling small businesses to take advantage of the Intel® Xeon® Processor Family performance. To learn more visit: http://www.supermicro.com/products/embedded/
Intel Senior Principal Engineer Amber Huffman stops by to talk about the incredible performance benefits enabled when NVM Express is combined with the Intel® Solid-State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe. She also describes the future of NVMe over fabrics and the coming availability of NVMe on the client side within desktops, laptops, 2-in-1s, and tablets. To learn more visit: http://www.nvmexpress.org/
Jim Blakley, General Manager of Visual Cloud Computing at Intel chats about the benefit of having integrated graphics in the data center. He highlights how online gaming, high definition video processing, and visual understanding are all applications that use graphics based technologies and are creating increasing demand for processing and acceleration within the data center. Jim discusses technologies like Intel® Quick Sync Video and Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics and how the industry is rapidly moving towards the adoption of these innovative data center graphic processing solutions.
Ziya Ma, Director of Big Data Technologies at Intel, stops by to talk about how open source solutions are enabling enterprise to take advantage of the new concepts coming out of big data. She highlights how Intel is a leading contributor within the overall open source community and is working to accelerate the delivery of different vertical analytics solutions. Ziya also illustrates how Intel® Architecture (IA) based big data solutions provide some of the most complete and easiest big data experiences available.
Jake Smith, the Director of Strategic Planning for the NSG Storage and Software Division at Intel, discusses Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) and how it is accelerating the next generation of data centers. He illustrates how performance can be greatly increased for I/O bound and read intensive applications when CAS is combined with Intel® Data Center Family SSDs. Jake explains how utilizing Intel® Cache Acceleration Software can even enable a whole new set of application environments in the data center through tiered storage, tiered memory, cold storage SSDs, and hybrid environments. To learn more, visit www.intel.com and search for Intel® Cache Acceleration Software.
In this archive of a livecast from the OpenStack Summit, David Brown, Director of Data Center Software Planning at Intel, stops by to talk about the current explosion of OpenStack adoption within telecommunication and enterprise industries, as well as the expectations for the future of OpenStack development and deployment. David also highlights the Win the Enterprise effort that Intel recently initiated which facilitates the collaboration of 75 different organizations working to drive adoption of OpenStack in the enterprise industry. For more information, visit https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/open-source-openstack.
In this archive of a livecast, Kamesh Pemmaraju (www.twitter.com/kpemmaraju), a Sr. Product Manager for OpenStack Solutions at Dell, stops by to talk about a few acute needs when deploying OpenStack for enterprises: Security, trust and SLAs and how enterprises can make sure their workloads are running in a trusted environment via the company’s work with Red Hat and Intel® Service Assurance Administrator. He also discusses the OpenStack maturity roadmap including the upgrade path, networking transitions, and ease of deployment. For more information, visit http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/solutions/openstack.
In this archive of a livecast from the OpenStack Summit, Carmine Rimi, the Director of Cloud Engineering at Workday stops by to talk about the evolution of software as a service, as well as scalability and reliability of apps in a cloud environment. Workday deploys various finance and HR apps for enterprises, government and education and is moving its infrastructure onto OpenStack to deploy software-defined compute, networking, and storage. For more information, visit www.workday.com.
In this archive of a livecast from the OpenStack Summit, Krish Raghuram, the Enterprise Marketing Manager in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel, stops by to talk about working with developers directly to get technologies quickly proven and tested, as well as Intel’s investment and work as an OpenStack Platinum member, the need for developing cloud-aware/stateless apps, and utilizing OpenStack to cut operational and capital expense costs. For more information, visit https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/open-source-openstack.
In this archive of a livecast from the OpenStack Summit, Boris Renski (https://twitter.com/zer0tweets), the co-founder and CMO of Mirantis stops by to talk about the OpenStack ecosystem and the company’s Mirantis OpenStack distribution. Enterprises are now in the adoption phase for OpenStack, with one particular use case standing out for Boris – OpenStack as a data center wide Web server. For more information, visit www.mirantis.com.
In this archive of a livecast from the OpenStack Summit, Alex Williams (http://twitter.com/alexwilliams), Lead of The New Stack, chats about hot topics at the show: The growth of the OpenStack community and project maturity, container technology, the convergence of big data and private clouds, the evolution of networking and storage for intelligent orchestration, and trust in an open source environment. For more information, visit www.thenewstack.io.
In this archive of a livecast from the OpenStack Summit, Ruchi Bhargava (@Ruchi_Bhargava), an engineering manager and hybrid cloud program owner at Intel, stops by to talk about OpenStack and Intel’s ongoing development and deployment of a hybrid cloud using the software. The company started virtualizing services in 2008 and what began as an effort in efficiency has now moved to the automation of enterprise services using cloud computing and a transformed IT work force. For more information, visit http://intel.ly/hybridcloud or http://www.openstack.org/user-stories/intel/.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Ben Kepes, a technology analyst and founder Diversity Limited, and Eric Mantion, Evangelist for Intel RealSense Technology, chat about the innovative technology. Intel RealSense Snapshot allows for photos with depth, enabling re-focusing after the shot as well as interactive measurements. Intel RealSense 3D Camera sees like humans do, so it can respond to natural movement in 3 dimensions – you can control devices with a wave or scan your environment in 3D. The use cases for the technology are immense, everything from getting the perfect wedding photo to making sure your newly-purchased sofa will fit in a room to augmented reality schematics for buildings under construction. For more information, visit www.intel.com/realsense.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Mario Paniccia, an Intel Fellow and GM of Silicon Photonics at Intel and celebrity guest Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and current Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman of Arista Networks, stop by to talk about the need for 100 Gbps for large networks with massive aggregate throughputs. The biggest challenge to mainstream deployment is the cost of optics, which has been addressed with Intel Silicon Photonics by marrying optics with the silicon manufacturing process. For more information, visit http://intel.ly/SiliconPhotonics.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Cathy Spence (@cw_spence), a Principal Engineer with Intel IT, stops by to talk about developing cloud-aware applications with specific characteristics like on demand availability and elastic growth with an overall goal of realizing cost savings. Intel IT runs programs for developers to help practice building cloud-aware apps, and also publishes app design patterns and tracks how many and what types of cloud-aware apps are available. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/ODCACloudAware and http://intel.ly/CloudAware.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Scott Lowe (@scott_lowe), an industry blogger and engineering architect at VMware, stops by to talk about recent developments in the virtualization and networking industry. He gives a great overview of software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), why the industry should care, and where we are on the adoption curve. He also discusses a few emerging/popular technologies like network hardware and OS disaggregation, containers and rackscale architecture. For more information, visit www.vmware.com or http://blog.scottlowe.org.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Jim Comfort, the GM of Cloud Services in the Global Technology Services Unit at IBM and Karna Bojjireddy, Lead Security Architect for IBM Cloud Services, stop by to talk about the emerging cloud services market with the company’s acquisition of SoftLayer in 2013. SoftLayer provides cloud IaaS from data centers around the world, offering enterprises the ability to modernize their infrastructure with cloud services. SoftLayer recently announced that it is bringing Intel® Trusted Execution Technology and Trusted Platform Modules to it service, enabling enterprises to maintain security and control over their applications. For more information, visit www.softlayer.com.
Nidhi Chappell, the Server SoC Product Marketing Manager at Intel stops by to talk system on a chip (SoC). The design philosophy is all about integration – IO, network and NIC on the same package as the microprocessor for use in markets including communications, storage and microservers where scalability and density are critical. Intel is using SoCs in Intel® AtomTM processors and recently released details on the upcoming Intel® Xeon® D processor line, the first true Xeon processor based SoC. For more information, visit http://intel.ly/Xeon-D.
Brent Gorda, the GM of the High Performance Data Division at Intel, stops by to talk about the Lustre file system, which operates at extreme scale and efficiency and is popular in the HPC industry. The Lustre team at Intel recently announced the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre version 2.2, which added some significant maintenance and management tools, support for the underlying OpenZFS file system, and enhancements to use MapReduce under Lustre (allowing data to be kept in one place). For more information, visit: www.intel.com/lustre.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Billy Cox, the GM of SDI Software Development at Intel and Jeff Autor, a Distinguished Technologist in the Servers Business Unit at HP, stop by to talk about the new Redfish specification from Intel, HP, Dell and Emerson Network Power which has recently been submitted to a new forum in the DMTF. Redfish enables devices to be scalable, discoverable, extensible and easy to manage via a simple, script-based programming method. This allows use cases from data center operators to enterprise management consoles to expand data access and analysis. For more information, visit www.refishspecification.org.
Three interviewees from EMC (Danny Cobb, Steve Sardella and Jason Davidson), stop by to chat about developments in the storage industry. Software-defined storage will allow users to create storage pools across large clusters of servers with different levels of service, while NVM Express over Fabrics will give data center operators the distance and robustness of existing standard (Ethernet, Fiber Channel) while also delivering the efficiency of the NVM Express standard. For more information, visit www.emc.com.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Paul Miller (@PaulMiller), the founder of Cloud of Data, chats about various hot topics in enterprise computing including orchestration and telemetry for on demand, cost effective workload distribution, personalized medicine and data protection/privacy, and the evolution of public and private clouds and the emergence of containers. For more information, visit www.cloudofdata.com.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, we’ve got three great interviewees discussing the intelligent data center. Das Kamhout, a Cloud Orchestration Architect and Principal Engineer at Intel; Scott Carlson, an Information Security Architect for PayPal; and John Wilkes, a Principal Software Engineer at Google are on hand to talk about building, scaling, securing, and adding an intelligent software layer to modern data centers. For PayPal, a top priority is how to protect the money flow and retain customer trust. Google focuses on building smart systems that can scale massively and offer high reliability. For more information, visit: http://intel.ly/orchestration.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Johnathan Donaldson (@jdonalds), the GM of Software Defined Infrastructure in the Cloud Platforms Group at Intel, stops by to talk about building intelligent infrastructure for enhanced platform and capabilities awareness, as well as dynamic workload placement and configuration. In a digital services economy, intelligent infrastructure is critical for development cycles and time to market. For more information, visit www.intel.com and search for software defined infrastructure.
In this archive of a livecast from IDF, Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson stops by with a special guest, Matt Trossen, the CEO of Trossen Robotics. We’re talking to them about the 21st Century Robot Project, which uses open source hardware and software and 3D printing to make customizable robots driven by apps and connected to other devices for an ecosystem of computation. Trossen Robotics makes the Intel® Edison powered Humanoid Exoskeleton and a 3D printer makes the robot skin, giving makers a platform to start from when innovating with robotics. You can order a robot development kit (and check out the book) at http://www.21stcenturyrobot.com/ and learn more at www.trossenrobotics.com.
Mike Bernhardt, the Community Evangelist for HPC and Technical Computing at Intel, stops by to talk about the importance of code modernization as we move into multi- and many-core systems in the HPC field. Markets as diverse as oil and gas, financial services, and health and life sciences can see a dramatic performance improvement in their code through parallelization. Mike also discusses last year’s Parallel Universe Computing Challenge and its return at SC14 in November – $26,000 towards a charitable organization is on the line for the winning team. For more information about the PUCC, visit intel.ly/SC14 and for more on Intel and HPC, visit www.intel.com/hpc.
In this archive of a livecast from the Intel Developer Forum, Yoram Novick (Founder and CEO) and Carolyn Crandell (VP of Marketing) from Maxta discuss hyper-convergence and enabling SDI via the company’s software defined storage solutions. The recently announced MaxDeploy reference architecture, built on Intel® Server Boards, provides customers the ability to purchase a whole box (hardware and software) for a more simple and cost-effective solution than legacy infrastructure. For more information, visit www.maxta.com.
Vin Sharma (@ciphr), the Director of Planning and Marketing for Hadoop at Intel chats about collecting and extracting value from data. The Intel® Galileo Development Kit’s hardware and software components allow users to build an end-to-end solution while the Intel® Internet of Things Analytics Kit provides a cloud-based data processing platform. For more information, visit www.intel.com/galileo.
Iddo Kadim, a marketing director in the Data Center Group at Intel, stops by to talk about data center telemetry – information you can read from the infrastructure (like thermal data and security states) to help manage workloads more efficiently. In the future, the orchestration layer will work with telemetry data to manage workloads automatically for a more flexible and efficient data center. For more information, visit www.intel.com/txt and www.intel.com/inteldcm.
Richard Seroter, the Director of Product Management at CenturyLink Cloud, stops by to talk about building a global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform to deliver both public and private clouds, and also discusses the recent launch of CenturyLink’s hyperscale high-performance cloud platform, designed for web-scale workloads, big data and cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.centurylinkcloud.com.
Bikram Gupta, a Senior Product Manager at Intel, stops by to talk about the Intel® Security suite of solutions including PC/mobile phone, security management, firewall and network security. With the move of many network appliances to software defined, security also migrating to new software defined security solutions. Bikram also discusses the rise of intelligent applications that leverage SDN and how those will be secured in the future. For more information, visit: http://networkbuilders.intel.com/.
Victor Krutul (the Director of Silicon Photonics at Intel) and Stan Swirhun (the Director of Module Engineering for Silicon Photonics at Intel), chat about bringing Intel manufacturing to the process of making optical devices: The first silicon photonics products will hit the market in late 2014. They also discuss the formation and need for the CLR4 Alliance, a specification for defining SiPh link speed and distance in the data center. For more information, visit www.clr4-alliance.org.
Frequent Chip Chat guest Raejeanne Skillern, the GM of cloud service providers at Intel, stops by to talk about making the data center more flexible and agile for delivery of services. While general purpose processors are good for a majority of applications, Intel recently announced a customizable Intel® Xeon® processor to optimize specific workloads. The new Xeon integrates an FPGA with a coherent link, leading to better performance and lower latency. To learn more, visit http://intel.ly/1sC96k9.
Emre Eraltan, a Principal Field Application Engineer with 6WIND, stops by to talk about solving performance challenges for network vendors in telecommunications, enterprise and the cloud infrastructure market. 6WINDGate is an all-in-one packet processing software providing a high performance networking stack on top of different type of processors. He also discusses using the Intel® Data Plane Development kit for faster packet processing on x86 architectures. For more information, visit www.6WIND.com and www.dpdk.org.
Robert McBride, the Senior Product Manager of Emerging Technologies Software Networking at Brocade, chats about the Vyatta 5600 vRouter and using software to deliver automation and control of network services resulting in lower costs and an improved end-user experience. He also discusses the Intel® Network Builders program and working with the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit. For more information, visit www.brocade.com.
Jim Greene, a product marketing engineer focused on server security technologies at Intel, stops by to talk about his book: Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms: A Guide to More Secure Datacenters. Jim has agreed to give away autographed copies of the book to the first 5 people that follow @techallyson on Twitter and tweet her for a copy. Jim also discusses how to stay ahead of emerging threats: 1. Increase your ability to detect attacks (be it on the networks or malware) via sensors and analytics? 2. Increase your protections to protect data and harden the platform. 3. Innovate for recovery – how do we manage the mayhem? For more information, visit www.intel.com/txt.
Michael Kearns, the founder and CEO of Amartus, stops by to talk about automating the delivery of services on provider networks and building capabilities around SDN (software defined networking) and NFV (network function virtualization) for a truly elastic/on-demand model, not only for current cloud workloads but also network functions and services. For more information, visit www.amartus.com.
In this archive of a livecast from Mobile World Congress, Nicole Scott (editor, MobileGeeks.com) and Chippy AKA Steve Paine (editor, UltraBookNews.com), stop by to talk about trends in the mobile/tablet space. They talk about the evolution of the mobile OS into the productivity space, the emergence of various security solutions for the mobile and tablet devices, what’s coming up in the wearables market, and as well as touching on the maker movement and where the Intel® Galileo board might take us.
Greg Matson, the director of SSD Strategic Planning and Product Marketing at Intel, discusses the launch of the Intel® Solid-State Drive Data Center P3700 series, which offer extremely high performance (6 traditional hard drives = 1 SSD) for apps like big data workloads. It’s also the first set of PCI Express based SSDs with NVM Express technology, an interface for IO that’s been designed specifically for Non-Volatile Memory rather than spinning discs. Learn more at www.intel.com/ssd.
Dr. Alexander Heinecke from the Parallel Computing Lab at Intel chats about his PRACE ISC award-winning research into earthquake simulations. The team of computer scientists, mathematicians, and geophysicists simulated vibrations comparable to an earthquake inside the Merapi volcano on the island of Java. They ran the SeiSol simulation software on the SuperMUC high performance computer, which executed 1.09 quadrillion floating point operations per second and used all of the 147,456 processor cores. Research like this, using even more powerful supercomputers, will enable further detailed simulations in a faster time, leading to deeper insights and scientific breakthroughs. For more information, visit http://www.isc-events.com/isc14/ and www.intel.com/hpc.
Raejeanne Skillern (@RaejeanneS), frequent Chip Chat guest and General Manager of Cloud Service Providers for Intel, stops by to talk about the digital services economy and to lay out Intel’s vision for disrupting the datacenter. The four pillars of the newly architected data center are silicon innovation (think customized silicon), moving away from the box model (pools of compute/storage/network resources with an orchestration layer), expedited service delivery, and monetizing data (realizing insight and value). For more information, visit www.intel.com/itcenter.
Lynn Comp (@comp_lynn), the Director of Datacenter Solutions and Technologies Initiatives at Intel, is back on Chip Chat to give a software defined infrastructure recap and then talk about datacenter storage and balancing the placement of data with how often it needs to be accessed. Intel® Solid State Drives offer better performance than traditional hard drives, and when coupled with NVM Express can dramatically reduce latency for certain workloads. For more information, visit www.intel.com/itcenter.
In this archive of a livecast, Art King, the Director of Enterprise Services & Technologies at SpiderCloud Wireless, stops by to talk about providing a Small Cell managed services platform to medium to large enterprises. This allows mobile operators to deliver scalable cellular and Wi-Fi coverage, capacity and cloud services wherever there's a LAN, bringing intelligence to the edge of the network. For more information, visit www.spidercloud.com.
In this archive of a livecast, Franklin Flint (@franklinatdell), the Global Telecommunications Strategist & Marketing Director for Dell OEM Solutions, stops by to talk about Dell and Red Hat working together to develop a version of OpenStack that is highly optimized for carrier networks. It is a truly open source version, addressing the network function layer and lowering the barrier to entry to ensure that customers end up with the most choice. For more information, visit www.dell.com/telecommunications and http://blog.delloem.com.
Billy Cox, the GM of Service Assurance Management at Intel, stops by to talk about the launch of a product, the Intel® Datacenter Manager: Service Assurance Administrator. SAA enables IT managers and service providers to create multitenant environments and implement SLAs. SAA monitoring, remediation, reporting, and management capabilities bring the trust attestation, performance, availability, and portability enterprises require. For more info, visit www.intel.com/saa.
In this archive of a livecast, Jim St Leger (@intel_jim), a Technology Marketing Manager at Intel, stops by to talk about the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit. Intel® DPDK is a set of plane libraries and network interface controller drivers for fast packet processing on Intel® architecture platforms, allowing an increased throughput of packet workloads of up to 10 – 25x. This solution is ideal for telecom wireless infrastructure evolved packet core (EPC) applications and other network elements. For more information, visit http://intel.com/go/dpdk .
In this archive of a livecast, Kelly Herrell, the VP & GM of the Software Networking Business Unit at Brocade, stops by to talk about the company’s Vyatta virtual routers and how they fit an overall NFV strategy. Vyatta routers offer dynamic routing, Policy-Based Routing (PBR), stateful firewall, VPN support, and traffic management in a platform that is optimized for virtualized environments. Cloud service providers have been the first adopters of networking as a service, but the real proof points will come from telco operators looking to alleviate choked pipes from the explosion of mobile traffic on their networks. For more information, visit www.brocade.com.
John Healy, the General Manager of the SDN Division at Intel, stops by to talk about the company’s vision for a software defined infrastructure. In a software defined infrastructure datacenter, the compute, network, and storage become pools of assets that can be combined on a per service basis. To fully realize this vision, three things need to happen: 1. Abstract functionality from underlying hardware, 2. Develop the ability for centralized control of all resources, and 3. Orchestration of all resources so they can be programmed on an on-demand basis. For more information, visit http://networkbuilders.intel.com.
In this archive of a livecast, Recep Ozdag, the Director of Solutions Marketing for Cyan Inc., stops by to talk about working with Intel, Dell, Red Hat and Connectem on an end-to-end NFV orchestration proof of concept demo. The PoC was sponsored by Sprint and Telefonica and demonstrates the technical and business viability of carrier-grade NFV deployment and service orchestration using cloud computing technologies. To learn more about Cyan’s broader network optimization story, visit www.cyaninc.com or http://networkbuilders.intel.com/.
In this archive of a livecast, Glenn Seiler, the Vice President for Cloud and SDN Strategy at Wind River Systems, chats about the company’s recent announcement of the Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server that brings the NFV value prop to telecommunications providers. It features a complete software stack (Linux, hypervisor, Openstack*) and has been designed specifically for the performance, reliability, and management requirements of the telecommunications industry. For more information, visit www.windriver.com.
Ketan Paranjape, the Director of Personalized Medicine in the Datacenter Group at Intel, stops by to talk about deploying Intel solutions in healthcare and how big data applies to the healthcare industry. Each human genome is around 3-4 terabytes of raw data. And ideally, patients should be sequenced and re-sequenced multiple times to see if treatments are working. Intel is working with a number of research institutions and partners on how we store and analyze that data rapidly, allowing the industry to start moving to truly personalized medicine. For more information, visit www.intel.com/healthcare/bigdata.
In this archive of a livecast, Richard Curran, the Director of Enterprise for EMEA at Intel, stops by to talk about IT’s changing role in business and how CIOs can maximize their infrastructure to help the business. Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the business model, It is now being offered to individual business units on a service-based model.
In this archive of a livecast from HP Discover, Pat Buddenbaum, the Director of the Enterprise Segment at Intel, stops by to talk about the two paradigm shifts in enterprise IT – cloud computing and business analytics (also introducing visual analytics to our listeners) and how enterprises like BMW deal with not only offering traditional IT to employees, but also supporting a million connected cars on the road in a cloud environment. For more information, visit www.intel.com.
Lisa Onstot, a Server Platform Marketing Director at Dell, stops by to talk about the Dell PowerEdge R920 server featuring the recently-launched Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2. The R920 server has been built specifically for enterprises to facilitate quick data access – architected with the massive memory capacity needed to accelerate large, mission-critical applications, as well as high-performance databases. For more information, visit www.dell.com/poweredge.
In this archive of a livecast, Fabienne Chevalier, the manager of the EMEA Industry Solution Center at HP, stops by to talk about the joint solutions center from HP and Intel. They hold over 100 workshops a year to facilitate the adoption of innovative solutions based on Intel and HP technologies. Customers can bring in their needs and get a deep dive into solutions and features during the small-group format training. This year’s workshops will highlight big data analytics and NFV. For more information, visit www.hpintelco.com.
Alberto Farronato, the Director of Product Marketing for Cloud Infrastructure Storage and Availability at VMware, stops by to chat about the recent launch of the VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN), which provides a software-defined storage tier that pools compute and DAS resources through the server hypervisor. By clustering server direct-attached HDDs and SSDs, VSAN creates a distributed, shared data store at the hypervisor layer that is designed and optimized for virtual machines. For more information, visit www.vmware.com/now.