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Communication-Assisted Platform Power Management
Intel’s energy efficiency research is showing how we’re reducing overall platform power demands while maintaining high performance. Intel research is taking a holistic approach to power management from the network to the platform for extended battery life. This communications-based technology creates idle durations by aligning Tx, Rx and I/O break events allowing the CPU and platform to get into a low power state faster and stay there longer. This synergistic approach to power management is resulting in up to 30% CPU power savings for various workloads. See video for more.
Intel, Micron Introduce 25-Nanometer NAND – The Smallest, Most Advanced Process Technology in the Semiconductor Industry
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 1, 2010 – Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. today announced the world’s first 25-nanometer (nm) NAND technology, which provides a more cost-effective path for increasing storage capacity in such popular consumer gadgets as smartphones, personal music and media players (PMPs), as well as the new high-performance class of solid-state drives (SSDs).
Rule the Business World with the Fujitsu LifeBook E780
Fujitsu announces the release of the LifeBook E780, a top-of-the-line, full-featured notebook that comes equipped with a suite of functions that will aid any user in commanding their digital kingdom. The high-performance LifeBook E780 features a 500GB 5400rpm SATA Drive, and is also equipped with the latest security features to protect your notebook from compromise and the hassle of theft.
Intel Shatters Internet Protocol “iSCSI” Storage Records
Intel has announced remarkable iSCSI performance results that were achieved using Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller-based server adapters, Intel Xeon processor 5500-series based servers, and the native iSCSI support in Windows Server 2008 R2. The 1,030,000 IOPS test result is more than double any previously announced iSCSI performance, showing that high performance networking is possible using iSCSI on 10GbE. Could iSCSI be the future of Enterprise storage networking? Learn more about these iSCSI results on the Intel server blog and view the Intel-Microsoft webcast.
New ATI Stream Development Platforms Now Available from Colfax and Exxact
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced developers can now acquire fully configured ATI Stream technology-enabled development platforms from Colfax and Exxact. These new systems provide developers and researchers with complete development platforms, leveraging the latest high-performance AMD GPU architecture along with AMD’s OpenCL™ 1.0-compliant ATI Stream SDK 2.0 to deliver up to 2.72 TFLOPS of compute performance.
New HPC Optimized Intel Processor Planned
At Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Ore., Intel unveiled a future High Performance Computing (HPC) optimized version of its forthcoming processor codenamed “Nehalem-EX.” The six-core chip will run at higher frequencies than eight-core versions of the Nehalem-EX processors and will offer advantages on some HPC workloads. Customers will benefit from greater memory bandwidth and capacity and will be able to build single computers or “nodes” with up to 256 such chips. More details can be found at Intel’s online Press Room.
New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10
PORTLAND, Ore.— SC09—Nov. 16, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA™ processor architecture, codenamed “Fermi”.