August 20, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—P.K. Gupta from the Intel Cloud Platform Technology Group advocates using FPGAs for some acceleration tasks. The growing needs for compute and the associated stress on systems requires alternatives to adding more servers, especially in cloud platforms. The cloud computing services are growing at a CAGR over 15…
August 18, 2015 at the Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—The Pericom Semiconductor Corporation announced new families of high-speed support products for use in diverse applications including notebook, smart phone, tablet and servers. The new products address the needs for switching, connectivity, signal-integrity and timing functions for the highly complex multi-protocol interfaces. The signal integrity solutions…
August 20, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Rik Dunphy from Intel presented some tips for optimizing video processing and delivery on Xeon processors. The latest E3 processor family has added new processing capabilities which will require different approaches to server-class video processing. The nature of video workloads is changing with more offline file-based transcoding, and…
August 18. 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Dan Froelich from Intel described the storage transition to PCI-e interfaces. The change is facilitated by new form factors and products. The availability of storage in SSD and PCI-e configurations is approaching 10 percent of the total storage market and growing faster than rotating disks. Forecasts indicate a…
August 18, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Fred Magnotta from Intel described the ongoing refinements in the tools and libraries for machine learning. The advent of big data and availability of large compute clusters has changed expectations for many data users. The combination of updated hardware platforms like the latest Xeon families, math kernel libraries…
August 20, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel, security architect at Intel presented concepts on identity protection technologies. The basis for many data breaches is compromised identity. One of the primary problems for users and IT is passwords. Most passwords are easily cracked, key-logged, phished, and intercepted, making them a high security risk. Password…
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Jason Ross described the design, architecture, and processing changes that enabled improved performance at lower power for the graphics engines in the latest Intel core processors. The changes reflect the changing environments for the commercial-grade parts. In the past, PCs and their graphics engines had the luxury of…
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—A panel discussed the issues and implications of diversity in the workplace. Roz Hudnell from Intel acted as moderator with panelists Tim Bajarin from Creative Strategies,Caryl Shaw from TellTale Games, and Lisa Lambert, Howard Wright, and Sandra Lopez from Intel. The main issue is a need for greater…
August 20, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Nitin Saragdhar from the Intel security group talked about biometric authentication in a trusted execution environment. The growing number of damaging exploits and data breaches is raising concerns, but users don’t want to have more and higher complexity passwords. Users need to be authenticated t ensure that all…
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Hong Jiang from Intel talked about the improvements in the GPU functions that will enable a better user experience for 4k TV. The changes to the graphics engines and functionality are also important for the newest graphics APIs that have fine-grained and direct GPU access and control. The…