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whitepaper Take business PCs to the next leve: Improve security and remote manageability with Intel? vPro? technology-based notebook and desktop PCs2008-10-22 Intel
  Intel? Centrino? 2 with vPro? technology for notebook PCs and Intel? Core?2 processor with vPro? technology for desktop PCs will change your IT reality. Our latest technology is optimized for business computers, taking you to the next level with leading-edge security and manageability built right into the chip. Building on a common technology foundation, notebook and desktop computers with Intel? vPro? technology bring even more security and management features to IT. Intel vPro technology offers a unified, proven approach to maintaining, managing, and protecting computers throughout your organization ? even if the OS is unresponsive or the PC is powered off ? using the same IT management console.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Business Management, Best Practices, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Nottingham NHS Trust - Intel? vPro? technology Looks To The Future of IT Support2008-10-22 Intel
  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest in the UK with an annual budget of more than ?500 million (US $994 million). It's also one of the busiest with 2,000 beds divided between two campuses, Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital. And as a major teaching trust it also has an industry leading IT infrastructure widely considered within the NHS to be a centre of excellence. This includes about 6,000 desktop PCs split between the two sites. However, administering this PC fleet across a huge campus is challenging. With a view to simplifying this management process the Trust carried out an extensive evaluation of Intel? vPro? processor technology.

Tags: Data Recovery - Security, IT Manufacturing, Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization2008-10-22 Intel
  Currently, virtualization is one of the most talked about new technologies in IT infrastructure. The ability to virtualize servers and reclaim, up until now, excess capacity has caught the interest of datacenter managers who are facing difficult power and cooling problems, the need to add more IT capacity to react to market changes, or a lack of significant capital resources. The server virtualization marketplace has been evolving rapidly over the past few years, and IDC has seen customer attitudes and stances toward virtualization mature rapidly as well. Virtualization is changing the landscape of the x86 IT world as we know it. Virtualization has made every vendor up and down the software and hardware stacks consider the impact on the architectural design of its product and the go-to-market model it uses. This changing marketplace has manifested itself with new requirements for virtualization products.

Tags: Business Strategies, Blades, Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Intel? Centrino? 2 with vPro? Technology and Intel? Core?2 Processor with vPro? Technology2008-10-22 Intel
  Best for Business: Security and Manageability on the Chip. The latest notebook and desktop PCs with Intel? vPro? technology build on proven capabilities to enable greater proactive security, enhanced maintenance, and improved remote management both inside and outside the corporate firewall. These notebook and desktop PCs deliver down-the-wire security and manageability capabilities - even if the PC's power is off, the operating system (OS) is unresponsive, software agents are disabled, or hardware (such as a hard drive) has failed. With a secure tunnel for communications both inside and outside the corporate firewall, information technology (IT) managers can securely maintain, update, and repair PCs even on an open wired LAN outside the corporate firewall. Remote configuration helps information technology (IT) managers deploy thousands of notebook and desktop PCs without making a deskside visit.

Tags: Firewalls, Security Management, Data Center, Virtualization		   
whitepaper The Benefits of Intel? Centrino? with vPro? Technology in the Enterprise2008-10-22 Intel
  PCs are essential in today's enterprises, yet managing a PC fleet can consume a significant portion of IT's time and budget. Finding ways to keep employees productive with powerful notebook PCs while keeping IT management costs low requires a combination of sound IT management practices and technology that maximizes benefits to users and minimizes effort for IT. Intel? Centrino? with vPro? technology is the culmination of a large-scale initiative to support efforts to keep business users as productive as possible on notebooks and help IT keep cost and efforts low to manage the entire PC fleet. This paper presents the results of research sponsored by Intel and conducted by Wipro Product Strategy & Architecture (PSA) practice, designed to examine the potential impact of Intel Centrino Pro processor technology on the total cost of ownership (TCO) for business notebook PCs. This analysis examines how Intel Centrino Pro processor technology can help reduce infrastructure complexity, and how the technology affects manageability and IT costs. This research extends concepts originally described in Wipro's New Insights on PC Management study, which detailed the relationship between infrastructure complexity and overall notebook support costs.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Business Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Intel XML Software Suite 1.1 Performance Brief: Accelerating the Critical Functions in XML Processing2008-09-10 Intel
  Today's applications rely on data feeds from many sources, using SOAP, REST, RSS and others which all are based on the use of XML. Efficient XML processing is the cornerstone of almost every Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment, regardless of the programming language or data center environment. This paper provides comparisons to other popular XML processors, using the following common XML functions: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transform (XSLT) processing, XML Path language processing, DOM/SAX parsing and XML schema validation processing.

Tags: XML, Web Services		   
whitepaper SPRAT: Runtime Processor Selection for Energy-Aware Computing2008-07-28 Tohoku University
  A commodity Personal Computer (PC) can be seen as a hybrid computing system equipped with two different kinds of processors, i.e. CPU and a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Since the superiorities of GPUs in the performance and the power efficiency strongly depend on the system configuration and the data size determined at the runtime, a programmer cannot always know which processor should be used to execute a certain kernel. Therefore, this paper presents a runtime environment that dynamically selects an appropriate processor so as to improve the energy efficiency. The evaluation results clearly indicate that the runtime processor selection at executing each kernel with given data streams is promising for energy-aware computing on a hybrid computing system.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs		   
whitepaper PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition2008-07-21 Vrije Universiteit
  This paper presents PipesFS, an I/O architecture for Linux 2.6 that increases I/O throughput and adds support for heterogeneous parallel processors by collapsing many I/O interfaces onto one: the Unix pipeline, increasing pipe efficiency and exploiting pipeline modularity to spread computation across all available processors. PipesFS extends the pipeline model to kernel I/O and communicates with applications through a Linux Virtual FileSystem (VFS), where directory nodes represent operations and pipe nodes export live kernel data. Users can thus interact with kernel I/O through existing calls like mkdir, tools like grep, most languages and even shell scripts. To support performance critical tasks, PipesFS improves pipe throughput through copy, context switch and cache miss avoidance.

Tags: UNIX, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Using Intel Thread Profiler for Win32 Threads: Philosophy and Theory2008-05-02 Intel
  In the past, software profiling tools have concentrated on measuring the execution time of functions and procedures within applications. For serial applications this was useful information that guided the programmer to those parts of the code that could most benefit from optimization or threading. For applications that have already been threaded, this type of information often has little value. Information that relates directly to performance issues from threaded and parallel execution is of much more use. This is the first paper in a two-part series that explains what Intel Thread Profiler for Win32 Threads does and how to use it effectively on one's own explicitly threaded applications.

Tags: High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Black Belt Itanium Processor Performance: The Foundation (Part 1 of 5)2008-04-30 Intel
  Many optimizations will automatically be enabled with aggressive compiler flags. However, with a small amount of performance analysis, architectural insight and targeted code modification, the software developer can greatly improve the resulting application performance. Understanding and resolving pointer ambiguation is important on all architectures and will always improve performance, but on Itanium architecture-based processors the payoff can be enormous, and help release the full power of this new architecture.

Tags: Programming Languages, Application Development