• ACM Symposium "Best Paper" Award
  November 23, 2009
   
  At the recent ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Intel Labs researchers were awarded a "Best Paper" award for their report on "FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (PDF)." The team of researchers, from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh, combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more energy efficient for data-intensive applications than systems now used by major Internet services. A next-generation FAWN cluster is being built with nodes that include the Intel® Atom™ processor. For more information, see article in ScienceDaily.
  
  
• Safer & Smarter Roads
  November 16, 2009
   
  A number of traffic accidents are caused by worn down car tires. Intel along with industry players, Kontron and ProContour have developed tire-tread monitoring embedded technology that is making roads smarter. Kontron, a member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance has developed a camera with an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor that captures tire tread depth as a tire passes over a specialized grate. This technology can alert drivers when their tires need replacement to avoid potentially dangerous driving situations. Learn more about embedded solutions for safer roads.
  
• Delivering 1 Million IOPs Using Seven PCI Express Prototype SSDs!
  
  November 9, 2009
   
  Recently Intel showcased more than 1 million IOPs (input/output operations per second) supported by a single mainstream server using 7 PCIe solid state drive (SSD) prototypes. With this proof of concept, Intel is identifying platform bottlenecks and working on engineering improvements for future storage products. To get this kind of performance from conventional hard drives, you would need many storage racks, filled with ~4,000 hard drives - an expensive, space-consuming and power-hungry proposition. Intel used one dual socket server with an expansion box and consumed only ~400 watts (more than 100x lower power than a hard drive configuration would have). We used a challenging workload for a single 1U server: 4Kbyte transfers with a 2:1 read/write ratio. Meanwhile, the CPUs were only about 50% utilized, leaving plenty of power left for applications. This could enable an online retailer to host an unprecedented number of website transactions while containing costs or a game developer could bring products to market faster. For more info, see Senior VP & GM, Bob Baker's Intel Developer Forum Keynote "Silicon Leadership - Delivering Innovation" and recent press.
  

  Amazing performance from this small setup

  1 million 4K two-to-one read/write IOPs as measured by the IOMeter tool
• On-chip Highways: 2D Interconnect for Tera-scale Processors
  October 28, 2009
   
  The ability to integrate hundreds of Intel Architecture cores into future microprocessors will help deliver the power of Moore's Law to new user interfaces and visually compelling experiences. A high performance, resilient, core-to-core interconnect will be as important for these tera-scale microprocessors as a well-designed highway grid is to moving goods and services across a country. Recently Intel demonstrated a next generation 2D interconnect prototype that provides high data bandwidth and low latencies between cores, memory and I/O. The demo also featured our -MCEMU FPGA-based many-core emulation platform developed at Intel Labs, in Braunschweig, Germany, and a 3D visual interface developed with UC Irvine. For more information see a webcast of the demo from the recent Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
  
  
• Medical Imaging with Many-Core
  October 16, 2009
   
  Physicians today are collecting more complex imagery on their patients than ever before. Combined with the need to accurately diagnose disease and develop treatment strategies in a minimally-invasive manner, new imaging modes, methods, and hardware are needed. In collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, Intel is presenting a paper at the IEEE VisWeek09 Conference today titled "Mapping High-Fidelity Volume Rendering for Medical Imaging to CPU, GPU and Many-Core Architectures," outlining how medical imaging benefits from the parallel processing architecture in the Intel microarchitecture, code-named Nehalem. Medical volumetric imaging requires high fidelity, high performance rendering algorithms. We've now achieved more than an order of magnitude performance improvement on a number of large 3D medical datasets.
  
  
• Fast Food Made Faster, Smarter
  October 12, 2009
   
  Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), known for making a science of fast food preparation and customer service, are getting a boost with embedded technology. WAND Corporation's Digital Restaurant, powered by Intel processing technology, gives QSRs the ability to immediately alter images, prices and display configurations on digital menu boards and point-of-sale terminals, as well as track the success of marketing programs through sales transactions. The remote management capabilities available through Intel® Active Management Technology gives QSRs the flexibility to respond quickly to customer trends, inventory outages and competitor price drops. Learn more about Intel solutions for digital signage and retail.
  
  
• Robots Among Us
  October 5, 2009
   
  Take a closer look the next time you visit a hospital, factory or store - there may be a robot that is monitoring radiation levels, carrying heavy loads or promoting new products. Robots powered by Intel processors and based on MobileRobots' Motivity can accommodate environments and alter behavior to suit current conditions, including navigating around people and objects, and "learning" the surrounding layout. This is one example of the 15 billion devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2015. Learn more about Intel's work with intelligent robots.
  
  
• Shaping the Mobile PC's Future
  September 23, 2009
   
  Intel Rock Star Ajay Bhatt today at the Intel Developer Forum presented how mobile processor power/performance continues to improve with every generation of process technology and how the revolution in the mobile platform enables thinner, lighter notebook PCs with longer battery life that are indispensible in our day-to-day lives. Download session materials to learn more about enhancements to come to Intel® Architecture mobile platforms. (Locate course number: MPTS001 in the content catalog).
  
  
• Intel Supply Chain Improvements Lead to Satisfied Customers
  September 23, 2009
   
  Intel has made significant improvements in its supply chain, as Intel Senior Vice President Bob Baker outlined in his keynote this week at the Intel Developer Forum. Intel's 'Just Say Yes' initiative has led to significant improvements in customer fulfillment. Manufacturing cycle times have been reduced by 62 percent. Our ability to respond to customer change orders - both positively and quickly - has improved 300 percent. Our turnaround time from customer order placement to delivery has improved 25 percent just in the past 12 months. Our delivery performance to committed dock date has improved significantly. Each of these supply chain improvements has led to more satisfied customers. See Bob Baker's keynote materials for more info on how Intel is improving its supply chain.
• Ultimate Multi-Tasking Concept PC
  September 23, 2009
   
  Today at IDF, Intel showcased the world's first multi-screen, multi-touch concept mobile PC made possible using Intel's standard voltage CPU and Intel Graphics. This concept was developed as an inspiration for next generation notebooks. Without compromising on the activity on your main screen, it allows you to organize and enjoy information your way, in snack-able bits, using the multiple auxiliary screens strategically located just above the keyboard.
• Composition and the Collaborative Office
  September 15, 2009
   
  Today's conference room equipment is often inefficient and cumbersome, between initiating conference calls and passing projector cables from one presenter to the next. Using wireless display and mobile device-to-speakerphone dialing demonstrated recently at Research@Intel Day, users can have more effective meetings by seamlessly switching between presenters and more easily establishing conference calls. For more information, see the "Carry Small, Live Large" Research Program.
• New Entertainment Experiences in the WiMAX Connected Vehicle
  September 9, 2009
   
  Today's personal and in-vehicle entertainment devices are highly incompatible with each other outside of a simple wired connection that enables only rudimentary interactions. In the new mobile world, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) used with Intel® Atom™-powered, WiMAX-enabled automobiles, can deliver a personalized, enhanced in-vehicle entertainment experience, as demonstrated recently at Research@Intel Day. Personal preferences contained in MIDs can customize the in-car entertainment experience while WiMAX-based wireless Internet services link drivers with the world around them to enable exciting new safety, entertainment and communication experiences for tomorrow's automobiles.

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