2015年1月29日 星期四

What is IBM Watson and Bluemix?

What is IBM Watson and Bluemix?

Do you want to put the power of Watson in your applications? Do you want to radically change the way you interface with your users? In the first of three Techbyte videos, Nathan Vega and Swami Chandrasekaran will introduce the listeners to the concepts of cognitive computing, IBM Watson, and IBM's Platform-as-a-Service, Bluemix. This is no longer just a machine that won on Jeopardy, but a powerful cognitive cloud platform. This session will orient the listener to what's different about this technology and just how powerful it is. Join us for the series to learn about how you can power your own application with Watson. Join us to find out more on Watson services and check them 

2015年1月27日 星期二

The record revenue Intel reported for 2014 was driven largely by its emphasis on high-powered datacenter products and there is such growth in demand for custom processors that, by the end of 2015, half the Xeon chips Intel sells to Cloud providers could be custom designs.

The record revenue Intel reported for 2014 was driven largely by its emphasis on high-powered datacenter products and there is such growth in demand for custom processors that, by the end of 2015, half the Xeon chips Intel sells to Cloud providers could be custom designs.
Intel has always been willing to modify its high-end server chips for big datacenter customers, adding memory, cutting power requirements or making other modifications to fit the specifications of just a few customers with specialized requirements.
Cloud computing has now created a larger market driven by the requirements of Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others that even a tiny change to optimize one feature of a chip like the high-end Xeon E7-2600 can make a huge difference, when multiplied by millions of high-density servers that are also custom-designed to run the specific workloads most common in that datacenter as efficiently as possible.
Companies like AWS “are running a million servers, so floor space, power, cooling, people – you want to optimize everything,” according to Diane Bryant, head of Intel’s Data Center Group, in a Dec. 19 story in the New York Times. “The name of the game is customization.”

2015年1月23日 星期五

Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)

Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) creates rich visually based reports that you can embed into Web applications. BIRT is a top-level designer tool within the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit open source community and consortium of software vendors. BIRT leverages technology previously reserved for commercial applications with BIRT iHub F-Type, a free enterprise-grade server for managing and delivering BIRT content to any number of users, while instantly enhancing Open Source reporting functionality and reducing deployment time down within minutes. With its out-of-the-box data support, BIRT iHub F-Type connects to all relational databases for unlimited big data reporting. Download BIRT iHub F-Type now.

2015年1月20日 星期二

3 Easy Ways to Target Vectorization Tech with C++ Compiler

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The Intel C++ compiler can easily target different processors. To really know what’s happening, you need to look at the assembly code. But before you can do that, you have to make sure you configure the compiler correctly. In this blog, Jeff Cogswell talks about the three ways you can target vectorization capabilities all with the flick of a switch.

When trying to get the best vectorization possible, the first thing we need to do is get the settings right in compiling our programs. The Intel C++ compiler can target many different versions of Intel processors, and you don’t need to actually be running on those processors when you compile your code. For example, even though you might not have a processor that supports AVX-512, you can still compile an application that will only run on an AVX-512. Or you can compile an application that provides more than one set of code packed into the individual executable file, including code that targets AVX-512 and code the targets other modern processors.

2015年1月15日 星期四

The Value of Analytics

The Value of Analytics

Is your application performance data growing out of control?

With the increasingly complex, dynamic, and interconnected applications, analysts and administrators need application performance management (APM) tools with advanced analytics capabilities.

Principled Technologies, a technology assessment firm, reports in this white paper commissioned by CA Technologies, that advanced analytics is a key functionality in the modern APM tool to better support IT in delivering the quality of service that mission-critical applications demand.

2015年1月13日 星期二

Software Modernization with Vectorization

Software Modernization with Vectorization
Intel is working with high-performance computing facilities across the planet to help them modernize their code. Jeff Cogswell looks at what that means in terms of vectorization and multicore development, and considers how we can learn from the work of these centers. Find out more and let us know what you think in the comments section on our story page.