Intel’s Wind River and its cross-architecture hypervisor

The whole point of the Workbench suite is to insulate application developers from the underlying differences in the embedded chips they pick for whatever gadget they are coming up with while at the same time taking advantage of whatever unique hardware is available for those architectures.
That basically left Wind River with one choice when it [...]

Schooner launches with Memcached and speedy MySQL appliances in the Cloud!

Not such a brilliant idea, they have just packed the SSD and Nehalem, which apparently is a bit faster than the rst of the “legacy” chips. There will be more of such start-ups with packed substrate ready gear. I’ll pass, you want to read their papers? Then go here.

Today’s highly demanding Web 2.0 and cloud [...]

Nehalem: Should we wait for VMware ESX 4.0?

To keep this in perspective, it’s not likely that IT managers will even begin to buy Xeon 5500-based systems in bulk until well after the general release of ESX 4.0. However, as I pointed out in my technical analysis of server virtualization on Xeon 5500 series CPUs, VMware will present the lowest-common-dominator processor in a [...]

Performance Evaluation of Intel EPT Hardware Assist (Xeon 5500 series processors)

We recently released a whitepaper that demonstrates huge performance gains provided by VMware ESX on the latest Intel Xeon™ 5500-series processors. These processors introduce Intel’s second-generation hardware support for virtualization that incorporates memory management unit (MMU) virtualization called Extended Page Tables™ (EPT). ESX has been adopting these technologies as they are introduced, and many workloads [...]

Intel’s Cloud nightmare: ARM CPUs to power most netbooks by 2012

ARM-based processors will take market share from Intel Corp.’s Atom in the netbook segment and hold 55 percent of the netbook market by 2012, according to Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network.
Castellano said Atom will hold 80 percent market share of the 21.5 million netbooks expected to be sold in 2009, but that technology [...]

Intel Nehalem servers power up Cloud Computing!

New “Nehalem” servers will anchor Intel’s renewed push into cloud computing, as the chipmaker focuses on mega data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers.
Intel’s cloud-computing efforts this year will be centered on a new server that uses upcoming Nehalem technology, Intel said Tuesday in a teleconference on its cloud-computing strategy. Nehalem is Intel’s new [...]

Dell partners with Citrix/Intel ‘bare-metal’ client hypervisor deal!

This just came in. Dell quickly made its point clear when it fully certified all Citrix/Intel delivered client boxes with bare-metal hypervisors. This may also come as no surprise since Dell too contributed to Microsoft’s giant Data Center build-ups. Intel is somehow more interested in building and collaborating on the vanilla hypervisor [with Xen] to [...]

Intel’s profit shrinks by 90% in Q4, 08

Intel Corp., the world’s biggest maker of semiconductors, said fourth-quarter profit dropped 90 percent after the recession curbed demand and forced the company to write down the value of its investments.
Net income fell to $234 million, or 4 cents a share, from $2.27 billion, or 38 cents, a year earlier, the company said today in [...]

Intel launches series of recession-aware quad-core chips for 2009

Intel has birthed a recession-friendly quad core mobile processor. And you can find one at the heart of a new Acer laptop. Maybe.
According to the Intel’s latest processor price list (PDF warning), the chip giant is offering five new mobile CPUs as of December 28: one ultra-low-cost quad core and four high-end dual cores.
The new [...]

Cloud Computing Project: Intel, HP, Yahoo’s secret project

We are really curious what this project’s outcome will be. I’d love to conenct to any of the above mentioned parties.
A handful of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech names are teaming up on a cloud computing project.
HP, Intel and Yahoo are pooling their resources to create a half-dozen new cloud computing centers for [...]