| November 9, 2009 9:00 PM PST | |
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Highlights from the Community Manager |
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| Your new Community Manager for Virtualization is Roger Herrick. A 10 year Intel veteran, Roger produces enterprise-related collateral serving scale programs of the Developer Relations Division and go-to-market programs for Intel field, group marketing and sales forces. Roger also leads the Developer Tech Exchange (DTE), a successful 2 year old program putting Intel technologists and technologies in front of ISV developer audiences at our top tier ISVs. Since the program began, some 34 DTE events have taken place bringing not only platform and architecture planning, but also cutting edge technological presentations on virtualization, multi-core / parallelization, cloud, SSD and other topics. Roger is also building a Community around the Intel Energy Checker (Intel® EC), an easy to use resource that allows one to correlate business productivity and energy consumption in a standard way. The Intel® Energy Checker SDK provides the tools to measure both software productivity and hardware platform energy consumption to facilitate reporting energy efficiency metrics. For more information on the Intel® Energy Checker, click here. | ||
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- Intel® Xeon® processor family
- Intel® Virtualization Technologies
- Intel® Node Manager and Intel® Data Center Manager
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ISV related, Intel Press and more
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- Virtualization Performance of SAP ERP* Solutions on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series with Microsoft Hyper-V New
- Virtualization Performance of SAP ERP* on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series with VMware New
- Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series helps Kingsoft boost performance for its MMOG gaming software New
- Achieving Twenty Four to One Web Server Consolidation using VMware vSphere 4.0 on Intel Xeon Processor Based Servers New
- Neusoft Telecom BSS Virtualized Application Performance on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series using VMware vSphere* 4 New
- Achieving Twelve to One Web Server Consolidation Using VMware vSphere 4.0 on Intel Xeon Processor Based Servers New
- Intel® Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Platforms New
- Breakthrough Security Capabilities and Energy-Efficient Performance for Cloud Computing Infrastructures New
- Applied Virtualization Technology by Campbell and Jeronimo
- System Virtualization courtesy of Dr. Dobb's
Some helpful acronyms
| ATA | Application Targeted Accelerators |
| BMC | Baseboard management Controller |
| Boxboro | Platform for Nehalem EX (Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series and Tukwilla |
| DCM | Data Center Manager |
| EP | Efficient Performance |
| EPT | Extended Page Tables |
| ESI | Enterprise Southbridge Interface |
| EX | Expandable Server |
| FBD | Fully Buffered DIMM |
| GT/s | Giga transfers per second |
| HA | Home Agent in QPI based systems |
| ICH | IO controller hub |
| IMC | Integrated Memory Controller |
| IOH | IO hub |
| L1, L2 | Respectively the first and second level caches |
| LA | Land Grid Array(a type of chip packaginig0 |
| LLC | Last Level Cache (on each chip) or Longest Latency Cache |
| MC | Mission Critical or Multi-core |
| MC | Memory controller |
| ME | Manageability engine |
| NM | Node Manger |
| NUMA | Non-uniform Memory Access |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interface (specification) |
| QPI | Quick Path Interconnect (Pt to Pt links) |
| RAS | Reliability, Availability, Serviceability |
| RMCP | Remote Monitoring and Control Protocol |
| SCTP | Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
| SDDC | Single Device Data Correction |
| SKU | Stock Keeping Unit (i.e., product variant) |
| SMB | Scalable Memory Buffer |
| SMB SMBus | System Management Bus |
| SMI | Scalable Memory Interface |
| SMT Threads | Simultaneous Multi-threading Threads or HW cpus on each core (2 if enabled, 1 if not) |
| SSExy | xy generation of vector instructions 9sTreaming SIMD extensions) |
| TDP | Thermal Design Power |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
| TPV | Third Party Vendor |
| Turbo | Technology enabling higher frequency execution for one or more cores |
| TXT | Trusted Execution Technology |
| Tylersburg | Platform for Nehalem EP (Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series) and Westmere EP(Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series) |
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