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Ready.Set.7.- Intel and Windows 7

By Doug Holland (Intel) (211 posts) on July 13, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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After receiving an e-mail from Rafael Rivera today, I discovered that one of my previous blog posts, entitled Windows 7 'Incredibly Stable,' Intel Expert Says, was featured in a video on the Microsoft Showcase site. Within the video, Renee James, CVP & GM, Software and Services Group, Intel shares her thoughts on Windows 7 and how [...]

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Category: Multi-Core, Software Engineering, Virtualization

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Import and Export

By Doug Holland (Intel) (211 posts) on July 13, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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In the coming few days I'm going to be looking at some of the continuous integration capabilities in the current version of Team Foundation Server. I have been using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization for some time to explorer capabilities in existing software along with beta software and so I began by creating a new virtual [...]

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Category: Multi-Core, Software Engineering, Virtualization

Working with Intel AMT: Just About Done

By Stephen Hibbert (Intel) (9 posts) on July 13, 2009 at 10:06 am
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Last week, I posted some screenshots of my management console, IT Helper 1.0. It's been just 3 weeks since I first talked about the project and I'm already finished. I've still got some testing and documentation to do, but everything else is finished. Here's a brief list of features: Hardware Asset Platform (computer model, manufacturer, version, serial number) BIOS [...]

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Category: Manageability

What happened to our Search Tool?? Everyone needs to know a Gina B!

By Gael Holmes (Intel) (83 posts) on July 13, 2009 at 9:52 am
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Why?  Well you just do.  Gina B. knows everything from what to use to clean off all that icky and dangerous stuff that comes on our fruit and veggies to where on our Forum do we find our favorite Search tool that disappeared a month or so ago. Here is what it looks like - it lets you pick which [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability

Doctor Fortran in "I've Come Here For An Argument, Side 2"

By Steve Lionel (Intel) (18 posts) on July 10, 2009 at 11:20 am
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My earlier post, "I've Come Here For An Argument", was very popular with my fellow support engineers, as it provided a convenient answer to questions they frequently receive.  (For me too, which in part is why I wrote it!) But some people (cough, Ron, cough) are never satisfied, and I've been asked to write a [...]

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Category: Software Engineering

Want a free exhibition pass to SIGGRAPH?

By Gina Bovara (Intel) (31 posts) on July 9, 2009 at 6:38 pm
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  We are sure getting excited to meet you all in-person at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans on August 3-7! Want to attend the show but can't afford a pass?  No problem! Come by and join our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/intelsoftwarenetwork.  Then write a message on our wall asking for your complimentary SIGGRAPH pass courtesy of Intel and I will message you directly [...]

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Category: Events, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, Visual Computing

June/July in the Intel Academic Community

By Paul Steinberg (Intel) (11 posts) on July 9, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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Now that classes are done for many of us, we can start turning our attention to research and training projects. This last month saw some really great activities in the Middle East; I’ll be highlighting a few of those.  I’ll  also be be talking about the debut of Intel Software Network TV, a powerful new [...]

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Category: Academic

How do *You* get the Intel® AMT info that you need?

By Gael Holmes (Intel) (83 posts) on July 9, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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One of the things we are always trying to figure out on our Manageability Community is how does the community like to get their information. This poll asked the community where they find their best answers to their Intel AMT questions (note: not where they would *like* to find their best answers - which I [...]

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Category: Manageability

n-bodies: implementing a parallel solution in Intel TBB

By Robert Reed (Intel) (13 posts) on July 9, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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With the growing interest in parallel code, a quest has arisen for parallel algorithms and parallelizable algorithms to feed the beast of multi-core. This post marks the start of a series exploring at least the rudiments of the n-body gravitational problem and a recursive parallel algorithm from Matteo Frigo that orders the chaos.

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Category: Gaming, Multi-Core, Threading Building Blocks

Where were you at 12:34:56 7/8/9?

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (109 posts) on July 9, 2009 at 8:38 am
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Of course, for my friends in Europe, the verb in the question is "will be" since this specific time is still a month away.

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Category: Uncategorized

Getting IPv6 at home & writing code

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (86 posts) on July 7, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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IPv6 has always been a foreign topic to me, there weird addresses and more complex tunneling systems made it an uncharted world I never step foot in. On the other hand, I do know that all quality software these days should support IPv6. In this blog, I want to talk about my last 2 [...]

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Category: Software Engineering

Parallel Programming Talk #38 - Listener Question "Senior Project"

By Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) (102 posts) on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 pm
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For our first Thursday of the month Listener Question show we choose a question from the Parallel Programming forum. Download and MP3 of the show. Download a high quality MP4 video of this episode (about 240MB). News: Parallel Programming Talk is streamed live every Tuesday at 8:00AM PST and is available on both BlogTalkRadio as well as Intel Software [...]

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Category: Multi-Core

Directory Tip #1: Add a Video

By Susan Bravo (Intel) (6 posts) on July 7, 2009 at 12:08 pm
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This is the first installment of the Software & Partner Directory Tips & Trick blog series.  Each month the Intel Software Partner Program newsletter will feature a new tip about the directory.  I would love feedback from those of you that try out the tips, best practices you want to share with other directory participants, [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

Highlights and Challenges During Ghostbusters Development, Part 4

By Mark Randel (4 posts) on July 7, 2009 at 8:07 am
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Synchronization between threads in the Infernal Engine Thread synchronization is a complicated problem and rarely discussed in practice. We came to our own conclusions via experimentation and what worked well for us during the production of Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters used two kinds of synchronization primitives, "crude locks" and "critical sections". A crude lock is [...]

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Category: Gaming, Visual Computing

Visualize this! GPG CEO Chris Taylor on Demigod and its use of GPA

By Arti Gupta (Intel) (14 posts) on July 6, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Visualize this! where we talk about topics relating to Visual Computing. I am Arti Gupta, community manager for Games Development on the Intel Software Network. Our guest today is Chris Taylor CEO Gas Powered Games. Chris will talk to us about the making of [...]

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Category: Gaming, Multi-Core, Visual Computing
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