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Using Amdahl's Law for Energy Efficient Performance Estimation?

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (193 posts) on January 26, 2012 at 1:24 pm
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While trying to find an answer to my previous question, I stumbled across the paper "Extending Amdahl's Law for Energy-Efficient Computing in the Many-Core Era" (Computer, Dec. 2008, pp. 24-31) by Dong Hyuk Woo and Hsien-Hsin S. Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology). The title had me thinking that this might be an investigation into finding [...]

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Category: Parallel Programming, Power Efficiency

Meshcentral.com - Now with Pogoplug support!

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 24, 2012 at 9:38 pm
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A few weeks back I went on eBay and got myself two Pogoplug devices. Very nice little media and file sharing devices, you plug storage in the USB ports and you get access to the data anywhere on the internet. The devices are not expensive at all and very functional. One of the things that [...]

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Category: Manageability & Security, Mobility, Open Source, Power Efficiency
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Getting “Down to the Wire” for the Intel AppUp developer challenge: Web Apps Edition

By Kelli Gizzi (11 posts) on January 24, 2012 at 3:12 pm
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The January 30, 2012 deadline for the Intel AppUpSM developer challenge is fast approaching. In case you haven’t read the fine print in the Official Rules (and you should!), I want to reiterate them and make sure everyone knows the nuances of that de...

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How to run the SCS Discovery Tool

By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (124 posts) on January 24, 2012 at 10:44 am
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Do you have a system that you believe is Intel(R) AMT capable and you are trying to run  samples but are getting an errors?  Here are some tips on how to make sure your systems *is* Intel AMT capable and is also capable of running the samples in the SDK 1.  Download and run the SCS Discovery [...]

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Meshcentral.com - Improved MacOSX support

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on January 23, 2012 at 6:47 pm
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One of the problems I have been facing over the last few months was around the Mac OSX mesh agent. It just did not work right and so, over the last two weeks, I really made a big effort to improve it. Today, I released version 1.54 of the agent that seems to work much [...]

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Upcoming February Technical Presentation

By Elizabeth S (Intel) (10 posts) on January 23, 2012 at 1:50 pm
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Happy New Year! A technical presentation has been scheduled for February 15, 2012: Future-Proof Your Application's Performance With Vectorization.  This presentation is for C, C++, and Fortran developers, and will help you get started understanding and evaluating vectorization using new technologies such as Intel® Cilk Plus, pragma SIMD and the Intel Compiler’s Guided Auto Parallelization [...]

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Intel AppUp Application Labs coming to GDC!

By BrianSchnepf (9 posts) on January 23, 2012 at 9:20 am
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The Intel AppUpSM Application Labs will be in San Francisco!  Join us at the Game Developers Conference, March 7-9, 2012 to learn how to create exciting experiences with the Intel AppUpSM developer program.  Listen to Intel Technical Mar...

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Accessing Intel® Power Gadget 2.0 library in C++

By Seung-Woo Kim (Intel) (1 posts) on January 21, 2012 at 11:25 am
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With the release of Intel® Power Gadget 2.0 there is now externally callable API’s to extract power information within sections of code. The API layer is a set of libraries and dlls that can be called via C/C#/C++ or via JavaScript and offers the flexibility to build the tool within code sections of an application. [...]

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Category: Mobility, Power Efficiency, Software Tools, Uncategorized
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How to Configure your System to Run the IntelvPro PowerShell Module

By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (124 posts) on January 20, 2012 at 2:22 pm
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If you are trying to run the vPro PowerShell scripts on your management console but are running into errors, it is possible that either the vPro PowerShell Module has not been installed and/or it is not configured correctly.   The following steps demonstrate how to configure your system in order to use this powerful interface. Step [...]

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Show 15 - SDK Optional and fun with HTML5 Playground

By AppUp Show (20 posts) on January 20, 2012 at 8:27 am
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In this show Bob Duffy talks with Vipul Chopra and reveals a new program level change to help developers more easily get apps into AppUp. Bob also chats with Daniel Holmlund to get a sneak peak at HTML5 playground read more

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Show 15 - SDK Optional and fun with HTML5 Playground

By AppUp Show (20 posts) on January 20, 2012 at 8:27 am
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In this show Bob Duffy talks with Vipul Chopra and reveals a new program level change to help developers more easily get apps into AppUp. Bob also chats with Daniel Holmlund to get a sneak peak at HTML5 playground read more

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How to create AMT Certificates using the AMT SDK and OpenSSL

By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (124 posts) on January 18, 2012 at 4:26 pm
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Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Ajith Illendula and Sudeepti Balepur for sending this guide to me in order to share with our vPro Developers Community. Objectives: 1.  Create certificates for Intel AMT TLS encryption using the Intel AMT SDK and OpenSSL 2.  Using the  TLS.ps1 script,  configure non TLS configured Intel AMT systems to use  TLS communication [...]

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New Intel Gaming and Graphics Samples, Q4 Last Year

By Philip Taylor (Intel) (7 posts) on January 18, 2012 at 3:32 pm
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It has been a while since I blogged, so I wanted to update everyone on some sample updates that happened late last year. SNB Terrain is here, its abstract states: This sample demonstrates how to render large-scale terrains on Sandy Bridge in real time by efficiently distributing the tasks between the CPU cores and the [...]

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How would you define "Energy Efficient"?

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (193 posts) on January 18, 2012 at 2:29 pm
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Say your boss comes to you and tells you to ensure that the software project you are working on is energy efficient. (Go ahead, I'll wait while you say it.) There are all kinds of ideas to be found on the Power Efficiency Community site on how to accomplish this assignment. What I'd like to [...]

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Category: Power Efficiency

Jeff's Notebook: Intel® vPro ™ Developer Community - A resource for developing PC manageability & security software

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (42 posts) on January 17, 2012 at 3:13 pm
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Well, 2012 is here and with the New Year, you'll be seeing some new topic areas for my blogs.  This year, I'm going to be exploring the additional areas of PC manageability and security software.  This is an area that continues to gain attention by IT managers and software developers that are trying to address the [...]

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