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Thomas is a software engineer working since 2005 in Intel's Developer Relations Division. In this role, he helps independent software vendors to optimize their software for Intel hardware and take advantage of its latest features. Thomas has a master in mathematics from the University of Constance and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe. |
IDF2010: Memory error handling in SAP* in-memory database on Intel® Xeon® 7500 processor series
By Thomas Willhalm (Intel) (4 posts) on September 10, 2010 at 8:20 pm
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IDF10: Memory error handling in SAP* in-memory database on Intel® Xeon® 7500 processor series. SAP has announced at Sapphire that they are working towards revolutionizing their enterprise software by taking advantage of their in-memory technology, which will allow fast queries and real-time processing. Instead of waiting hours to compile reports or days to replicate data [...]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Enterprise Architecture, idf, IDF2010, Intel Xeon processor 7500 series, Machine Check Architecture, RAS, SAP
The power to run enterprise software
By Thomas Willhalm (Intel) (4 posts) on December 22, 2009 at 6:55 am
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Up until recently, the most important question when buying a new server for enterprise software was what server could provide the required performance. The SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark is the de-facto industry standard for measuring the performance of enterprise software on a server and its results are used by SAP in their sizing [...]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: benchmark, enterprise software, Power Efficiency, SAP
IDF09: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer at the speed of Nehalem-EX
By Thomas Willhalm (Intel) (4 posts) on September 16, 2009 at 1:14 am
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At Sapphire in May, SAP has introduced the accelerated version of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. It combines a very intuitive user interface with the speed of an in-memory database that answers arbitrary queries within seconds. The user interface is so easy to use that random people like me are able to handle it. (I am an application engineer, [...]
Category: Events
Tags: Business Intelligence, idf_2009, idf_30in30tags, SAP
Very large data bases in memory
By Thomas Willhalm (Intel) (4 posts) on August 28, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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This week, I was attending the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases in Lyon. I must confess that this was my first conference on data bases, so this is sort-of an outsider view. I was very pleased to see that this is a very open and friendly research community that is very well [...]