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Meshcentral.com - Run your own server with Mesh Server Installer
It’s been a long time coming but today is finally the day we released the first simple Mesh Server Installer allowing anyone to launch their own version of Meshcentral.com. The new installer is...
View ArticleDetecting CPU-bound Applications in Server Systems
Applications in data centers process huge workloads every day. Many of them are CPU intensive, disk I/O intensive, network I/O intensive or a combination thereof. Maintaining a data center is...
View ArticleIntel® Xeon® Processor E7 V2 Family New Reliability Features
NOTE: Over the first half of 2014 we will be adding more detail on how applications can be augmented to be more "Recovery Aware". Please subscribe to this page (button at the bottom) to receive...
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Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor Power Management Turbo Part 3: How can I design...
Previous blogs on power management and a host of other power management resources can be found in, “List of Useful Power and Power Management Articles, Blogs and References” at...
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Detecting Disk I/O-bound Applications in Server Systems
In my previous blog, “Detecting CPU-bound Applications in Server Systems”, I discussed how to detect a CPU-bound application. I continue the performance analysis and debugging discussion here in my...
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The Chronicles of Phi - part 1 The Hyper-Thread Phalanx
Recently I have been blessed with the opportunity to have a workstation with dual Intel® Xeon Phi™ 5110P coprocessors. One of the design goals of the Xeon Phi™ was to provide a programming environment...
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Meshcentral.com - VMware vSphere ESXi support
Meshcentral is already a powerful and portable cloud management solution and today, Rick Edgecombe is broadening support with the release of Meshcentral for VMware® vSphere ESXi 5.5 Hypervisor. You can...
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Developing a C# Plugin for The Intel® vPro™ Platform Solution Manager
If you’re not familiar with PSM I’d recommend having a look to the introduction presented by Gael in this post: http://intel.ly/MW65v6, there you’ll get a fairly good understanding on what the tool is...
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The Chronicles of Phi - part 2 Hyper-Thread Phalanx – tiled_HT1
In the first part I discussed the diffusion problem and the proposed strategy to address the performance issue through use of a Hyper-Thread Phalanx. I left you with the dangling question:How to...
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The Chronicles of Phi - part 3 Hyper-Thread Phalanx – tiled_HT1 continued
The prior part (2) of this blog provided a header and set of function that can be used to determine the logical core and logical Hyper-Thread number within the core. This determination is to be use in...
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The Chronicles of Phi - part 4 - Hyper-Thread Phalanx – tiled_HT2
The prior part (3) of this blog showed the effects of the first-level implementation of the Hyper-Thread Phalanx. The change in programming yielded 9.7% improvement in performance for the small model,...
View ArticleBKMs on the use of the SIMD directive
We had an ask from one of the various “Birds of a Feather” meetings Intel® holds at venues such as at the Super Computing* (SC) and International Super Computing* (ISC) conferences. The customer wanted...
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The Chronicles of Phi - part 5 - Plesiochronous phasing barrier – tiled_HT3
For the next optimization, I knew what I wanted to do; I just didn’t know what to call it. In looking for words that describes loosely-synchronous, I came across plesiochronous:In telecommunications, a...
View ArticleResources for Software Developers: Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)
There are many resources related to Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) that are available on the internet today. My attempt in this blog is to provide you with a list of the resources that...
View ArticleNotification: Update to Resource Guides for Developer and Administrator...
Hi all,I just wanted to let whoever is listening that I just published updates to the Resource Guide for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Developers and Resource Guide for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor...
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Goodbye Cluster, Hello Cloud: The *iHub_ Nairobi and Intel Hardware
Guest post by Jimmy Gitonga, Outgoing iHub Community Lead In 2012, Intel gave the iHub initial hardware for our Super Computer - a blade chassis populated with three blade serverswith Google...
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Meshcentral.com - Second IP address
Just a quick note to say that a few days back, we added a second static IP address to Meshcentral.com and made it known as "swarm.meshcentral.com". I configured the server so that port 443 on the new...
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Detecting Network-bound Applications in Server Systems
Following my previous blogs, Detecting CPU-bound Applications in Server Systems and Detecting Disk I/O-bound Applications in Server Systems, I will continue the discussion in this blog on detecting a...
View ArticleIndexing the Mahabharata
by N. ShamsundarThe Mahabharata may be compared to the Greek Iliad or the Persian Shahnameh. Such epics contribute considerably to the culture of a nation, provide a vehicle for learning national...
View ArticleGo Parallel 2
This is the second part of Go Parallel series (part 1) about parallel programming with Go language. As I promised we will look at parallel divide-and-conquer decomposition and parallel pipelines.Guess...
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