Intel Chip Chat

Brandon Draeger, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Cray, joins Chip Chat to discuss the unique needs of HPC customers and how new Intel® technologies in Cray systems are helping to deliver improved performance and scalability. The Cray CS500 supercomputer includes standard rack configurations, a variety of cooling options, and a flexible software stack for users who are still investigating HPC deployments or just starting out. The XC50 that is more customizable with higher bin CPUs, accelerators, and custom interconnects as well as deployment support from Cray. Both lines are built to meet the core challenges facing HPC customers today. More and more, we are seeing the convergence of AI and HPC – users investigating how they can use AI to complement what they are already doing with their HPC workloads. This includes using machine and deep learning to analyze results from a simulation, or using AI techniques to steer where to take a simulation on the fly. One of the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalabl

Shadi Sahin, VP of Product Strategy at SAS, discusses trends in the data analytics sector and the new capabilities his team is bringing to market. SAS is focused on augmenting advanced and predictive analytics in the areas of computer vision and AI, allowing end-users to easily access key insights from large datasets. SAS is a long-time Intel partner and has been a quick adopter of innovative datacenter technologies including 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. To learn more about SAS solutions visit SAS.com and for more of technical deep dive visit blogs.sas.com. Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. Intel, the Intel logo, and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or othe

This is the moment for AI at the edge. That’s the view of Fabrizio Del Maffeo, Vice President and Managing Director for AAEON Technology Europe. He spoke with Chip Chat about AI trends his company sees emerging worldwide. A leading manufacturer of advanced industrial and embedded computing platforms, AAEON brought intelligence to industrial controls. Today, it supports artificial intelligence and sponsors UP Bridge The Gap*, a user community for established companies starting to use AI. There’s more data and more video at the edge than ever before, says Del Maffeo, and it must be processed at the edge rather than in the cloud because of security, privacy, and bandwidth limitations. Algorithms running in the cloud must run on completely different architectures at the edge. AAEON has embraced Intel technology, particularly the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit for porting code between platforms, something vital for customers moving from low-cost industrial architecture to high-performance Intel® Xeo

Accenture has partnered with Intel to provide Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory to its SAP HANA clients. In this episode, we talk with Jolie LeBlanc, Business Strategy Manager in the Semiconductor Practice at Accenture Strategy, about the partnership, the challenges and opportunities Accenture clients face with their in-memory databases, and how Intel® OptaneTM DC persistent memory can help. As one of the first system integrators with a comprehensive understanding of how to use and manage this new technology, Accenture has a unique perspective on how SAP HANA users can capitalize on this new technology category. The challenge many SAP HANA users face is that the ever-increasing database size drives up infrastructure costs and/or restricts users from keeping all relevant working data sets in their SAP HANA in-memory database – which limits the value users can derive from it. This is where Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory comes in. Based on Accenture’s testing, LeBlanc describes the benefits of persist

Joaquin Ruiz, Senior Director of Product Management at NetApp*, joins Chip Chat to talk about facilitating data access and analysis with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Ruiz is responsible for product management for NetApp advanced memory solutions, including the MAX Data* memory tiering solution. MAX Data enables a plug-and-play approach to using Intel Optane DC persistent memory with a number of applications, providing access to persistent memory without changes to the application itself. In this interview, Ruiz speaks to the effects of today's data explosion and how NetApp is helping to address storage and data challenges for customers in an array of verticals including financial services, government, retail, and healthcare. Ruiz notes that simply having data is no longer enough -- what counts is the ability to analyze and quickly act on data. Ruiz additionally forecasts how advancements like persistent memory will influence storage architectures in the future, including making large-scale data analys

Prasanna Sundararajan, founder and CEO for rENIAC, Inc., joins Chip Chat to talk about using Intel® FPGAs to accelerate demanding data-centric applications. rENIAC's solutions leverage Intel FPGAs to help customers surmount the unprecedented challenges presented by new data opportunities. Its Data Engine solution provides an intermediary layer between Apache Cassandra* clients and database nodes, bringing storage closer to the network through intelligent caching and accelerating transactional and AI applications. In this interview, Sundararajan discusses his and rENIAC's work, the bottlenecks that rENIAC and its customers have encountered when using NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra, and how rENIAC data engine, Intel FPGAs, and Intel® Optane SSDs are helping customers eliminate these bottlenecks. To learn more about rENIAC, please visit https://www.reniac.com/. To learn more about Intel FPGAs, please visit http://intel.com/fpga and follow http://twitter.com/intelfpga on Twitter. Intel technologies' feat

In this 10 min podcast, William Bell, Executive VP of Product at Cloud Service Provider phoenixNAP, discusses how cloud infrastructure is changing and how his team approaches meeting customer needs. Today's IaaS product offerings need to offer customers the freedom to leverage the right infrastructure for specific workloads. Customers are requiring infrastructure optimizations that support specific applications and are looking for the latest technology to improve performance while remaining cost-effective. phoenixNAP works with end-users to help ensure their specific workloads and applications are running on the best infrastructure possible. Partnering with Intel, phoenixNAP can offer their customers the latest cloud innovations such as Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory, Intel® Deep Learning Boost and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 ensuring their customers gain optimal performance in the cloud. Bell discusses how phoenixNAP end-customer, Panzura, improved their elastic search capabilities through

In this Chip Chat podcast, two storage technology experts, Dr. Felipe Franciosi from Nutanix, and Nate Marushak from Intel, describe how the open source reference library called SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) brings higher performance to the hyperconverged data center today – and holds promise for the future. A decade ago, when slow hard disk drives were the heart of a data center, efficiency was improved by designing software to avoid accessing physical media. Innovations in persistent memory and in networking technology have already brought vast improvements. High throughput and low latency are key. For systems that are latency-sensitive, applying SPDK can address software bottlenecks and open the way to even higher performance. To learn about the SPDK open community, see what companies are doing, and get involved, visit spdk.io. For information about Nutanix and its SPDK activities, including presentations, Google “Nutanix SPDK.” The company site is nutanix.com. To learn more about Intel d

Brian Bulkowski, founder of Aerospike, joins Chip Chat to talk about how Aerospike is facilitating a new class of databases for Internet-scale customers. Aerospike is a database company that created a ground-up platform to support the larger datasets and operational databases driven by use cases like retail catalogs, fraud detection, and telecommunications. In this interview, Bulkowski discusses how Aerospike is working to support customers generating terabytes of data from billions of transactions every day and shares his thoughts on Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, which Aerospike has found to reduce the restart time for an 8.7 TB database by up to 135x[1]. For more information on Aerospike, please visit aerospike.com. [1] Tests performed by Intel and Aerospike as of 27 February 2019 demonstrated that an 8.7 TB database could be restarted in as little as 35 seconds on a server configured with DRAM + Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory versus up to 4,745 seconds (1 hr 19 m 5 s) on a server configured wi

Brad Berkey, General Manager Worldwide SAP Sales at Microsoft, discusses the challenges SAP customers are facing within the datacenter. Businesses are going through the cloudification of the datacenter and transforming their infrastructure to leverage the benefits of the cloud. More specifically, SAP customers are dealing with the transition of their SAP applications to the S4 HANA database. This presents opportunity for accelerated innovation. Microsoft Azure and Intel are ideally positioned to help customers drive innovation in the cloud and customers are looking for integrated solutions. Customers are eager to leverage the benefits of Intel's 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Microsoft Azure facilitates and expedites adoption of these new technologies. Learn more about Microsoft Azure and SAP at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/sap/. You can also meet Brad and learn more about Intel's and Microsoft's joing solutions at the upcoming SAP Sapphire event in May: https://events.s

Smart companies are modernizing enterprise infrastructure as the foundation for new digital services; extracting insights from their data to accelerate business decisions; and securing their customers' data to avoid becoming another statistic. In this episode, Bill Giard explains how Intel and its partners are helping customers future-proof their businesses with cloud technology innovations. Through the ecosystem of solutions, customers will find what they need to accelerate digital transformation and compete more effectively. Bill Giard is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Data Center Group at Intel. He has 20+ years’ experience designing enterprise architectures and developing software solutions across supply-chain, product development, and enterprise infrastructure segments. Before joining DCG he led software development in Intel IT to modernize the application and computing environment. For more information about the Intel data-centric portfolio for enterprise customers, visit https://intel.com/xeo

Cristina Rodriguez is the Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division. She sits down with Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to talk about the transformation of the radio access network to support commercial 5G deployments around the globe. 5G services demand a new architectural approach for radio access networks. Communication service providers are not taking a one-size-fits-all approach to this transformation. Instead they are evaluating a mix of approaches, including traditional distributed, fully or centralized virtualization, integrated, micro cells and more. This pragmatic view positions CommSPs to leverage existing investments while introducing cloud architectural concepts. Similarly Intel takes a holistic solution view of each deployment that draws on a broad portfolio of high performance CPUs, SOCs with network acceleration, eASIC, FPGAs, software, storage and more. Cristina details the new “Snow Ridge” 10-nm SOC that extends Inte

Gautam Shah, president and CEO of Colfax International, joins host Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to discuss the launch of the new 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor. Gautam explains that this launch from Intel brought significantly more to the market this time with the announcement of Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and a host of related data center products and technologies. Colfax International, a leading provider of innovative and expertly engineered workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions, is excited by the opportunities now made possible with this latest set of data center technologies enabled by the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Specifically, Gautam highlights that the VNNI instruction set offered by Intel® Deep Learning Boost to improve performance in inference will allow Colfax customers to do more with AI, and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory will support the larger memory footprint Colfax customers need for solutio

Wei Li, Vice President of Intel® Architecture, Graphics and Software, and General Manager of Machine Learning and Translation at Intel, joins Chip Chat to share Intel’s overarching strategy and vision for the future of AI and outline the company’s edge to cloud AI portfolio. Wei discusses how Intel architecture enables consistency across different platforms without having to overhaul systems. He also highlights increased inference performance with the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost) technology, introduced at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Intel DL Boost speeds inference up to 14x [1] by combining what used to be done in three instructions into one instruction and also allowing lower precision (int8) across multiple frameworks such as TensorFlow*, PyTorch*, Caffe* and Apache MXNet*. He also touches on the work Intel has done on the software side with projects like the OpenVINO™ toolkit – which accelerates DNN workloads and optimizes deep learn

Dan Rodriguez, Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group, General Manager of Network Compute Division joins Chip Chat to talk about groundbreaking data centric portfolio of innovations optimized for network transformation. Fueled by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and complementary platform components, communication service providers can move, store, and process data with confidence across the most demanding workloads: from multi-cloud to intelligent edge and back. Flexibility, performance and ease of use is at the heart of the network transformation efforts in the communications industry. New 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and complimentary platform components are specifically designed to deliver these benefits from core to edge, especially as companies work to collapse multiple workloads onto a single server or rack of servers. Intel brought unique acceleration optimized for specific network workloads including virtual EPC, open virtual switching (OvS), 5G user plane funct

Tom Lattin, Vice President for Proliant and Cloudline Systems Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, joins Chip Chat to share excitement for technologies introduced on April 2nd at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Tom's organization leads product, technology, go-to-market, and supplier strategies for all ProLiant Racks, ProLiant Towers, Cloudline servers, and related HPE Software. Tom speaks to data opportunities occurring in a variety of verticals and how customer opportunities and challenges are inspiring HPE's edge-centric, cloud-enabled, and data-driven technologies. Tom discusses how 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are helping HPE deliver the capabilities customers need for key workloads like AI and deep learning and highlights HPE's collaboration with Intel around Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory to deliver new levels of memory capacity and storage performance. Finally, Tom outlines HPE's newest technologies for data-center security and monitoring. For more on HPE's offer

Brian Payne, Vice President for Product Management & Product Marketing for PowerEdge Servers at Dell EMC, joins Chip Chat to discuss satisfying future customer infrastructure needs with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Payne's team defines Dell's PowerEdge hardware portfolio, shepherding new products through development and into the marketplace, as well as contributing to the software and systems management capabilities used in PowerEdge. In this interview, Payne speaks to the advancement of the data center and IT transformation to being a central part of many businesses and how Dell is working to satisfy new and varied IT requirements. Payne highlights the move for many organizations to software-defined infrastructure and explains why this makes Intel Xeon processor based PowerEdge systems "the bedrock of the datacenter." Additionally, Payne talks about how Intel Optane DC persistent Memory is impacting the capabilities that Dell can deliver to its cu

In this episode of Chip Chat, Paul Nash, Product Manager Compute Engine on Google Cloud Platform at Google, discusses the industry trends impacting IaaS and how Google Cloud Platform together with Intel are driving innovation in the cloud. Together Google and Intel are optimizing hardware to support enterprise workloads including developing solutions for SAP HANA. Google Cloud Platform is also announcing a new family of instances that leverage Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Learn more about the benefits this new memory tier offers Google's customers along with more information on all the new instances being announced at Google Next 2019. For more information visit google.cloud.com. Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. In

During her last chip chat Lynn spoke about Visual Cloud use cases and how focusing on Media was simply insufficient. Intel continues to drive innovations in Visual Cloud. In this chip chat hear Lynn talk about Intel’s latest announcements from Intel at NAB 2019. Intel in collaboration with Netflix release into open source SVT-AV1, a highly efficient, performance rich, next generation codec for AV1. With ability to scale from VOD to real time encoding of 4k content the SVT-AV1 promises to make AV1 commercially viable. Learn why continued innovation in codecs is key to delivery of compelling user experiences at a global scale. Lynn also talks about Intel’s announcement of Open Visual Cloud, an open source project that enables a set of pre-defined reference pipelines for visual cloud use cases that are based on optimized open source software (for encode, decode, inference and render) with seamless support for standard industry frameworks. Open Visual Cloud will make it quick and easy for the ecosystem to innovat

Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager for Intel Xeon Products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins Chip Chat to cover all the big news from Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Spelman leads Intel's Data Center Group's marketing efforts from product definition to launch and ramp. In this Chip Chat, Spelman and host Allyson Klein recap an exciting event that introduced a broad range of new products for moving, storing, and processing data. Spelman discusses Intel's approach to data-centric computing and capabilities that Intel is unlocking to help customers to make data a fundamental and transformative part of their business. Spelman highlights the launches of 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, including processors performance-optimized for network function virtualization, Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processors for HPC, AI, and IaaS workloads, Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, Intel Optane SSDs, Intel® QLC 3D NAND SSDs, and Intel® Ethernet 800 Series. Spelman additionally speaks to