Intel® vProTM technology creates a powerful platform in which security and manageability go hand in hand. Since manageability is a crucial aspect of an enterprise’s network, it is extremely important to secure the manageability infrastructure against attacks from outside and inside the network. In this article, we delve into some of the most interesting security features that make Intel vPro te...

The asynchronous nature of the state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms such as the Asynchronous Advantage ActorCritic algorithm, makes them exceptionally suitable for CPU computations. However, given the fact that deep reinforcement learning often deals with interpreting visual information, a large part of the train and inference time is spent performing convolutions. In this work we...

0272-1732/00/$10.00  2000 IEEE The press and the technical community have generated much excitement and speculation about the IA-64 instruction set and the Itanium processor. Intel and HewlettPackard have rolled out (one instruction at a time) the instruction set. Intel is rolling out (one transistor at a time) the Itanium processor and other platform components. This special issue provides th...

With the rapidly growing demand for computing power new accelerator based architectures have entered the world of high performance computing since around 5 years. In particular GPGPUs have recently become very popular, however programming GPGPUs using programming languages like CUDA or OpenCL is cumbersome and errorprone. Trying to overcome these difficulties, Intel developed their own Many Int...

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises the benefits of reduced infrastructure, personnel, and management costs by outsourcing network middleboxes to the public or private cloud. Unfortunately, running network functions in the cloud entails security challenges, especially for complex stateful services. In this paper, we describe our experiences with hardening the king of middleboxes - In...

Model checking technologies have been applied to hardware verification in the last 15 years. Pioneering work has been conducted in Intel since 1990 using model checking technologies to build industrial hardware verification systems. This paper reviews the evolution and the success of these systems in Intel and in particular it summarizes the many challenges and learning that have resulted from ...

Cosmic dust particles effectively attenuate starlight. Their absorption of starlight produces emission spectra from the nearto far-infrared, which depends on the sizes and properties of the dust grains, and spectrum of the heating radiation field. The nearto mid-infrared is dominated by the emissions by very small grains. Modeling the absorption of starlight by these particles is, however, comp...

Intel introduced BIS-6630; fan-less ATOM processor based computing system with an unparalleled power-performance efficiency at 12W, in order to compete against mobile platforms; mainly ARM based computing systems. BIS-6630 falls in between powerful desktop PC's and low power mobile processors. In this research work we evaluate the metrics: power and performance for BIS-6630, Intel X86 based PC ...

across our design computing environment. By replacing aging servers on a regularly scheduled cadence, Intel has realized operational cost savings, avoided incremental data center capital spending, and gained capacity to support growing, business-critical design computing needs. The strategy saved Intel USD 45 million in 2008, and we expect to achieve savings of up to USD 250 million over eight ...

PIC methods are one of the most used methods in plasma simulations. We present a comprehensible evaluation of the PIC code performance on four current parallel platforms: IBM PowerPC, Intel Nehalem (SMP), Intel Sandy Bridge (SMP) and ARM GPU. The behavior of computational algorithms and data structures are analyzed to deduce which code optimizations will make the best use of each platform.