Intel Chip Chat

Christine Avanessians, Senior Manager of the Azure Blockchain Engineering team at Microsoft, joins us to talk about Microsoft’s new framework called Coco – a first-of-its-kind innovation that is accelerating enterprise readiness of blockchain. Blockchain, as explained by Christine, is a mechanism for secure multi-party computation that enables organizations to evolve business models and processes. Christine discusses how Microsoft is using Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) to add scalability, privacy, and confidentiality to blockchain transactions. For more information on Microsoft and Intel’s work on blockchain and Coco, please visit http://azure.microsoft.com/blog.

Marc Cohn, Vice President of Network Strategy at The Linux Foundation, joins Chip Chat to discuss a new call to action for broader collaboration among the Open Source community and telecommunication standards bodies.

Open source initiatives are moving up the stack, across the stack and across different industry segments. As these open source components rapidly matured, The Linux Foundation created the Open Platform for NFV as an end-to-end orchestration platform for vendors and operators to test and validate open source integrations between specific scenarios. This higher level initiative sought to strike a balance with other open source projects and provide development and operational environments for network operators to test new concepts. That’s the basis for orchestration to function across all working groups within The Linux Foundation, the Open Source community and broader SDN, NFV and telecommunication ecosystem.

Cohn explains the need to rethink the entire technology adoption lifecycle in the context of Agile development. The industry needs to help operators and end-users that are planning deployment of new-generation architectures and ensure that individual projects are considered as part of a broader ecosystem or architecture.

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history.

For general information, visit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/. Additionally, you can download the new Linux Foundation white paper titled, “Harmonizing Open Source and Standards in the Telecom World” at http://intel.ly/2vGWz8p.

Marc Cohn, Vice President of Network Strategy at The Linux Foundation, joins Chip Chat to discuss a new call to action for broader collaboration among the Open Source community and telecommunication standards bodies.

Open source initiatives are moving up the stack, across the stack and across different industry segments. As these open source components rapidly matured, The Linux Foundation created the Open Platform for NFV as an end-to-end orchestration platform for vendors and operators to test and validate open source integrations between specific scenarios. This higher level initiative sought to strike a balance with other open source projects and provide development and operational environments for network operators to test new concepts. That’s the basis for orchestration to function across all working groups within The Linux Foundation, the Open Source community and broader SDN, NFV and telecommunication ecosystem.

Cohn explains the need to rethink the entire technology adoption lifecycle in the context of Agile development. The industry needs to help operators and end-users that are planning deployment of new-generation architectures and ensure that individual projects are considered as part of a broader ecosystem or architecture.

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history.

For general information, visit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/. Additionally, you can download the new Linux Foundation white paper titled, “Harmonizing Open Source and Standards in the Telecom World” at http://intel.ly/2vGWz8p.

Mike Nelson, Senior Strategic Planner of Datacenter Products for NSG, the Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group at Intel, joins us to discuss the Ruler SSD, Intel’s revolutionary new SSD built for the data center. In this interview, Mike discusses Ruler SSD’s increased density, simplified manageability, and improved thermal capabilities compared to existing form factors as well as Intel’s role in driving the standardization of Ruler SSD.

Mike Nelson, Senior Strategic Planner of Datacenter Products for NSG, the Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group at Intel, joins us to discuss the Ruler SSD, Intel’s revolutionary new SSD built for the data center. In this interview, Mike discusses Ruler SSD’s increased density, simplified manageability, and improved thermal capabilities compared to existing form factors as well as Intel’s role in driving the standardization of Ruler SSD.

Dr. Naveen Rao, VP and GM for Intel's Artificial Intelligence Products Group, joins us to talk about his work since Intel's acquisition of his start-up Nervana Systems in August, 2016. Dr. Rao's Artificial Intelligence Products Group aligns Intel's AI efforts under one organization and works to deliver world-changing technologies like autonomous vehicles, personalized medicine, and smart factories. In this interview, Dr. Rao discusses how biological computation is influencing computer science, provides an overview of Intel's AI solutions portfolio, and forecasts the exciting end-user applications that Intel AI will help deliver. For more information on Dr. Rao's and AIPG's work, please visit https://www.intelnervana.com/.

Dr. Naveen Rao, VP and GM for Intel's Artificial Intelligence Products Group, joins us to talk about his work since Intel's acquisition of his start-up Nervana Systems in August, 2016. Dr. Rao's Artificial Intelligence Products Group aligns Intel's AI efforts under one organization and works to deliver world-changing technologies like autonomous vehicles, personalized medicine, and smart factories. In this interview, Dr. Rao discusses how biological computation is influencing computer science, provides an overview of Intel's AI solutions portfolio, and forecasts the exciting end-user applications that Intel AI will help deliver. For more information on Dr. Rao's and AIPG's work, please visit https://www.intelnervana.com/.

New media solutions like VR/AR require fast, efficient processing to deliver high-quality video. Eli Lubitch, President of Beamr, discusses how the BEAMR 5 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) application enables real-time software-based encoding that supports 10-bit High Dynamic Range video. The Beamr 5 software encoder leverages the on-chip graphics capability of the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1585 v5 with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics P580 to enable a superior combination of image quality and bitrate. For multi-service operators, satellite providers, and OTT streaming, Beamr’s HEVC software solution and Intel’s on-chip graphics processing technology simplify platform deployments and capture significant performance efficiencies per watt by increasing density.

Stuart Boorn, head of Video Compression Product Management for Ericsson, joins Intel Chip Chat at NAB Show 2017 to discuss Ericsson’s new MediaFirst Video Processing Suite that leverages Intel® Quick Sync Video encoding technology. Launched at NAB Show, Ericsson MediaFirst powers a range of OTT services and gives customers the ability to launch new video services faster than ever before. This new product works closely with Intel graphics technologies to support the evolving and expanding media streaming market. Learn more at www.ericsson.com.

Paul Nash, Group Product Manager for Compute Engine at Google Cloud, joins us to discuss being the first company to bring the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform to the cloud. Google Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that delivers to consumers some of the cloud technologies that Google developed to power services like Google Search and Gmail. In this interview, Nash talks about the decade-long collaboration history between Google and Intel, the Intel Xeon Scalable platform features that have Google most excited, and the benefits customers already are seeing with Intel Xeon Scalable processors and workloads like genomics, weather forecasting, financial services, and scientific visualization. For more information on Google Cloud, please visit https://cloud.google.com/intel and https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/. For more information on the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, please check out the Intel Xeon Scalable platform launch at https://launchevent.intel.com, learn more at https://intel.com/xeonscalable, and look for #XeonScalable on Twitter.