Intel Chip Chat

Nick Weaver, Director of Orchestration Engineering for the Data Center Solutions Group at Intel, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Weaver's work focuses on orchestration, scheduling, and evolving the data center through intelligent automation. In this interview, Weaver discusses rapid adoption of the Snap open telemetry framework. Weaver notes that Snap democratizes access to telemetry data that was previously available only in the largest, most advanced data centers. Additionally, Weaver highlights the benefits and results of Snap's collaboration with Raintank, makers of the popular Grafana open source data visualization dashboard, and talks about the future of data center telemetry and management. For more information on Snap, please visit http://snap-telemetry.io/. For more on Weaver's work, please follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lynxbat.

Dr. Brian Womack, Director of Distributed Analytics Solutions in Intel's Data Center Solutions Group, and Das Kamhout, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, join us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Intel is collaborating with a number of industry partners to deliver SDI technologies to data centers. Womack and Kamhout discuss the ways technologies like the Snap telemetry framework, Intel's Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP), and OpenStack are driving the industry towards a data center that thinks for itself. For more information on their work, follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/briandwomack and https://twitter.com/dkamhout.

Dr. Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow at Intel Labs, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Dr. Dubey's Parallel Computing Lab focuses on compute intensive applications such as machine learning. Dr. Dubey discusses the need to scale infrastructure to meet the growing demands of AI. Where software was once designed to make the right decisions, today it increasingly is designed to ask the right questions. Answering those questions using machine learning can require significant computational resources. Dr. Dubey highlights the ways Intel is accelerating machine learning via projects like the Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (Intel® MKL-DNN), an open source library for deep learning, and Intel-optimized Caffe, a fork dedicated to improving the framework's performance when running on CPUs, especially Intel® Xeon® processors. For more information on Dr. Dubey's work, please visit http://pcl.intel-research.net/.

Robert Blum, Director of Strategic Marketing & Business Development at Intel, Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Director of Engineering at Facebook, and Tom Issenhuth, Optical Network Architect at Microsoft, join us live from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. At the show, Intel announced that Intel® Silicon Photonics is in volume production in the form of 100G optical transceivers on open-standard, MSA (multi-source agreement) modules. The participants discuss the need for optical connectivity in today's hyperscale data centers, best practices for integrating optical connections, and the future migration to higher data rates and new optical standards. For more information on Intel Silicon Photonics, please check out Alexis Bjorlin's blog, "It’s Here: Bringing Light to Intel’s Silicon" (http://intel.ly/2cFlkpc) or visit www.intel.com/siliconphotonics.

Dr. Naveen Rao, VP and GM for Intel Machine Learning Solutions, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Dr. Rao recently joined Intel following the acquisition of Nervana Systems, which Dr. Rao cofounded. Dr. Rao seeks to understand biological computation in order to build smarter, more intuitive devices that interact with us in more natural ways. In this podcast, Dr. Rao discusses his and Nervana's early history, accelerating deep learning workloads with technologies like the Nervana Engine custom processor, and how Intel's acquisition of Nervana will allow Dr. Rao's team to think in completely different ways. For more information on Dr. Rao's work, please visit http://nervanasys.com and follow Nervana at https://twitter.com/nervanasys.

Dr. Julie Krugler Hollek, co-organizer of PyLadies San Francisco and Data Scientist at Twitter, joins us to discuss efforts to democratize participation in open source communities and the future of data science. PyLadies helps people who identify as women become participants in open source Python projects like The SciPy Stack, a specification that provides access to machine learning and data visualization tools. Dr. Hollek highlights the ways that her own engagement with Pyladies and Hackbright Academy laid the foundation for her current role as a Data Scientist at Twitter. Additionally, Dr. Hollek addresses the importance of ethical data use in creating unbiased data science algorithms. For more information on PyLadies, please visit http://www.pyladies.com/ and follow Dr. Hollek on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jkru.

Lynn Comp, Senior Director of Industry and Sales Enabling for the Network Platforms Group at Intel, joins us live from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Intel's Network Platforms Group seeks to transform the network to connect and enrich the world. Comp discusses how participants in Intel's Builders programs are developing systems to cope with the data deluge generated by the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communication. Comp also talks about Intel's role in advancing the network infrastructure ecosystem and the first deployments of long-discussed technologies like network function virtualization (NFV), cloud virtual radio access networks (Cloud vRAN), and mobile edge computing (MEC). To learn more, please visit https://builders.intel.com/ and follow Lynn on Twitter at https://twitter.com/comp_lynn.

Nidhi Chappell, the Director of Machine Learning Strategy at Intel joins us to announce Intel’s planned acquisition of Nervana Systems to further drive Intel’s capabilities in the artificial intelligence (AI) field. She describes how AI is quickly becoming a mainstream technology and is driving significant change in many industries today evolving common workloads like banking transactions, internet searches, smart factories, and more. Nidhi emphasizes how the expertise of Nervana Systems in deep learning and neural networks has the opportunity to benefit Intel’s AI innovation. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/machinelearning

In this Podcast James Hsu, Technical Marketing Director at Citrix chats about the collaboration between Intel and Citrix which continues to lead the industry with new and innovative graphics solutions. James discusses the technical and customer benefits of the Intel® Graphics Virtualization Technology (Intel® GVT) and the Intel® Xeon® E3-1500 v5 with Citrix XenServer virtualization platform and new Citrix XenDesktop HDX3D Pro Support on Intel. This industry first solution virtualizes the seamless delivery of rich graphics to multiple users from a single Xeon E3 processor with embedded Iris Pro Graphics. Enabling an unmatched level of price-performance to provide “rich graphics for the masses” to boost productivity and collaboration. Finally, James discusses market trends, customer feedback and looks to the future of how Citrix and Intel will continue to innovative in the graphics virtualization market. To learn more, visit www.citrix.com/desktop or follow Citrix on Twitter at https://twitter.com/XenDesktop

In this livecast from the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas we are joined by Dirk Peters, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Ittiam and Shantanu Gupta, Director of Business Development for the Media Accelerator Products group at Intel. Dirk talks about the collaboration between Ittiam and Intel to deliver solutions for media consumption and management. They emphasize how Ittiam utilizes Intel’s Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) PCle card because of the incredible cost and flexibility that it provides. To learn more, visit http://www.ittiam.com/ or http://www.intelserveredge.com/intelvca/