Intel Speeds Data Movement
Intel Corp., as part of its push to focus more on platforms than components, is introducing a technology designed to speed up the movement of data from the network to the application.
Source: eWeekIntel's I/O Acceleration Technology will enable systems to move data to data center applications 30 percent faster than current networked servers, said Stephen Chenoweth, marketing manager for Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
"This is solving one of the more perplexing problems that IT administrators are facing with servers," Chenoweth said.
Interconnect speeds and processor frequency is increasing, but applications aren't progressing as fast, he said. Intel's acceleration technology relies on components that already are in use, as opposed to TCP/IP offload engines that are used currently, said Frank Spindler, vice president of Intel's technology programs. The technology takes advantage of the protocol stack already in the CPU, the chip set copies the data, commands and data are processed in parallel and memory can be directly access in the network controller.
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