Day 2: Keynotes: Linux and Intel, the Power of the Net



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 Sean Maloney, Senior Vice President of Intel gave the presentation.
He first started with a quick history of Intel, where he started working back in the 286 days.

Sean showed a graph showing that these last years, Intel had shipped more Mips than all the previous years combined
From a few engineers working on the first Intel CPUs to more than 500 engineers working at the same time on a single CPU now.
In one of their videos, they mentioned that they have now reached the .06 micron transistor barrier

For Sean, the challenges of the internet is providing connectivity in more and more places, but then you hit the problem of sensory overload. He gave Google as an example of a newer search engine and we got a demo of it. Goggle has an option to find the page that is most relevant to your search, instead of showing 1000 hits or more

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Another funny thing is that Mandrake demoed Enlightenment and Xinerama, which are really cool ways of using that spare CPU you might have, or a good reason to buy more CPUs, or a multi-CPU system. I wonder why Intel wanted to demo this? :-)

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Two other demos followed of things that VA Linux Systems is doing with Linux Hardware. First John Goebel demonstrated the computing power of clusters by rendering a pov image in a few seconds, and San Mehat demonstrated the control of clusters through the new Intel bios redirection and the other info you can get through IPMI and VACM (server interrogation and control through the network).
Those two demoes addressed the two other challenges that San had for the internet: instant response and total reliability.

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Andy Grove then came over to talk:
According to him, 4% of the 2005 demand is currently deployed, and that's a great opportunity for intel and their new architecture, IA-64.

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Then, they finished with a quick demo of the current trillian port of Linux on IA64 on the software simulator.

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