Intel Keynote at JavaOne

By David Stewart (Intel) (71 posts) on May 8, 2008 at 8:18 am

This is the second JavaOne I have attended, and Intel has been a big sponsor. This year, the VP of my division is giving the Intel keynote.

Doug got sick on Monday of this week, and being in San Francisco, he got a lot of home remedies and Chinese herbs to fix him up. He made a joke about this in the beginning of the talk.

Doug introduced the Tick-Tock model, our relentless innovation clock where we get predictable annual advances. "MilliWatts to PetaFLOPs" is the theme of what Intel is delivering.

First task - build an awareness that software is critical to the success of hardware. Doug showed how Intel is involved in the whole software stack.

Doug announced that Threading Building Blocks is now available today for OpenSolaris, and will be in a repository.

For OpenSolaris, he outlined how we're adding dramatic performance improvements, fault management and power savings.

In virtualization, he talked about how Intel is the #2 contributor to Xen. And when you combine this with the work we're doing with OpenSolaris, and the resulting Sun xVM Server product enjoys the best of both of these.

Now to Java - this is JavaOne after all. At JavaOne last year, we showed a 20% performance improvement on the JVM. This year, the goal was a 60% performance improvement on software only. They actually were able to achieve 68% improvement. This is rather incredible. I know as I used to run the server performance group, and we used to strive for a year just to get single-digit improvement. Now when you add new hardware, you get even more improvement, and Sun announced a new world record in Java performance this week.

PetaFLOPs looks good - what about MilliWatts? Intel announced the Atom processor for a new class of low power applications, such as Mobile Internet Devices. Doug pulled a vile of 1,000 Atom processors from his pocket to show off. Finally, there was an invitation to join moblin.org, Intel's open source effort to enable MIDs.

I got some good comments and feedback from someone at Sun that the messages were clear and we didn't try to push too much to the audience.

Intel Keynote at JavaOne

By David Stewart (Intel) (71 posts) on May 8, 2008 at 8:18 am

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