Intel Opens Up Key Server Acceleration Technology to Industry

Intel Opens Up Key Server Acceleration Technology to Industry

Intel Corporation announced today that it will encourage networking companies to benefit from a key server data input and output acceleration technology designed and added to its server product lines earlier this year. A component of Intel® I/OAT (Intel® Input/Output Acceleration Technology), Intel® QuickData Technology is a data acceleration engine that enables other networking and server vendors to increase the throughput of server data traffic. Key supporters of Intel QuickData Technology include Broadcom, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, Mellanox, Microsoft and VMware.

Introduced as part of I/OAT with the Intel® Xeon® 5100 series processor-based platforms earlier this year, the DMA (Direct Memory Access) engine in Intel’s server and workstation platform chipsets are the foundation of Intel QuickData Technology. I/OAT is already supported by a broad range of server vendors including IBM, Hitachi, NEC, Toshiba, Acer, Lenovo, Samsung, Supermicro and Tyan. Intel QuickData Technology will extend that support to a broad range of device manufacturers moving forward.

“By enabling products from other vendors to use the data acceleration engine present in the Intel Xeon 5100 and 5300 series-based platform, Intel QuickData Technology will help the industry benefit from the increased speed, scalability and server reliability that only Intel enterprise platforms can provide,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Server Products Group. “This echoes Intel’s long-held belief in the proliferation of key technologies designed to grow the industry’s computing and networking capabilities.”

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