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Building Intelligent Systems	Energy Aware Computing	Creating the Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
Security Battleground	Quick Boot	A Vision for Platform Autonomy

Intel Press books are essential for computer product Developers and IT professionals because they are timed with industry roadmaps. Our books are a simple way to learn from the experts about the latest technologies from Intel.

The Intel Press Engineering Series of books are written by technical experts, resulting in "engineer-to-engineer" content. The books are designed to educate and meet the needs of computer system developers, integrators, and engineers about solutions based on Intel® architectures. Often the first titles to market on the subjects, these books contain the latest and most up-to-date information about Intel products and initiatives.

For the IT Best Practices Series, Intel has teamed with leading companies and computer industry experts to publish a comprehensive IT Best Practices Series of books. The result is a single reference source for IT professionals who plan, develop, deploy, and manage Intel® Architecture-based e-Business environments.

Intel Press Books - Computer System Design

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Energy Aware Computing In response to the worldwide demand for resource conservation and sustainability, Energy Aware Computing provides solutions in designing energy-saving computer systems from small mobile devices to large enterprise data centers. The authors describe how computer systems can save power by making energy-efficient hardware and software decisions at the design stage.	Building the Power-Efficient PC Here is the first comprehensive hardware and software engineering guide for designing power-managed PCs. Written by PC experts, this book provides developers and integrators with practical knowledge and design techniques for building PCs that address the increasing demand for energy conservation. With power management, a PC can have lower overall power utilization, automated off-...
Dynamics of a Trusted Platform Security threats are increasing in volume, diversity, and sophistication at the same time that high-value, sensitive data is more commonly being generated, used, and stored on standard business PCs. While the traditional focus of network protection has been on servers and network access devices, these PCs are typically lightly protected, coupled with the fact that a compromised PC may offer...	Serial ATA Storage Architecture & Applications Today, hard disk drives for desktop PCs, laptops, servers, and storage appliances use either Parallel ATA or SCSI interconnect technology. Serial ATA is the new storage interconnect standard for these systems. Computer engineers and architects who plan to incorporate Serial ATA in new products must answer questions such as: "Why make the change? What problems does Serial ATA solve for...
Energy Efficiency for Information Technology Minimizing power consumption is one of the primary technical challenges that today's IT organizations face. Laurie Minas and Brad Ellison highlight how power consumption has grown quickly, driven by the sheer number of servers deployed in datacenters. The operational expense for energy over a three year period of operation will soon equal the capital expense of hardware. Rack and blade...	Designing High-Speed Interconnect Circuits Personal computer data rates have already climbed into the multi-Gigahertz frequency range that requires microwave design techniques for interconnect circuitry. Have your design skills kept pace? Most digital designers were trained in an era when you could use idealized models to simplify circuitry design. The very high speeds demanded for today's computers negate the benefits and...
Weaving High Performance Multiprocessor Fabric Welcome to the era of the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect! Weaving High Performance Multiprocessor Fabric is written for hardware design, validation and BIOS engineers to introduce the compelling mix of performance and features in the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect. From the foreword, Robert P. Colwell opines: "Even for inveterate geeks like me, most technical...	PCI Express* Electrical Interconnect Design Intel and other companies throughout the computer and communications industries are adopting PCI Express* technology as the successor to today's Conventional PCI* and PCI-X* architectures. The PCI Express serial architecture offers scalable bandwidth and advanced features to meet the I/O needs of next-generation systems. PCI Express Electrical Interconnect Design* is a...
Mastering High Performance Multiprocessor Signaling Welcome to the era of the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect! Mastering High Performance Multiprocessor Signaling explains the electrical design, board layout, test & measurement, and validation elements involved in implementing the Intel QuickPath Interconnect, the foundation of future generations of Intel® microprocessor systems, using a high speed, packetized,...	Introduction to PCI Express* This book offers an introduction to PCI Express*, a new I/O technology for desktop, mobile, server and communications platforms designed to allow increasing levels of computer system performance. Hardware and software developers will discover how to employ PCI Express technology to overcome the practical performance limits of existing multi-drop, parallel bus technology. ...
Beyond BIOS 2nd Edition In Beyond BIOS: Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface the authors have updated the successful first edition to include the latest UEFI specifications and have expanded the scope of the book to include support of embedded and SOC platform designs.	USB Design by Example, 2nd Edition This unique guide goes beyond all the Universal Serial Bus (USB) specification overviews to provide you with the expert knowledge and skills you need to design and implement USB I/O devices. It is organized around a series of fully documented, real-world examples, and is structured to serve as both a step-by-step guide for creating specific devices and a complete reference to USB. Design...
High Definition Audio for the Digital Home The personal computer is evolving to become an integral component of the digital home. Essential to assuming this new role will be the ability to deliver high-fidelity audio that is equivalent to home entertainment system audio. High Definition Audio for the Digital Home provides hardware and software developers a wealth of insight into all aspects of personal computer high...

Intel Press Books - IT Best Practices Series

Intel has teamed with leading companies and computer industry experts to publish a comprehensive IT Best Practices Series of books. The result is a reference source for IT professionals who plan, develop, deploy, and manage Intel® Architecture based e-Business environments.

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Security Battleground Security has evolved from a tactical IT concern to boardroom-level dilemma. This transition has challenged many executives who are now obligated to protect their organization's critical assets. Security Battleground: An Executive Field...	The Adaptive Enterprise The agile business embraces change rapidly and gracefully. To be ready, the business needs an infrastructure that supports change without disruption or excessive cost. An adaptive infrastructure enables the business to cope with unforeseen...
Creating the Infrastructure for Cloud Computing Written for the professional IT engineer, Creating the Infrastructure for Enterprise Cloud Computing is the essential practical guide to the theory, practice, and implementation of virtual service grids. The book is organized into...	Enriching the Value Chain How do forward-thinking IT professionals organize infrastructure and staff to meet the challenges of e-Business value chain initiatives head-on? Enriching the Value Chain gives you the answers: ...
Managing IT Innovation for Business Value Successful companies actively cultivate new ideas, put those ideas to work quickly and efficiently, and harvest the business value benefits of successful innovations. Discussions of innovation often focus on what a company offers, that is, its...	Building Operational Excellence Running an effective and efficient IT organization goes beyond just having the right technology in place. IT organizations must have effective ways to meet increased workloads, manage staff levels, and to collaborate more effectively with...
Service Oriented Architecture Demystified Is your organization ready to adopt a service oriented approach to information technology? Have you ever wondered if Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments in other organizations have been successful? How did they approach the...	The Business Value of Virtual Service Oriented Grids "In this book the authors track the trends, create new rules based on new realities, and establish new market models. With virtual service oriented grids, the sky is the limit," writes Wei-jen Lee, University of Texas - Arlington...
Managing Information Technology for Business Value Managing Information Technology for Business Value is Martin Curley's call for IT and business managers to reformulate the way they manage IT. Traditionally, IT success has been measured in terms of IT parameters such as up time,...	Active Platform Management Demystified Has your IT organization felt the need for accurate asset management, reduced downtime with fewer deskside visits, and improved malware prevention and response? Want a solution for out-of-band manageability and security when the...
Securing Business Information Securing Business Information: Strategies to Protect the Enterprise and Its Network provides an approach to security that is derived from numerous successful implementations. The Enterprise Security Plan (ESP) is a six-step process for...	Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology In today's fast moving competitive business environment, companies increasingly demand that IT investments demonstrate business value through measurable results. David Sward directly addresses this challenge in his book Measuring the...

Intel Press Books - Network Infrastructure

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Infiniband* Architecture Development and Deployment

This book is the first to interpret the InfiniBand specification as it applies to high-performance, inter-system I/O. From it, you get the knowledge and insight necessary to develop innovative solutions for system I/O and inter-process communication. The author guides you through the architecture, illustrating ways that you can implement and deploy InfiniBand-based products to relieve I/O...

IXP1200 Programming

This book shows software engineers how to program the microengines of Intel's IXP1200 family of network processors. Assuming no particular background or experience with Intel® Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel® IXA) components, the book begins with a description of the hardware and development environment. You get an explanation of the right, and sometimes the wrong,...

The Virtual Interface Architecture

This book explains how VI provides a new interface between applications and switched interconnect hardware. Just as Virtual Memory allowed personal computers to break through physical memory limitations, VI solves the long-standing problem of efficiently interfacing general-purpose computers to high-speed switched networks. This book shows how implementing VI can lower overhead by two orders...

IXP2400/2800 Programming

This expert guide is written with one express purpose: to empower software engineers to program Intel's newest network processors successfully. The authors focus on the Intel IXP2XXX product line microengines, detailing how best to leverage parallel processing in the data plane. From these Intel pioneers, you will learn proven approaches to programming the network processors and ways to...

Using IXP2400/2800 Development Tools

For any member of the networking application development team, Using IXP2400/2800 Development Tools shows you how to use these tools in a real-world project environment. Addressing the specific concerns of the software architect, the high-level language programmer, the network driver programmer, and the software test engineer this hands on approach helps you work smarter from the...

Designing High-Performance Networking Applications

For software architects and engineers at networking companies, this book explains the framework for developing data plane applications for the Intel® IXP2XXX product line of network processors. From comprehensive descriptions of applications in various target market segments, you learn effective ways to employ the Intel IXP2XXX product line of network processors in your design for...

Building a Simple Network, 2nd Edition

This practical guide to peer-to-peer networking tells you how to connect a group of computers together in a home or small office, using standard Ethernet or wireless Ethernet products.

With this book as your guide, you can install, set up, and use a network of computers running Windows* XP, Windows* 2000, Windows* Me, Windows* 98, and Windows* 95. You can share drives and printers...

Designing Embedded Networking Applications

Written by senior Intel engineers who have been centrally involved in the architecture of the Intel® IXP4XX product line since its inception, this book helps developers get their designs into production quickly. The authors address the software engineer's frequently asked questions:

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Intel® Internet Exchange Architecture & Applications

The network processors included in Intel® IXA family offer developers unparalleled performance in a programmable engine. And now, engineers can prepare themselves to get the most out of their Intel® IXA-based designs by reading this comprehensive book focused on the newly introduced Intel IXP2400 and Intel IXP2800 network processors.

If you are writing network software or you...

Intel Press Books - Programming

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Building Intelligent Systems

Consumers are now demanding and expecting more from technology. Building intelligence into our devices is a promising way to satisfy this demand by providing more personalized experiences. In Building Intelligent Systems the authors investigate how computer vision, machine learning, and data mining can be used together to build smarter devices and systems. Additionally, they explore...

Change-Based Test Management

With the difficulties of today's economy, many companies are placing a renewed emphasis on reducing expenses. Unfortunately, software validation is often one of the first areas to feel the pressure of lower budgets.

With the ever-increasing complexity and speed of today's hardware, how can you continue to produce a high quality product while maintaining or even lowering your...

Break Away with Intel(R) Atom™ Processors: Architecture Migration Activities

Learning involves the acquisition of knowledge through the experiences of research, instruction, and practice. Each opportunity for experience increases the depth of understanding and mastering of the subject matter. This study guide can be the companion to the book “Break Away with Intel® Atom™ Processors: A Guide to Architecture Migration” or can be used in...

Programming with Intel® Wireless MMX™ Technology

Intel® Wireless MMX™ technology is the latest high-performance, low-power, seamless extension to the Intel XScale® microarchitecture. Intel Wireless MMX technology offers developers a powerful set of new instructions that enhance the multimedia capability of Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel® PCA) based mobile devices.

Programming with...

Quick Boot

Quick Boot is for those developers not familiar with Intel® Architecture in general who want to develop their own firmware to meet educational or commercial needs. Booting should be easy. While the open source community provides some raw code and materials, this book provides the guidance and explanations on how to create, craft, and hone them into a finished product. The...

UPnP Design by Example

Networked devices should be as easy for consumers to set up as stereo equipment-when you plug it in and turn it on, it "just works". Universal Plug and Play technology can make this happen. This book is primarily a resource for software developers who are implementing UPnP technology in their products. It also provides a great introduction for those who are new to the technology....

Break Away with Intel Atom Processors: A Guide to Architecture Migration

This invaluable book provides insight into architecture migration discussing real world software migration issues and highlighting them with case studies. The book covers pertinent topics that are at the heart of the software migration, such as techniques to port code originally written for other processor architectures, as well as capturing the benefits of Intel® Atom™ platform...

Programming with Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology

Take full advantage of 64-bit computing on IA-32 processors.

Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel® EM64T) brings 64-bit processing capabilities to desktops, servers, and workstations while ensuring full compatibility with current 32-bit operating systems and applications. Intel EM64T improves performance by allowing the system to address more than 4 gigabytes of...

Optimizing Applications for Multi-Core Processors

Whether you are developing a Windows*, Linux*, or Mac OS* application for a laptop, desktop, or server, the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives(IPP) will help you obtain the highest application performance and get the most out of todays multi–core processors.

Optimizing Applications for Multi-Core Processors is the second edition of the successful Intel...

Programming with Hyper-Threading Technology

Programming with Hyper-Threading Technology by Richard Gerber and Andrew Binstock helps software developers write high-performance multithreaded code while avoiding the common parallel programming issues that usually plague threaded programs.

This book highlights how software developers can use Hyper-Threading Technology to maximize processor throughput, efficiency, and...

The Software Optimization Cookbook, Second Edition

Get the most out of Intel IA-32 platforms with Intel® EM64T and multi-core processing.

The Software Optimization Cookbook, Second Edition, provides updated recipes for high-performance applications on Intel platforms. Through simple explanations and examples, four Intel experts show you how to address performance issues with algorithms, memory access, branch prediction,...

Itanium® Architecture for Software Developers

This unique description of the Intel® Itanium® application architecture helps the software development community to use the power of Intel's new line of 64-bit processors. The book provides:

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Multi-Core Programming

Discover programming techniques for Intel multi-core architecture and Hyper-Threading Technology

Software developers can no longer rely on increasing clock speeds alone to speed up single-threaded applications; instead, to gain a competitive advantage, developers must learn how to properly design their applications to run in a threaded environment. Multi-core architectures have a...

Scientific Computing on Itanium®-based Systems

Written for professionals who need to write, port, or maintain reliable, accurate, and efficient numerical software for the Itanium® architecture, Scientific Computing on Itanium®-based Systems shows you how to construct key numerical infrastructure and application programs.

This book describes the crucial techniques required for stability and reliability in developing...

The Software Vectorization Handbook

The growing popularity of multimedia extensions has renewed the interest in vectorizing compilers. The Software Vectorization Handbook provides a detailed overview of compiler optimizations that convert sequential code into a form that best exploits multimedia extensions.

This book is written for compiler engineers and programmers of scientific, engineering, and multimedia...

Programming Itanium®-based Systems

This is the first general programming book for software application developers targeting the Itanium® processor family.

Programming Itanium-based Systems will help you to harness the power of Intel's new line of very long instruction word (VLIW) processors by providing:

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VTune™ Performance Analyzer Essentials

A real challenge in modern software environments is the ability to properly identify performance bottlenecks. The Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer helps locate and remove software performance bottlenecks by collecting, analyzing, and displaying performance data from the system-wide level down to the source level.

VTune Performance Analyzer Essentials is written...

Harnessing the UEFI Shell

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Shell is designed for programmers who are writing automation process software for computer-based equipment. Traditionally this software was based on various DOS family operating systems that were popular during the 1980s. While the processes may vary from hardware validation to software testing to manufacturing, the basics of automation are the...

Intel Press Books - Strategic Technologies

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Making the Product Development FrameWORK Making the Product Development FrameWORK chronicles the implementation of a product life cycle (PLC) from the mid-nineties though 2010 in the product development environment. The Intel experience is the basis for the story, but not the point. This story is about how a PLC can be implemented and evolved and is told anecdotally by the people on the frontlines who actually develop...	Peer-to-Peer Computing This insider's account of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Computing takes you from past experimental projects to the present resurgence, and looks into its future as a computing model for businesses and consumers on the Internet. Whether you are an application developer, an IT professional, or an end user, this book will help you discover what the P2P buzz is all about. Included are some early...
A Vision for Platform Autonomy A Vision for Platform Autonomy A Vision for Platform Autonomy provides the holistic overview and the solution to the platform autonomics related to power, thermal, RAS, locality, and resource monitoring. In addition to providing the theoretical basis of autonomics features, this book introduces the current state of the art in Intel® platforms. It covers...	Audio in the 21st Century Major changes have recently evolved in the field of audio. For example, the MP3 format has become widely popular and has moved from the realm of technophiles into the general consumer market. Digital formats such as MP3 have radically changed the nature of audio, making possible file sharing, increased flexibility and mobility, as well as raising content protection concerns. ...
SCREEN FUTURE Screen Future is a technical book about people, technology, and the economics that are shaping and the evolution of entertainment. Blending social and computer sciences, the book provides a vision for what happens after convergence and what we need to do to get there. Screen Future explores the gargantuan unanswered questions lurking in the shadows of this...	Video in the 21st Century Filled with useful video information, this book benefits hardware and software designers who create digital multimedia products. In the past few years, video technology has made huge advancements. Since the DVD format was launched, it has gained wide consumer acceptance. HDTV has gone from specification to reality, with broadcasts now occurring daily throughout the U.S. The IEEE1394/...
Applied Virtualization Technology Server and desktop virtualization is one of the more significant technologies to impact computing in the last few years, promising the benefits of infrastructure consolidation, lower costs, increased security, ease of management, and greater employee productivity. Using virtualization technology, one computer system can operate as multiple "virtual" systems. The convergence...

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Building Trust, Visibility and Control in the Datacenter

In “Building Trust, Visibility and Control in the Datacenter: Implementing Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Servers” the authors describe how to use an exciting new security technology to form the basis of innovations in secure computing, especially in cloud computing by providing benefits to cloud service providers and clients. The roles and...

Migrating the Small Business to the Cloud

Businesses that manage migration to the cloud will receive huge rewards in productivity and lower total cost of ownership, than those that choose to ignore it. The challenge for IT professionals is to manage migration using solutions that provide the best on-premise and off-premise equipment. The driving force behind cloud migration is efficient utilization of cloud resources to reduce the...

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