Intel Distributed Infrastructure Software: Intel's microprocessor architectures will evolve rapidly to support the increasing requirements of tomorrow's applications. The processor and platform evolution, as theorized in Platform 2015, will utilize chip-level multiprocessing to offer dramatically improved general-purpose performance with favorable power and heat characteristics. Increasing parallelism demands new programming

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Driven by steady advances in microprocessor design and manufacturing technology, computing has had a profound impact on business and society, transforming business operations and enhancing a wide variety of human activities. Now the pace of innovation is accelerating. Over the next ten years, we believe breakthrough applications will emerge on a variety of front. Nearly one billion people are part of the global Internet community, and hundreds of millions more will be joining the global community. Devices are becoming smart and more proactive, and the line between communications and computation is fast disappearing. Ubiquitous connectivity is becoming a fact of daily life.

Application software is the bridge between human needs and hardware platforms. Spurred by increasing globalization, growing device intelligence and the explosion of digital data, the next decade’s applications will be much more computationally intensive than anything we’ve seen to date. An Intel’s Pradeep Dubey suggests, "The era of tera is coming quickly. This will be an age when people need teraflops (a trillion floating point operation per second) of computing power, terabits (a trillion bits per second of communications bandwidth) and terabytes (1,024 gigabytes) of data storage to handle the information all around them."

Intel’s microprocessor architectures will evolve rapidly to support the increasing requirements of tomorrow’s applications. The processor and platform evolution, as theorized in Platform 2015, will utilize chip-level multiprocessing to offer dramatically improved general-purpose performance with favorable power and heat characteristics. Future architectures will also incorporate rich and diverse computing and communications capabilities, advanced power management, special-purpose performance and adaptability, and sophisticated features for reliability, security and manageability.

There’s much work to be done to achieve the vision of Platform 2015, both on the hardware and software levels. Increasing parallelism demands new programming models, tools, libraries, and other software infrastructure so developers can translate Platform 2015’s performance and capabilities into transformative applications. As Intel advances its platform architectures, it will also do the accompanying work to empower tomorrow’s application developers to exploit its hardware. Intel hardware and software innovation, as well as outreach to innovative independent software vendors (ISV’s), will promote qualitatively new kinds of applications to enrich users’ lives.
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