Intel and Facebook will promote the development of open-source
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Social networking site Facebook recently and Intel signed a cooperation agreement. Facebook plans to deploy thousands of next year based on the Intel ® Xeon ® processor-based servers, in order to meet its increasingly rich multimedia applications (including video, music, pictures, etc.) the computing needs, to achieve the purpose of expansion.
The terms of the agreement include, Facebook will be based on Intel ® Xeon ® 5400 processor-based servers, while Intel to provide technical assessment, testing and benchmarks based on Intel ® structure optimization software. Intel said it would address the computing needs Facebook, through a variety of chipsets and server platforms to assess the profile, providing optimal energy efficiency performance of the processor and software engineering for Excellence.
Facebook-related official said in July has already begun based on different processor-based servers for testing, chose the Intel ® Xeon ® 5400 series of server processors. Commissioner responsible person of the Department has always been ok
Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group vice president and general manager of platform business server Kirk Skaugen also said,
Intel will join hands with Facebook Facebook assessment of the Intel ® software on a server framework to achieve optimal performance of a number of ways. Not only that, in view of the majority of Facebook applications are constructed using open-source, he believes that the cooperation of a number of lessons learned will help promote the development of open-source community, will use a similar framework for the establishment of the site to help .