Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Intel, the Cloud and Makers”.
Dc denison here at makercon and i’m with deborah goldfarb from intel, welcome thanks for having me so here you are at a hardware conference. Why are you talking about the cloud so we’re talking about a lot of things? The cloud is one aspect of what we’re: what we’re trying to focus on. We look at cloud as an enabling platform that provides um access to broader ranges of people who might not have the skills to use i’m most focused on advanced computing, so it wouldn’t have the skills to use advanced computing, so the maker population there are population of Innovators right and uh, you know we provide advanced tools, computing tools to do simulation and modeling rapid prototyping, advanced engineering, design to lots and lots of people around the world. But you know the folks here: don’t have access to that because it requires high skills. It’S fairly costly and not as accessible as it should be so by sort of the intersection of these two forces enables all these people uh in this amazing community to have access to the most advanced tools available for them to do the jobs they want to get Done i should say that um the reason you’re here and is that intel has released this white paper. That’S really an interesting uh report and you actually just gave a scintillating talk on the topic of packed crowd and uh. You know it really was was, i think, got a lot of people’s interest that here they are dealing with.
You know circuit boards, but really they can be opened up. You know by their kind of access to the cloud exactly so you know people tend to think that if something is a simple device, it doesn’t need advanced modeling to make it a good device which is which is not true. So yes, so number one.
We did a piece of research which was a great piece of research to understand how makers make and if we, you know how makers utilize more advanced technology, like you know, super computing, high performance computing, technical computing, where you’re able to uh do uh, digital rendering and Analysis of physical, physical prototypes, you want to understand how that might be introduced into their workflows and make their making a lot better and easier, faster, better, cheaper is the way we think about about it and enable them to collaborate. You know much uh better with their peer groups and their partners wherever they are in this distributed kind of collaboration network. So we did this piece of research. It was very successful. We learned a lot of stuff um and what we learned is that people, the maker community, really wants more advanced tooling to do the work they want.
You know that they’re trying to get done so from an intel standpoint. It gives us an opportunity to better serve them by understanding their needs and requirements um and give them what they need over time. So it was a really great partnership, uh with the community as well as um. You know make media who helped us actually execute. The study yeah, i think the white paper really made the point about the white, the um collaboration uh in addition to storage but uh. My last question: where do you see this going? Uh? Oh, i think it’s you know, i think so a number of things are clear from the study one was there is a real need for this kind of capability, uh advanced computing in the cloud to support this community. So i think next steps is to go. Try a bunch of stuff in the market. I think we need to figure out. You know, build a prototype and say how does this work? What what does it need? What’S the infrastructure requirements and then see where it goes from there, so we’re pretty excited about uh? Being a key com, you know key asset to this community going forward all right great well. Thank you thanks very, very much. .