"Intel's IPEAK storage toolkit provides the most valuable storage
traffic analysis tool we have. As a key IHV providing adapter
RAID solutions to the industry, we are using the toolkit to help
optimize adapter cache management parameters and algorithms. The
complete and in-depth analysis capability provided by the Intel
IPEAK storage toolkit enables us to quickly optimize product performance
for different application workloads and environments."
Peter Beckett, Technical Marketing Manager, Adaptec Inc.
"Intel's IPEAK tools play a key role in performance tuning of
Maxtor's products, including our award-winning DiamondMax family
of drives. Other industry standard benchmarks tell us how fast
our drives are, Intel's IPEAK tools tells us why we get specific
results, allowing us to improve our performance."
David Skinner, Sr. Director Interface Firmware Engineering,
Maxtor Corporation
"Intel's IPEAK storage toolkit has been a valuable analysis tool
often uncovering performance issues missed by traditional testing
methods. It is a powerful resource for achieving top performance
across the entire Quantum product line, from server to desktop
storage solutions."
Ted Deffenbaugh, Director of Technology Management, Quantum
Corporation
"Ultimately we meet computer system performance goals by optimizing
performance of interacting storage subsystem components. Intel's
IPEAK Storage allows us to take a microscope to many aspects of
storage component performance. This new data helps us understand
what's really going on -- so we're not wasting time on conjecture.
We've used the Intel IPEAK tools to characterize and select disk
drives, to compare drivers, and to understand the performance
impact of host adapter features."
Charles Gimarc, Ph.D. Performance Analyst, Symbios, Inc.
"Intel IPEAK provides quantitative performance data which is
invaluable in designing and analyzing high performance 3-D acceleration
hardware and software."
Jim Washburn, HW/SW Project Manager for 2D/3-D graphics, Alliance
Semiconductor Corp.
"Intel's IPEAK has been a valuable tool for Trident Microsystems
by providing an independent means to evaluate the quality and
performance of our desktop and mobile 3-D accelerators We are
very pleased that Intel is helping the industry to maximize performance
through such a useful tool as Intel's IPEAK."
Dr. Yong Yao, Vice President of Strategic Marketing and General
Manager,Trident Microsystems, Inc.
"We are racing to deliver a new 3-D graphics technology that
is going to redefine graphics performance in the PC market. Intel's
IPEAK in-depth analysis tools help us effectively analyze 3-D
graphics application and system performance, achieve optimum performance
levels and speed the introduction of our technology to the market."
Jay Duluk, Chief Technology Officer, Raycer Graphics
"Intel's IPEAK Graphics Performance Toolkit is the most useful
performance analysis tool I've seen in years. The toolkit's ability
to identify the areas that are key to performance is invaluable
for the design of high-performance, multi-functional 3-D graphics
products."
Jim Peterson, Chief Technology Officer, Rendition
"Intel's IPEAK GPT (Graphics Performance Toolkit) has truly become
an essential tool for Mitsubishi's driver software development
team. Our engineers love its intuitive GUI and presentation capabilities,
and its ease of use tremendously helps tune the performance of
DirectX on our 3DPro accelerator chipset. To maintain 3DPro's
position as the highest performing chipset for the NT platform
we need to be able to quickly identify where we should concentrate
our performance improvement efforts. Intel IPEAK enables that
luxury. The ability to analyze application scene workload and
3-D functions coverage helps us understand the demands of 3-D
applications."
Fabio Pettinati, Director of Engineering, Mitsubishi Electronics
America Inc.
"Intel's IPEAK has provided us with an invaluable insight into
how to optimize our PC products. It has helped in both driver
and chip development as well as allowing us to better understand
the different tradeoffs to make when evolving technology from
PCI- to AGP- based systems."
John Metcalfe, Program Manager, Videologic Limited
"For early evaluation of AGP, there are very few software tools
available. The Intel Baseline AGP System Evaluation Suite (IBASES)
outperforms the other tools by actually delivering the capability
to engage both AGP 1X and 2X while producing measurable performance
feedback to evaluate the graphics controller's performance."
Jennie Grosslight, Demand Generation Engineer, Hewlett Packard
Company
"Rather than wasting time chasing down development problems,
the Intel IPEAK Graphics Performance Toolkit allows our team to
better spend that time fixing them. It is a valuable, time- and
money-saving resource."
Charles Bellfield, Product Marketing Manager, Multimedia Strategic
Business Unit, NEC Electronics
"The Intel IPEAK Graphics Performance Toolkit makes great strides
in optimizing system performance which helps us to continue our
leadership in 3-D graphics performance."
Saul Altabet, Director of Strategic Marketing, 3Dfx Interactive,
Inc.
"Performance optimizations come about as a result of having a
good understanding of various contributing factors through evaluation
and analysis. Intel's IPEAK Graphics performance toolkit catalyzes
the above process by providing an interactive environment and
in-depth analysis capabilities. This toolkit will be extremely
helpful in allowing vendors of high performance graphics solutions,
such as Matrox, to further optimize display drivers and provide
exceptional 2D and 3-D performance."
Kamran Ahmed, Consumer Graphics Product Manager, Matrox Graphics
Inc.
"AGP is a new technology. A toolkit such as IBASES allows both
IHVs and ISVs to develop compelling AGP products thereby allowing
this technology to mature very quickly and become widely accepted.
As a key IHV providing high performance AGP graphics solutions
to the industry, Matrox considers IBASES an important tool in
exploiting the full capabilities of AGP."
Kamran Ahmed, Consumer Graphics Product Manager, Matrox Graphics
Inc.
The Intel IPEAK Graphics Performance Toolkit is the tool ATI
always wanted to write but never had the time to. It is invaluable
in helping us build better drivers. Intel has performed a service
to the entire industry by making it available to everyone."
Henry Quan, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, ATI Technologies
Inc
"Intel IPEAK is an indispensable addition to Intel's world-beating
optimization tools. Rebellion uses Intel IPEAK to optimize all
our 3-D games."
Chris Kingsley, Technical Director, Rebellion
"3Dlabs processors are designed to balance the entire graphics
pipeline for optimal system performance. Intel IPEAK is a unique
and valuable tool that helps us in that goal as it exposes the
complex parallelism between the CPU and a sophisticated graphics
processor. Intel IPEAK is a critical element of 3Dlabs' architecture
tool kit."
Heather Savory - Vice President Hardware Engineering, 3Dlabs
