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      NVIDIA Vera SMT Performance Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:54

    Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA's Spatial Multithreading "SMT" implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of the areas I was most eager to test was looking at Vera's Spatial Multithreading. Here is a first look at the impact of NVIDIA Vera SMT.
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      AMD PerfOpt To Deliver New Performance Optimization For AMD iGPUs With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:26

    Those using AMD integrated graphics on Linux such as the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo hardware will be able to enjoy even better performance with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel...
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      openSUSE Leap 16.1 RC Released With New Immutable Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    The release candidate phase has begun for the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16.1 in-step with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1. Most notable with the openSUSE Leap 16.1 is the introduction of its new immutable mode...
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      Linux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today's virtualized world...
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      Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Brings UI Improvements, Automatic Audio Ducking

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:44

    Following the earlier Shotcut 26.9 beta at the beginning of September, the open-source developers behind the open-source non-linear video editor are out with the Shotcut 26.9 stable release...
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      Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...
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      Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Budgie 10.10.3 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source desktop...
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      Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
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      Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today's CXL world for adding additional system memory...