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      AMD EPYC 7773X "Milan-X" Performance & Power Nearly Four Years Later

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:20

    Nearly four years have passed since AMD launched their EPYC Milan-X processors with 3D V-Cache. When recently rearranging some servers in the lab and realizing the four year anniversary was coming up in March, curiosity got the best of me in wondering where the Linux performance and energy efficiency on Milan-X is now with the latest Linux software stack compared to the numbers when Milan-X launched back in March 2022.
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      Intel Updates Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux With Better NUMA Balancing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:38

    Intel engineer Tim Chen has sent out a second version of the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling patches for the Linux kernel to enhance the CPU performance of modern processors sporting multiple cache domains...
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      Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:03

    Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other requirements in place with hypervisors like CrosVM and QEMU. The Venus driver now supports Vulkan's mesh shader capabilities and in turn advances the DXVK-Proton support for Linux gaming within VMs...
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      Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:15

    On top of enabling Xe3P graphics for Nova Lake and Crescent Island plus other changes like CASF adaptive sharpening for Lunar Lake and newer, another set of Intel kernel graphics driver updates were merged overnight as a big win for the open-source Intel graphics stack on Linux...
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      Graviton5 Announced With Up To 192 Cores Per Chip, 5x Larger Cache

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 23:44

    Amazon AWS today announced Graviton5 as their newest-generation ARM64 server processor for their EC2 cloud. Graviton5 is being promoted as offering 25% higher performance over existing Graviton4 processors...
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      NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New "CUDA Tile" Programming Model

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 22:44

    NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is "the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago." The most notable addition with the CUDA 13.1 release is CUDA Tile as a new tile-based programming model...
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      Linux 6.19 Brings Temperature Monitoring For The Steam Deck APU, Apple Silicon SMC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 21:33

    The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support...
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      Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 18:48

    The out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system is ready with its reconcile feature, which previously was known as "rebalance_v2", and what lead developer Kent Overstreet calls the biggest feature to this copy-on-write file-system in the last two years...
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      FreeBSD 15.0 Benchmarks Versus FreeBSD 14.3 On AMD EPYC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 17:20

    This week brought the official release of FreeBSD 15.0 as the latest major update to this BSD operating system. In being eager to test out this new FreeBSD release, for this first round of FreeBSD 15.0 benchmarking is seeing how it compares to the former FreeBSD 14.3 release on a Supermicro + AMD EPYC Turin server.