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      Intel Granite Rapids WS Core Scaling Performance With The Xeon 678X

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:20

    Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon 678X when limited to 6 cores, 12 cores, 24 cores, 48 cores, and then the 48 cores + HT default configuration.
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      Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released After Two Years, BeOS-Inspired Project Turns 25 Next Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:40

    Haiku R1 Beta 5 came out in September 2026 while out today is the long-awaited sixth beta for this open-source operating system inspired by BeOS. This beta release also comes one week ahead of the project's 25th anniversary...
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      AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:49

    AMD's compiler team is proposing a new LLVM Clang compiler option, -fenable-readonly-thp for implementing instruction Transparent Huge Pages "iTHP" at compile and link-time. With -fenable-readonly-thp, they are finding more performance out of SPEC CPU, Geekbench, and other workloads from the arranging of 2MB segment alignment at link time and allowing the executable text range can be promoted to huge pages...
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      Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:13

    Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon. Ultimately, after Red Hat engineers got involved, was found to be a bug within the Intel P-State kernel driver exhibited by Tuned-PPD. The latest Linux kernel already has a fix in place and will be back-ported to Fedora 44...
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      Intel Introduces New "BFF" Linux Driver To Deal With Aging Silicon & Stuck Bits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:56

    Intel is preparing to introduce a new Linux driver named "BFF" for dealing with aging processor silicon where bits may become stuck over time...
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      Armbian 26.8 Released With Installer Rewrite, UEFI ISO Images

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:41

    Armbian as the Debian/Ubuntu-derived distribution that provides an optimized platform for ARM and RISC-V single board computers is out today with a major update...
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      Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:31

    The Linux kernel's FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...
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      LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:30

    LibreOffice 26.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature update to this leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Office...
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      AMD Introduces New "GFX1250-STRICT" GPU Target In LLVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:22

    The AMD GFX1250 IP is what's used by the new Instinct MI450 series accelerators. That's been around within the Linux kernel, AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end, and related codebases the past year. Interestingly merged yesterday is a new "gfx1250-strict" target...