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Intel Xeon Max 9480/9468 Show Significant Uplift In HPC & AI Workloads With HBM2e

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 22:39
Today is a very fun and interesting round of benchmarking... Recently Supermicro sent over their Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR and Intel supplied the Xeon Max 9468 and Xeon Max 9480 for finally being able to benchmark Xeon Max processors, the Sapphire Rapids parts featuring 64GB of HBM2e memory. For this initial benchmarking article is a look at the Xeon Max 9468/9480 dual socket performance when running in HBM-only mode and HBM-caching mode for showing some of the workloads where Xeon Max can deliver significant uplift compared to when running in flat (1LM) mode without assigning anything to the HBM memory for seeing the impact when the specialized memory goes unused.

Linux 6.5 Brings WiFi & Bluetooth Support For The MIPS Creator CI20

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 21:47
Nearly a decade ago when there was more hope for the MIPS open-source ecosystem and the initial growth of lower-cost single board computers the MIPS Creator CI20 was launched by Imagination Tech. It wasn't too successful and MIPS development has since reached the end of the road, but finally with Linux 6.5 is the Bluetooth and WiFi on this MIPS single board computer going to finally be supported by the mainline kernel...

Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of Linux Systems

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 18:35
Well, here is something nifty being worked on by Oracle. Oracle engineers have been developing "bpftune" as a new always-on, automatic tuning of Linux systems -- in particular, the many different Linux kernel tunables available and this tuning system leverages the kernel's Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) observability features to carry out its work...

NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver, Xbox Rumble Support For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Wed, 06/28/2023 - 18:25
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window. Most notable is NVIDIA contributing a Linux kernel driver six years late for their SHIELD controller...

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