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SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder

Phoronix - Fri, 08/18/2023 - 04:55
The SUSE organization has changed hands many times over the years... From being its own independent company to the notable acquisition by Novell two decades ago. Over the past decade SUSE has changed hands between Attachmate, Micro Focus, EQT Partners, and then went public back in 2021 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Now two years later it is being taken private...

AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "GFX 11.5"

Phoronix - Fri, 08/18/2023 - 02:27
A few minutes ago AMD sent out the very first open-source Linux kernel graphics driver patches for enabling the "GFX 11.5" graphics engine...

AMD Isn't Done Yet Optimizing The Mesa RadeonSI Driver For Workstation OpenGL

Phoronix - Fri, 08/18/2023 - 01:03
While over the past several years AMD landed numerous significant improvements to their RadeonSI driver for benefiting OpenGL workstation use-cases, that quest isn't yet over and more optimizations continue to be pursued. There are additional optimizations on the horizon for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for benefiting OpenGL on Linux workstations...

Amazon's New EC2 M7a AMD EPYC "Genoa" Instances Deliver Leading Performance In The AWS Cloud

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 23:26
While back in November was when AWS originally announced new EC2 instances powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC "Genoa" processors, only this week did they bring their M7a general purpose instances to a general availability state where anyone can access them. Being very impressed with 4th Gen EPYC bare metal as well as with Azure's HPC cloud, I fired up some benchmarks of the new Genoa-powered EC2 M7a instance compared to the new M7i instances powered by Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" as well as showing how the competition is to Amazon's in-house Graviton ARM-based server processors.

Intel Publishes PCIe Bandwidth Controller Linux Driver To Prevent Thermal Issues

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 21:38
Intel engineer Ilpo Järvinen posted a set of Linux kernel driver patches to introduce a new "bwctrl" PCI Express Bandwidth Controller driver and associated PCIe cooling driver to allow for limiting the PCIe link speed in the event of any system thermal issues...

Intel QAT Adapted For Zstd To Provide Big Performance/Efficiency Wins

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 19:45
While Intel has maintained the QATzip open-source compression library for demonstrating data compression using QuickAssist Technology (QAT) with DEFLATE/LZ4/LZ4s, Intel has also been working on QAT'ed Zstd for achieving some sizable victories in performance and power efficiency...

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