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Samba 4.16 Released For Improving Windows File/Print Server Interoperability

Phoronix - Tue, 03/22/2022 - 01:22
Samba 4.16 is out as the newest feature release for this leading SMB / CIFS implementation for improving Windows file/print interoperability with Linux-based systems...

AMD EPYC 7773X "Milan-X" Benchmarks Show Very Strong HPC Performance Upgrade

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 21:00
While Milan-X was announced back in November, today is the day of the Milan-X embargo lift for reviewing these new processors and sharing more about these high-end server processors focused on delivering even greater performance for high performance computing (HPC) workloads. In this review is a look at the performance of the AMD EPYC 7773X series against other AMD EPYC parts and the Intel Xeon Scalable competition under Linux.

AMD Milan-X Upgrade In The Cloud Makes Microsoft Azure HBv3 Very Compelling For HPC

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 21:00
Today the AMD EPYC 7003 Milan-X processors are officially shipping. See my AMD EPYC 7773X Linux review for more details and plenty of benchmarks. The 768MB of L3 cache per CPU won't be of benefit to all workloads, just as the forthcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D is focused on gaming. Aside from the dozens of benchmarks covered in my review, if you are still left wondering about whether other workloads stand to benefit from Milan-X, thankfully it's easy to already test drive it in the cloud with Microsoft Azure. Here are some Microsoft Azure HBv3 benchmarks looking at the Milan-X uplift in the cloud.

Intel Adds A Tiny OpenCL Compiler To Mesa 22.1 For Their Vulkan Ray-Tracing Code

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 20:24
Intel has added a little OpenCL C compiler binary to Mesa 22.1 today in the latest development code-base...

Linux 5.18 Scheduler Updates Improve NUMA Balancing For AMD EPYC Servers

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 19:21
Ingo Molnar has begun sending out the pull requests for the code he oversees in the kernel for the newly-opened Linux 5.18 merge window. The scheduler updates this cycle are rather notable especially for AMD Linux server users...

TornadoVM 0.13 Released For Java OpenJDK/GraalVM Offloading To GPUs, FPGAs & More

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 18:48
TornadoVM continues advancing as the open-source plug-in to OpenJDK and GraalVM that allows Java programs to run on heterogeneous hardware from GPUs to FPGAs and other targets...

Mesa's CPU-Based Software Vulkan Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 17:43
The recent work by Mike Blumenkrantz on getting Lavapipe to advertise Vulkan 1.3 has successfully landed within Mesa 22.1...

FSCRYPT Adding Direct I/O Support For Encrypted Files In Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 17:28
It's been a while since having any shiny new features to talk about for FSCRYPT, the Linux kernel's file-system encryption framework that is used by the likes of EXT4 and F2FS. With Linux 5.18 that changes with FSCRYPT adding direct I/O support...

How to Install WordPress on RHEL 8 with Nginx

Tecmint - Mon, 03/21/2022 - 15:57
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