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AMD Prepping PKI Accelerator Driver "AMDPK" For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 01:52
Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was mainlined just with the Linux 6.14 kernel, AMD Linux engineers are now working on "AMDPK" as a new accelerator driver for their upcoming PKI Accelerator engines...

AMD To Detail ROCm Open-Source Software Progress In June

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:02
AMD announced today they will be hosting a virtual "Advancing AI 2025" event in mid-June where they will talk about their next-gen AMD Instinct accelerators while of much interest to many Phoronix readers is an update on the ROCm open-source software...

OpenSSH 10.0 Released To Better Fend Off Attacks By Quantum Computers

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 21:55
OpenSSH 10.0 is now available for this widely-used SSH client/server implementation. There are a number of changes to find with OpenSSH 10.0 including better protections against possible attacks by future quantum computers...

Benchmarks: Google Cloud's New C4D VMs Deliver Remarkable Performance With AMD EPYC Turin

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 20:00
As part of the announcements coming out today from Google Cloud Next 2025, the embargo has now lifted on the new Google Cloud C4D VMs. Powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, the new C4D instances deliver incredibly high performance and can scale up to 384 vCPUs with 3TB of RAM. For web servers, databases, CPU-based machine learning, and other workloads, the new Google C4D instances deliver incredible uplift compared to the prior-gen C3D instances. Here are some of the first public, independent benchmarks of Google's new C4D family.

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