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While the AMD EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" processor is impressive for having 128 physical Zen 4C cores, it also has Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) to provide for 256 threads per socket. Meanwhile with Ampere Altra Max and AmpereOne there is no SMT and it's likely Intel's upcoming Sierra Forest will also lack SMT (Hyper Threading) given it's an E-core-only design. But that led to my curiosity over the SMT impact for Bergamo on power and performance when leveraging SMT for the 128-core flagship EPYC 9754. Today's Bergamo benchmarking is looking at SMT on and off for both 1P and 2P server configurations.

While Intel is well known -- and well regarded -- as being one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel as well as being a significant player in many other open-source projects with their countless open-source software contributions over the years, Arm is now trying to better promote their open-source support and open contributions...

Arm Talks Up Their Open-Source Contributions, Adding Support For ...  Phoronix

Embedded programming on Linux | All About Circuits  All About Circuits

Qt Creator 11 is out today as the Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment...

New P2PInfect worm malware targets Linux and Windows Redis servers  BleepingComputer

Kettle podcast: We discuss RHEL licensing, ChromeOS and more  The Register

RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux  The Register

Red Hat Steps In It Again, Passes On Security Fix Contributed by ...  WebProNews

Following a recent Intel Mesa driver improvement to yield ~10% better performance, another change is on the way that has the ability to boost the performance for at least one game by 12% and other games by smaller yields...

Intel Preparing Another Linux Vulkan Driver Optimization To Help ...  Phoronix

Slackware turns 30  The Register

Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking  The Register

There is a phenomenon where running a multi-threaded workload inside a virtual machine (VM) with Simultaneously Multi-Threading (SMT / Intel Hyper Threading) that a sibling thread could find itself busy while the CPU core is idle. A new Linux CFS patch series aims to make the scheduler better adapt to the QEMU topology...

Alibaba Eyes Linux CPU Scheduler Changes To Better Handle ...  Phoronix

For those on Linux running a multi-monitor setup with a mix of resolutions or screen sizes between the different displays, Google Chrome (and Chromium) will soon be able to better cope with this arrangement by allowing per-display scaling factors...

Following GCC recently adding new x86 instructions for Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, the LLVM 17 open-source compiler has now received similar treatment...

Top 10 Stories About Compute Engines, Linux of 2023 (So Far)  ITPro Today

Linux Administrator  IT-Online

New P2PInfect Worm Targeting Redis Servers on Linux and ...  The Hacker News