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Frequently Asked Questions – Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Red Hat News - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 08:00
Q: What is being announced on September 20, 2023? A: Red Hat OpenShift will be certified and supported on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for customer-managed installations running on OCI Compute virtual machines and bare metal instances as a Bring Your Own Subscription (BYOS). Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now certified to support workloads on OCI Compute bare metal instances and Oracle VMware Cloud Solution, in addition to the previously announced OCI Compute flexible virtual machines. RHEL image builder can now also be used to create gold images for OCI-based workl

Accelerated Encryption with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Red Hat News - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 08:00
Earlier this year, Red Hat engineering took a close look at how to accelerate compression within applications by using 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors that include Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT), which can accelerate both compression and encryption. Today we will examine the encryption capabilities and show how to achieve major performance improvements with leading load balancing applications. HAProxy and F5’s NGINX were tested running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. Setting up We started with a RHEL 9.2 installation on a system with an Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ p

Linux 6.6 Looks To Be Very Lucrative For AMD Server Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 02:10
As a continuation of last week's article looking at Linux 6.6 bringing some impressive gains for AMD EPYC Bergamo, over the past few days I've also tested Linux 6.5 stable and Linux 6.6 Git on Genoa and Genoa-X processors as well as Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" in looking at this next kernel version's performance. The Sapphire Rapids performance was largely flat while for an interesting class of workloads the Linux 6.6 performance drives the AMD EPYC server performance much higher.

Intel Innovation 2023 Kicks Off With Meteor Lake & Emerald Rapids Launch Date: 14 Dec

Phoronix - Tue, 09/19/2023 - 23:35
Intel is kicking off their Innovation 2023 conference in San Jose with many exciting announcements. Freed from embargo this morning is news around their upcoming mobile and server processors, lots of AI talk, Intel's continued software advancements to complement their hardware, and more...

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