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Meta's Transparent Memory Offloading Saves Them 20~32% Of Memory Per Linux Server

Phoronix - Tue, 06/21/2022 - 06:15
Meta's engineering team today published an interesting blog post about Transparent Memory Offloading (TMO) as a new Linux kernel feature they developed that is already used in production on Facebook/Meta servers. Within Meta's data centers this TMO functionality is saving 20~32% memory per server across their millions of servers...

RHEL-Based AlmaLinux Announces "ALBS" Access For Its Public Build System

Phoronix - Tue, 06/21/2022 - 02:20
AlmaLinux today made public ALBS, the AlmaLinux Build System used to construct the recent releases of AlmaLinux 8.6 and AlmaLinux 9.0 across all supported architectures...

AMD PRO 5000 WX Series Coming To More System Integrators, DIY Market Later This Year

Phoronix - Mon, 06/20/2022 - 23:52
After announcing the Threadripper PRO 5000 WX series back in March and with Lenovo being their launch partner for these Zen 3 Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, AMD today shared an update on availability...

Amazon Graviton3 Compiler Tuning Benchmarks For The Arm Neoverse-V1 Cores

Phoronix - Mon, 06/20/2022 - 20:58
Stemming from my recent AWS Graviton3 benchmarks and looking at Graviton3 against Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC, a number of Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing some compiler tuning benchmarks for the Graviton3 around its Arm Neoverse-V1 cores with SVE support. Here are some benchmarks for those interested in the compiler tuning impact for this new high performance Arm cloud processor.

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