The jemalloc memory allocator "malloc" implementation has been popular for HPC and server use down to desktop use in apps like Firefox. Jemalloc has proven over the years to be effective on delivering better performance and scalability while enjoying lower memory usage and less fragmentation than alternative malloc implementations. Meta recently announced that they are renewing their investment into jemalloc...
An interesting Linux detail from today's NVIDIA GTC 2026 kickoff is that Canonical will be integrating NVIDIA's DOCA-OFED software framework into the Ubuntu Linux archive for leveraging the high-speed networking stack for HPC and AI...
As organizations scale generative AI (gen AI) across business units, a familiar tension appears—bigger models can often deliver better results, but they also require significantly more compute, cost, and operational complexity. This creates a production paradox— while enterprises want higher-quality reasoning, domain specialization, and agentic autonomy, they struggle to deploy monolithic trillion-parameter models that run continuously across clusters.As a result, the industry is shifting strategies, moving from single, massive models toward more efficient architectures. One of those techn
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.3 is now generally available with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio to 1.28 and Kiali to 2.22, and is supported on OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 and above. While this release includes many updates, it also sets the stage for the next generation of service mesh features, including post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) encryption, AI enablement, and support for the inclusion of external virtual machines (VMs) with service mesh.Updates in
The decision to migrate from a familiar virtualization provider to a modern platform is significant. For many organizations, the biggest hurdle isn't necessarily the migration itself, but the uncertainty that precedes it. You need to know exactly what the migration process looks like, what risk is involved, which workloads are ready, and more before you commit your resources.The OpenShift migration advisor is a no-cost, self-service tool designed to evaluate the migration-readiness of your VMware workloads prior to commitment. By discovering your vCenter environment, the advisor generates an a
A bit of time has passed since having any exciting performance improvements to report on within the GNU C Library "glibc" but that changed today with another nice x86_64 optimization for modern CPUs...
FFmpeg 8.1 is out today as the newest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia library...
The Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" to allow for custom CPU scheduling policies as BPF programs continues enabling new functionality. Queued up in the sched_ext development code ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 cycle is the new SCX_ENQ_IMMED capability for enabling tighter control over when tasks land on a CPU...
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