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Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 Ice Lake Linux Performance vs. AMD EPYC Milan, Cascade Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 05/13/2021 - 06:42
Last month Intel launched their 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" processors for these 10nm server processors and SKUs up to 40 cores while boasting around a 20% IPC improvement overall and big reported improvements for AI workloads and more. Recently we received an Intel Ice Lake reference server with the dual Xeon Platinum 8380 processors so we can carry out our own performance tests. In this initial article is our first look at the Xeon Platinum 8380 Linux support in general and a number of performance benchmarks.

AMD Publishes Initial Open-Source Linux Driver Code For "Beige Goby"

Phoronix - Thu, 05/13/2021 - 02:04
AMD has published initial open-source Linux graphics driver code for a new GPU dubbed Beige Goby...

AMI Is Getting Involved With Open-Source Firmware Development

Phoronix - Thu, 05/13/2021 - 01:57
Well known BIOS provider AMI is getting in on the open-source system firmware game around OpenBMC and related projects...

Core Scheduling Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 5.14 To Avoid Disabling SMT/HT

Phoronix - Wed, 05/12/2021 - 22:21
It looks like the years-long effort around CPU core scheduling that's been worked on by multiple vendors in light of CPU security vulnerabilities threatening SMT/HT security will see mainline later this summer with Linux 5.14...

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