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3 Reasons to choose RHEL for SAP Solutions on Alibaba Cloud

Red Hat News - Thu, 06/17/2021 - 12:00

Alibaba Cloud is an important partner for Red Hat and the choice of public cloud for many of our customers in the Asia Pacific region. For those customers looking to modernize and migrate SAP workloads to SAP S/4HANA we can offer several reasons to consider RHEL for SAP Solutions in the Alibaba cloud.

Intel Speed Select Driver Issue Was Hurting Performance In Some HPC Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 06/17/2021 - 12:00
Intel's Speed Select Technology introduced since Cascade Lake for providing more granular power/performance controls was done in the name of performance but it turns out an ISST Linux driver inefficiency could lead to a 10%+ performance hit for some HPC benchmarks...

Lenovo To Support Configuring ThinkPad BIOS From Within Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 06/17/2021 - 06:35
In conjunction with supported Lenovo systems, a new "Think-LMI" driver is on its way to the mainline Linux kernel for allowing some BIOS/firmware settings to be accessed and configured within Linux...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Hits Another "Massively Improved Performance" Milestone

Phoronix - Thu, 06/17/2021 - 04:29
The Zink component to Mesa that provides a generic OpenGL implementation built atop the Vulkan API recently hit another "massively improved performance" milestone by Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz...

Blender 3.0 Likely Delayed 2 Months For Post-Lockdown Breather, Cycles X Might Land

Phoronix - Thu, 06/17/2021 - 02:41
The wildly successful Blender 3D open-source modeling software has been working hard towards its Blender 3.0 release but will likely now be proactively delayed to allow developers more time to relax with COVID-19 lockdowns/restrictions loosening, the possibility of developer meetups pre-3.0, and letting more changes flow into this big feature release...

Wasmer 2.0 Released With Significantly Faster Runtime Performance, Quicker Deserialization

Phoronix - Thu, 06/17/2021 - 01:49
Going along with a number of other recent WebAssembly interpreter/run-time releases, Wasmer 2.0 has been released as this popular WebAssembly WASI and EmScripten run-time...

AMD EPYC 7343 / EPYC 7443 Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 06/16/2021 - 20:00
Since the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" series launch back in March we have carried out many benchmarks with their flagship processors like the EPYC 7763 and 7713 processors and some of the frequency optimized SKUs, but what about the performance lower down the product stack? Up for benchmarking today is a look at the AMD EPYC 7343 and 7743 processors in 1P and 2P configurations against other AMD EPYC Milan processors as well as Intel's Xeon Platinum 8380 Ice Lake processors.

Fedora Cloud 35 Approved To Use Btrfs By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 06/16/2021 - 18:00
Last month plans were published for Fedora Cloud 35 to use the Btrfs file-system by default, similar to Fedora Workstation using Btrfs by default for several releases. That plan has now been signed off on by FESCo allowing for this change to happen...

SUSE Linux Enterprise / openSUSE Leap Pursuing x86_64-v2 Optimized Libraries

Phoronix - Wed, 06/16/2021 - 17:11
In addition to the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed looking at HWCAPS / x86-64 feature levels for being able to provide greater out-of-the-box performance by selectively loading more tuned libraries depending upon the CPU in use, SUSE Linux Enterprise / openSUSE Leap are also looking at offering similar functionality that may turn up in time for the next point release / service pack...

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