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How to Use dpkg, apt, aptitude, synaptic, and tasksel in Debian

Tecmint - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 13:30
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Debian offers several tools for managing software packages, each serving a specific purpose in the package management ecosystem, and understanding

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AMD Contributes BFloat16 Support To LLVM's SPIR-V Target

Phoronix - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 09:32
AMD software engineers continue making interesting contributions to the LLVM compiler stack around SPIR-V as the IR used by Vulkan and other Khronos APIs...

Benchmarking The AMD EPYC 9V64H: Azure HBv5's Custom AMD CPU With HBM3

Phoronix - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 03:00
Nearly one year ago Microsoft announced the HBv5 virtual machines powered by a custom-designed AMD 4th Gen EPYC processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM3). Finally today the Azure HBv5 series is reaching general availability for those with memory-intensive HPC applications and other workloads. Microsoft kindly provided Phoronix with HBv5 access in advance to begin testing these new VMs with the AMD EPYC 9V64H CPUs featuring HBM memory, so here are some of the first independent benchmarks of these exciting processors powering Azure's new HPC VM instances.

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