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Microsoft Adding Azure "MANA" Driver To Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 08:32
Microsoft is preparing the Linux kernel for some yet-to-debut Azure network functionality...

ARM in the Datacenter - Virtualization Review

Google News - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 07:14
ARM in the Datacenter  Virtualization Review

KFence Memory Safety Error Checking Is Looking Good For Minimal Overhead On Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 04:16
Of the many new features coming with Linux 5.12 is KFence, short for the Kernel Electric Fence. KFence is a low-overhead memory safety error detector/validator for the kernel with lower expected overhead costs than say the Kernel Address Sanitizer. I just wrapped up some benchmarks looking out for any overhead impact of KFence on Linux 5.12 in its near-final state...

Google Deprecating RenderScript In Favor Of Vulkan Compute

Phoronix - Tue, 04/20/2021 - 01:59
Google announced today that with Android 12.0 they will be deprecating their RenderScript APIs. Moving forward Android developers should primarily target the Vulkan API for high performance compute needs...

Firefox 88 Released With FTP Support Disabled, Support For JavaScript In PDFs

Phoronix - Mon, 04/19/2021 - 23:40
Firefox 88.0 is out today as the latest version of Mozilla's web browser...

AMD EPYC 7003 Series Performance In The Cloud With Microsoft Azure HBv3 HPC VMs

Phoronix - Mon, 04/19/2021 - 23:07
One of the exciting elements of last month's AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" series launch was having same-day availability in public clouds. Microsoft as one of AMD's cloud partners worked closely to deliver launch-day availability in their public cloud using EPYC 7003 series processors with the new "HBv3" instances focused on high performance computing (HPC) virtual machines. Here are some benchmarks of the Azure HPv3 instances compared to prior generation Microsoft Azure HPC instances available on-demand in their cloud.

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