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Intel Xeon Gold 5220R + Xeon Gold 6226R Linux Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 05:00
At the end of February Intel launched the Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake Refresh" processors with a number of more aggressively priced SKUs with different core counts and clock speeds compared to the original Cascade Lake CPUs launched last year. Intel recently sent over the Xeon Gold 5220R and Xeon Gold 6226R processors and we've begun our Linux benchmarks of them. In this article is our initial look at their performance using a near-final build of Ubuntu 20.04 and seeing how the performance stacks up in raw performance and performance-per-dollar against the AMD EPYC competition.

Unigine Community Edition Offers Engine For Free To Non-Commercial/Academic Projects

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 03:38
Unigine Corp has announced a new "Community" edition of their visually stunning, cross-platform game/simulation engine that will be available to non-commercial projects and academic entities...

Wine 5.6 Continues Media Foundation Enablement

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 03:27
Wine 5.6 is out as the latest bi-weekly snapshot of this program for running Windows applications and games under Linux...

Systemd-OOMD Continues Coming Together For Better Linux Out-Of-Memory Handling

Phoronix - Fri, 04/10/2020 - 20:49
Beyond the new systemd-homed functionality, another improvement to look forward to in the systemd space this calendar year is systemd-oomd materializing as its new out-of-memory daemon...

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