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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.

Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund Announced For Long-Term Support To Rust Developers

Phoronix - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 02:00
The Rust Foundation announced today the creation of the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund as a new means of providing consistent, transparent, and long-term support for developers that make the Rust programming language possible...

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