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Vulkan 1.3.260 Released With AMDX_shader_enqueue, KHR_maintenance5

Phoronix - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 23:24
Vulkan 1.3.260 is out today with a handful of specification clarifications/fixes as well as two new extensions...

Running The AMD EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" CPUs With A 320W cTDP To Enhance Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 22:25
The new AMD EPYC Bergamo and Genoa-X processors have been very fascinating in the lab from the performance angle and the many different features and knobs provided by these new high-end server processors focused on dense cloud and energy-efficient deployments and HPC/AI, respectively. With Bergamo the flagship AMD EPYC 9754 provides 128 cores with SMT and the Zen 4C cores still boast AVX-512. Another nifty aspect on this high core count CPU catering to cloud service providers is the adjustable TDP from 320 to Watts. Prior Phoronix benchmarks have looked at the default 360 Watt performance and the 400W at the high-end with power determinism mode while today's article is looking at the efficiency gains made possible by pulling back to a 320W cTDP.

OpenZFS 2.2-rc3 Released With Linux 6.4 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 20:00
It appears the OpenZFS 2.2 file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems will see its release very soon while out today is the third release candidate...

systemd 254 With New Soft Reboots Feature, systemd-battery-check

Phoronix - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 18:38
Systemd 254 is out today in time for appearing in the late-2023 Linux distribution releases...

Intel's oneAPI Construction Kit 3.0 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 18:32
Announced in early June by Intel-owned Codeplay Software was the oneAPI Construction Kit for helping to bring SYCL codebases to new processor/accelerator architectures with an emphasis on AI and HPC. Today marks the release already of the oneAPI Construction Kit 3.0...

Richard Hughes Developing New "Passim" Local Caching Server

Phoronix - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 18:17
Richard Hughes is the Red Hat developer who is most prominently known for leading the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and Fwupd development as well as formerly being behind the ColorHug monitor color calibration hardware effort and PackageKit, among other open-source software. He's recently been developing a new software project called Passim that today he announced to the world...

LLVM 18 Lands -march=arrowlake / arrowlake-s / lunarlake

Phoronix - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 17:56
Going along with LLVM's recent additions around supporting new Intel instructions coming with future generation Core CPUs, the LLVM 18 Git development code has now landed support for actually honoring -march=arrowlake, -march=arrowlake-s, and -march=lunarlake targets...

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