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Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" List Prices Top Out At $17,800 USD

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 02:30
Last week with the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors, Intel didn't disclose their list prices... Today they added the Granite Rapids list prices to their ARK database. With Granite Rapids making Intel much more competitive to the AMD EPYC competition and over prior generation Xeon CPUs, these new processors are commanding a higher price tag with the Xeon 6980P topping out at $17,800 USD...

Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2024 - 01:58
Mesa 24.2.4 is out today as the newest stable point release to this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers...

MRDIMM 8800MT/s vs. DDR5-6400 Memory Performance With Intel Xeon 6

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 23:15
Last week when kicking off the Intel Granite Rapids benchmarking with the Xeon 6980P processors there was particularly strong performance within HPC and other scientific computing workloads. Besides going now up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket, another reason for the especially strong generational uplift and against the current AMD EPYC competition is Xeon 6 Granite Rapids introducing Multiplexed Rank memory support. One of the areas I've been eager to explore is quantifying the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM 8800MT/s performance difference and this article is dedicated to looking at that memory performance impact for the Xeon 6900P series.

Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 20:37
Now that sched_ext was upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel as part of the many great features in Linux 6.12, Fedora's kernel builds are prepared to enable this innovative scheduler feature that allows for new scheduling policies to be loaded via (e)BPF programs...

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