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Linux Finally Retiring HIPPI: The First Near-Gigabit Standard For Networking Supercomputers

Phoronix - Thu, 01/22/2026 - 09:20
While the Linux kernel has been seeing preparations from NVIDIA for 1.6 Tb/s networking in preparing for next-generation super-computing, the kernel has still retained support to now for the High Performance Parallel Interface. HIPPI was the standard for connecting supercomputers in the late 1980s and a portion of the 1990s with being the first networking standard for near-Gigabit connectivity at 800 Mb/s over distances up to 25 meters. But HIPPI looks like it will be retired from the mainline kernel with Linux 7.0...

Understanding security embargoes at Red Hat

Red Hat News - Thu, 01/22/2026 - 08:00
Within Red Hat’s Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) framework, an embargo is a strictly-defined window of time during which a security vulnerability is known only to a small group of trusted parties before being made public, including the vulnerability reporter and the relevant upstream community and partners.Why are embargoes necessary? The primary goal of an embargo is customer protection. If a severe vulnerability is disclosed immediately upon discovery by way of "full disclosure" without an available patch, malicious actors have a window of opportunity to exploit systems while us

New observability features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.15

Red Hat News - Thu, 01/22/2026 - 08:00
The latest release of the Red Hat OpenShift cluster observability operator 1.3 introduces observability signal correlation, incident detection, application performance monitoring (APM) dashboard, and more. These features aim to revolutionize how organizations monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain containerized environments by reducing complexity and accelerating issue resolution.Cluster observability operator 1.3Advanced observability capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift have evolved significantly, with the 1.3 release introducing the general availability of two features to help organizations monit

AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Next-Gen EPYC Features: GLBE, GLSBE & PLZA

Phoronix - Thu, 01/22/2026 - 06:48
Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list this afternoon were a set of 19 patches in preparing for some new CPU features presumably to be found with AMD's next-generation EPYC "Venice" processors...

AMD ROCm 7.2 Now Released With More Radeon Graphics Cards Supported, ROCm Optiq Introduced

Phoronix - Thu, 01/22/2026 - 04:52
Back at CES earlier this month AMD talked up features of the ROCm 7.2 release. ROCm 7.2 though wasn't actually released then, at least not for Linux. That ROCm 7.2.0 release though was pushed out today as the latest improvement to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack and officially extending the support to more Radeon graphics cards...

Mesa 26.0-rc1 Released With RADV Improvements Leading The Way Along With Intel & NVK

Phoronix - Thu, 01/22/2026 - 03:49
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 26.0-rc1 with the code for this quarter's Mesa feature release now branched and under a feature freeze leading up to the stable release in February...

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