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AWS Graviton4 vs. AmpereOne 192-Core Benchmarks For Leading AArch64 Server Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 23:15
With the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server that's in the lab for a few weeks for reviewing the AmpereOne A192-32X and delivering the first independent benchmarks of the AmpereOne 192-core AArch64 server processor, the AmpereOne benchmarks to date have been comparing to other Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server platforms. But if looking up to the cloud is the closest AArch64 server competition to AmpereOne there is: Amazon's Graviton4. In today's article ia showdown looking at how AmpereOne and AWS Graviton4 compete at 192 cores for ARM 64-bit server performance.

Redox OS 0.9 Brings COSMIC Apps, Better Performance & Improved Linux App Compatibility

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 21:54
Redox OS 0.9 has been released today as a big update to this from-scratch Rust-written open-source operating system...

KDE Plans To Enhance Application Development Experience, Recruit More Contributors

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 20:35
Earlier this summer KDE began soliciting ideas for what their goals should be over the next 2~3 years. This weekend at their annual Akademy KDE developer conference their next round of goals were solidified...

Intel Panther Lake HDMI Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 18:30
While Intel Lunar Lake is only beginning to ship later this month, Intel Linux engineers have already begun work on enabling its successor: Panther Lake. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle will be more early enablement work on Intel Panther Lake, presumably what will be the Core Ultra 300 series...

Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 18:17
Miracle-WM 0.3.5 was released this weekend as the newest step forward for this Mir-based window manager / Wayland compositor developed by a Canonical engineer. Miracle-WM continues being polished ahead of the upcoming Fedora Miracle Spin debuting as part of Fedora 41...

OpenJPH v0.16 Now Using AVX2 For Faster HTJ2K/JPEG2000

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 18:09
OpenJPH v0.16 has been released as the newest version of this open-source implementation of High-Throughput JPEG2000 (HTJK), also known as JPH / JPEG2000 Part 15. With this new release comes faster performance thanks to making use of Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) to complement its existing AVX-512 code...

Hyprland 0.43 Wayland Compositor Releases, Raises Build Requirements To C++26

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2024 - 17:45
Hyprland 0.43 is out as the newest version of this independent, very customizable Wayland compositor focused on providing a dynamic tiling experience...

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