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AMD Isn't Done Yet Optimizing The Mesa RadeonSI Driver For Workstation OpenGL

Phoronix - Fri, 08/18/2023 - 01:03
While over the past several years AMD landed numerous significant improvements to their RadeonSI driver for benefiting OpenGL workstation use-cases, that quest isn't yet over and more optimizations continue to be pursued. There are additional optimizations on the horizon for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for benefiting OpenGL on Linux workstations...

Amazon's New EC2 M7a AMD EPYC "Genoa" Instances Deliver Leading Performance In The AWS Cloud

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 23:26
While back in November was when AWS originally announced new EC2 instances powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC "Genoa" processors, only this week did they bring their M7a general purpose instances to a general availability state where anyone can access them. Being very impressed with 4th Gen EPYC bare metal as well as with Azure's HPC cloud, I fired up some benchmarks of the new Genoa-powered EC2 M7a instance compared to the new M7i instances powered by Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" as well as showing how the competition is to Amazon's in-house Graviton ARM-based server processors.

Intel Publishes PCIe Bandwidth Controller Linux Driver To Prevent Thermal Issues

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 21:38
Intel engineer Ilpo Järvinen posted a set of Linux kernel driver patches to introduce a new "bwctrl" PCI Express Bandwidth Controller driver and associated PCIe cooling driver to allow for limiting the PCIe link speed in the event of any system thermal issues...

Intel QAT Adapted For Zstd To Provide Big Performance/Efficiency Wins

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 19:45
While Intel has maintained the QATzip open-source compression library for demonstrating data compression using QuickAssist Technology (QAT) with DEFLATE/LZ4/LZ4s, Intel has also been working on QAT'ed Zstd for achieving some sizable victories in performance and power efficiency...

Initial AVX10.1 Support Merged Into The GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 18:21
It was less than one month ago that Intel announced AVX10 as the successor to AVX-512. In that time Intel engineers have begun posting AVX10.1 enablement patches for GCC as well as beginning AVX10 discussions for the LLVM compiler stack. Overnight already the initial AVX10.1 enablement code has been merged into the GNU Compiler Collection...

Linux 6.6 Etnaviv Driver Working On More NXP i.MX8MP Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 18:05
The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for providing open-source graphics support for Vivante graphics IP has prepared a new set of improvements for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle...

OBS Studio 30 Beta Brings Intel QSV On Linux, WHIP/WebRTC Output

Phoronix - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 17:49
The first beta release of the forthcoming OBS Studio 30 screencasting software is now available for testing...

How to Add, Delete and Update Files in Tar Archive in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 08/17/2023 - 17:08
The post How to Add, Delete and Update Files in Tar Archive in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the realm of file archiving and compression, the tar command stands as a versatile tool for creating, managing, and manipulating archives in Linux systems.

The post How to Add, Delete and Update Files in Tar Archive in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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