CentOS Stream 10 Showing Nice Performance Uplift In Early Benchmarks On AmpereOne

As part of the ongoing AmpereOne testing at Phoronix with the 192-core AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor, I've been working on several different Linux distribution benchmarks with this Supermicro AmpereOne server. That comparison in full should be published next week while worth highlighting on its own are some of the gains seen with the in-development …
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Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues

Intel today as part of their "Patch Tuesday" released new CPU microcode for recent generation Core and Xeon processors. Two security updates were made along with fixing a handful of functional issues...
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Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Finally Expose GPU Package Temperature

With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel the Intel graphics driver will finally be able to report GPU fan speeds. Another long sought feature is also on the way for this open-source Linux driver: GPU package temperature reporting for Intel discrete GPUs...
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AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program

AlmaLinux to further distinguish itself from other RHEL-based Linux distributions has announced a Certification Special Interest Group (SIG) and out of that is coming a AlmaLinux Hardware Certification Program...
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Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers

Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a lot from the new QATlib 24.09 release...
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Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed

Following Canonical's decision to enable frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and then they ended up adding a number of performance tools to ship by default with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, for Ubuntu 24.10 a late change is adding another tool to be installed by default on the Ubuntu desktop: Sysprof...
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RADV Merges Vulkan Pipeline Binary Support

Thanks to the work of Valve Linux graphics driver developer Samuel Pitoiset, the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is now the first within Mesa supporting the new Vulkan pipeline binary extension...
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Another Arrow Lake Graphics Device ID Being Added To Intel's Linux Driver

The Intel Arrow Lake Linux graphics driver support appears largely wrapped up following a patch for properly handling the necessary GSC firmware requirements and building off all the existing Meteor Lake Arc Graphics driver code paths. There are a number of Arrow Lake PCI device IDs already present for the graphics while a new one is being added now to the kernel …
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Mesa 24.3 Removes Support For The Long-Abandoned OpenMAX API

Some long-rotting code in Mesa has been flushed out today... Mesa 24.3 is now 11.6k lines of code lighter after removing support for the OpenMAX (OMX) API that was implemented as a Gallium3D state tracker long ago and hasn't seen any activity in recent years and the upstream OpenMAX standards work halted more than one decade ago...
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Intel Efficiency Latency Control "ELC" Feature Slated For Linux 6.12

Last month I wrote about Intel Linux engineers working on a new Efficiency Latency Control feature for their uncore driver. This ELC option allows for adjusting the behavior of the Intel uncore for efficiency versus latency characteristics. Those Intel ELC patches to the TPMI uncore driver are now queued up for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle...
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Latest "sched/rt" Commits Point To PREEMPT_RT Potentially Being Ready For Linux 6.12

Excitement is building that the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support might finally be ready for the mainline kernel as soon as the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. It will be interesting to see if that long-awaited day finally comes this month but recently noted patches have now been queued into tip/tip.git's "sched/rt" branch ahead of the Linux 6.12 …
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AWS Graviton4 vs. AmpereOne 192-Core Benchmarks For Leading AArch64 Server Performance

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 …
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KDE Plans To Enhance Application Development Experience, Recruit More Contributors

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...
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Intel Panther Lake HDMI Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.12

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...
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Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration

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

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...
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 7950X/7950X3D For Workstation Graphics

While Windows gamers seem mixed over the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors, for creator, scientific / HPC, code development, and many other technical computing areas I remain very impressed by the Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5) series desktop processors more than one month into constant testing with these Granite Ridge chips. One of the areas I hadn't explored until now but …
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