AMD’s GPUOpen team today released a number of updated components for graphics application/engine developers…
Source: Phoronix – AMD’s GPUOpen Releases Updated RGP, RGA & RMV Tools For Developers
With the new Linux 6.5 kernel stable series one of the many new features is defaulting to the AMD P-State driver with the EPP/active mode compared to the long-used default of the ACPI CPUFreq driver. As shown in various Phoronix articles this can help with the mobile/desktop performance with this new default change while this article is looking at the Ryzen for server benefits too.
Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 With AMD P-State EPP Default Brings Performance & Power Efficiency Benefits For Ryzen Servers
Amid all the recent chatter around Bcachefs working its way toward mainline and all the ongoing improvements to existing Linux file-systems, you may have forgotten about Puzzlefs as the new file-system aiming to be an optimal solution for containers and with a kernel driver written in the Rust programming language…
Source: Phoronix – PuzzleFS Continues Striving To Be The Best File-System For Containers
Over the summer the AMDGPU compiler back-end in upstream LLVM began with new targets for GFX1150 and GFX1151 which given all things known are likely the “RDNA3 Refresh” APUs. That work started out light with not much in the way of different code paths from the existing GFX11 support but we’re beginning to see some new instructions added for the RDNA3 refresh graphics processors…
Source: Phoronix – AMDGPU LLVM Backend Begins Seeing Additions For New RDNA3 Refresh Instructions
The CentOS board has approved the creation of a CentOS Integration Special Interest Group (SIG) to assist those building products and services atop Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or in particular its upstream, CentOS Stream…
Source: Phoronix – CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream
Mesa 23.1.8 was released on Wednesday as yet another bi-weekly stable release for the Mesa 23.1 release as that series drags on while waiting for Mesa 23.2 to materialize…
Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.1.8 Released While Waiting On Mesa 23.2
GNOME 45 is out as stable today as the latest six-month update to this open-source desktop environment that will be powering the likes of Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora Workstation 39…
Source: Phoronix – GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator
The latest set of patches for the Wine Wayland driver have been posted for review that continue working on enabling native Wayland support for this open-source software that allows Windows applications and games to be enjoyed under Linux…
Source: Phoronix – Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities
Intel announced this morning on the second day of their Innovation 2023 conference that they are collaborating with software vendors such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE for providing Intel-optimized Linux distributions…
Source: Phoronix – Intel To Further Collaborate With Red Hat, Canonical & SUSE For Intel-Optimized Linux Distros
Last year Intel announced Project Amber as an effort to verify the trustworthiness of clouds. Project Amber was talked up as “an innovative service-based security implementation” for the remote verification of the trustworthiness of compute assets. Project Amber is now rolling out as the Intel Trust Authority…
Source: Phoronix – Project Amber Officially Launches As The Intel Trust Authority
There’s just under one month to go now until the X.Org Developers’ Conference (XDC) returns to A Coruña, Spain for the annual development conference focused on open-source graphics drivers (Mesa), Wayland, and related Linux display/graphics infrastructure although the X.Org Server itself hasn’t received much attention in recent years. Here’s a look at some of the planned talks for the exciting XDC 2023…
Source: Phoronix – XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland
When it comes to Glibc HWCAPs for allowing the C library to load optimized libraries based upon the CPU features at run-time, it’s mostly been focused on the x86_64 world for targeting higher x86-64 levels or being able to load optimized libraries for systems with AVX support. Loongson though has now contributed initial LoongArch HWCAPs support…
Source: Phoronix – Glibc Lands HWCAPs Support For LoongArch
While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) isn’t as common on Arm SoCs as it is in the x86 and POWER worlds, there are some SMT-capable designs like with the HiSilicon Kupeng 930 for Arm servers. HiSilicon engineers are working now to extend Linux’s SMT run-time controls to work on ARM64 (AArch64)…
Source: Phoronix – HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux
In addition to Oracle releasing OpenJDK 21 / Java 21 on Tuesday, their GraalVM team also carried out a same-day release of GraalVM with the new Java 21 features and more…
Source: Phoronix – GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results
NVIDIA’s latest patches intended for the upstream Linux kernel are over on the networking side of the house with their Mellanox wares as they prepare 800Gb/s (XDR) support within the RDMA/InfiniBand code…
Source: Phoronix – NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR
As a continuation of last week’s article looking at Linux 6.6 bringing some impressive gains for AMD EPYC Bergamo, over the past few days I’ve also tested Linux 6.5 stable and Linux 6.6 Git on Genoa and Genoa-X processors as well as Intel Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” in looking at this next kernel version’s performance. The Sapphire Rapids performance was largely flat while for an interesting class of workloads the Linux 6.6 performance drives the AMD EPYC server performance much higher.
Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 Looks To Be Very Lucrative For AMD Server Performance
Intel is kicking off their Innovation 2023 conference in San Jose with many exciting announcements. Freed from embargo this morning is news around their upcoming mobile and server processors, lots of AI talk, Intel’s continued software advancements to complement their hardware, and more…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Innovation 2023 Kicks Off With Meteor Lake & Emerald Rapids Launch Date: 14 Dec
Java 21 and the JDK 21 release under a general availability (GA) status occurred a short time ago as the newest major update to the Java programming language…
Source: Phoronix – Java 21 / JDK 21 Reaches GA With Virtual Threads, Generational ZGC
The beta release of Fedora 39 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release prior to the end of October…
Source: Phoronix – Fedora 39 Beta Released With Faster DNF, GNOME 45 Desktop
Here’s a surprise announcement I was briefed on last week and now made public by the Linux Foundation and Intel… The Linux Foundation is forming the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation that is an evolution of Intel’s oneAPI initiative and has the potential to make the compute accelerator ecosystem as a whole more open and unified across vendors.
Source: Phoronix – Intel oneAPI Initiative Evolves Into The Unified Acceleration “UXL” Foundation