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AMD ZenDNN 4.1 Released For Speeding Up Deep Learning Inference On Ryzen / EPYC CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

AMD on Thursday released ZenDNN 4.1 as the newest release of their Zen Deep Neural Network Library for accelerating inference workloads on AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. The ZenDNN library remains API compatible with Intel's oneDNN library and helps for building out optimized AI workloads for use on AMD Zen processors...

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Red Hat Working On Delayed Module Signature Verification To Speed-Up Linux Boot Times

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 September, 2023

A Red Hat engineer has published patches to optionally allow delayed module signature verification in an effort to have a secure Linux system but to allow for faster boot times...

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PostgreSQL 16 Released With More Performance Improvements, SIMD For x86 & Arm

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September, 2023

PostgreSQL 16 released today as a very exciting update for this popular open-source SQL server...

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sdl12-compat 1.2.66 Gets More Games/Software Working On This SDL2 Portability Layer

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September, 2023

The sdl12-compat project is an interesting effort to allow for aging software and games targeting the SDL 1.2 APIs to work atop this compatibility layer so it in turn runs atop the SDL2 libraries. With the sdl12-compat 1.2.66 release more games and other software are now successfully working on this library...

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Linux 6.6 Delivers Some Impressive Gains For AMD EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" Server Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September, 2023

From my early testing thus far of the Linux 6.6 kernel in its very early state, some of the most impressive gains are happening on AMD's high core count server processors, the EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" in particular is enjoying some stellar improvements for various server workloads on this forthcoming kernel.

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Linux 6.7 To Make It Easier To Toggle Support For x86 32-bit Programs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September, 2023

The Linux kernel currently allows disabling support for 32-bit programs and 32-bit system calls at compile-time, but a new option expected to be introduced with Linux 6.7 this winter will provide a new "ia32_emulation" boot time option to allow unconditionally disabling support for 32-bit programs and system calls...

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GNU Assembler Starts Getting Ready For Intel AVX10.1

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September, 2023

Back in July Intel announced AVX10 as the future of AVX-512 and how they ultimately plan to support more Advanced Vector Extensions capabilities on both future P and E cores. Since then they've begun making preparations to the open-source compiler toolchains around enabling AVX10...

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AMD To Enable Seamless Boot Across Modern Radeon Graphics Hardware

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September, 2023

The past two years AMD's AMDGPU Linux kernel driver has supported Seamless Boot on Van Gogh APUs notably used by Valve's Steam Deck. AMD Seamless Boot is for a seamless or flicker-free boot experience by aiming to avoid redundant/unnecessary mode-sets by the driver. After a few years being limited in its scope of supported hardware, new patches are aiming to open up Seamless Boot usage to more AMD Radeon graphics hardware...

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Intel IFS Driver Prepares For Granite Rapids & Sierra Forest

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 September, 2023

One of the nifty new features with Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors not talked about much is the In-Field Scan (IFS) functionality for allowing various tests to be carried out prior to deploy the new processors or over time in the data center for trying to spot any silicon-level issues. IFS aims to uncover any processor issues not caught by ECC, parity checks, RAS, or other safeguards when new CPUs reach the data center or as they age over time...