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3 December

ASRock X570D4U BMC Working Toward OpenBMC Support
ASRock X570D4U BMC Working Toward OpenBMC Support
3 December 03:00 AM EST - Hardware - ASRock X570D4U + OpenBMC - 8 Comments

For those that happen to own an ASRock Rack X570D4U micro-ATX motherboard or are in the market for a server-grade AMD Ryzen 5000 series motherboard, patches are pending as this motherboard works on OpenBMC support as an alternative to the proprietary BMC software stack that ships with this AMD Ryzen 5000 series + ECC DDR4 supported motherboard.

2 December

1 December

SNC/NPS Tuning For Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series To Further Boost Performance
SNC/NPS Tuning For Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series To Further Boost Performance
1 December 10:20 AM EST - Software - 10 Comments

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series offer great performance out-of-the-box for Linux desktop/workstation users as shown in my Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X benchmarks along with the Threadripper PRO 7995WX. While a more common tunable on the EPYC side, the Threadripper 7000 series can also benefit from Nodes Per Socket (NPS) / Sub-NUMA Clustering (SNC) tuning for enhancing the performance of some workloads. In this article is a look at dozens of benchmarks while looking at the performance impact of SNC2/SNC4 adjustments for the Zen 4 Threadripper.

Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights
1 December 05:00 AM EST - Phoronix - November Highlights - 1 Comment

November was very busy on Phoronix with all of the benchmarking around the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series, the much anticipated Framework 13 laptop review, a lot of Wayland accomplishments being made this week, excitement building around the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop release, and the Linux 6.7 kernel getting underway with new features like the Bcachefs file-system.

30 November

AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux
30 November 01:28 PM EST - AMD - AMD P-State Preferred Core - 12 Comments

For the past number of months AMD has been actively working on enabling AMD P-State Preferred Core functionality for Linux so that their modern processors can communicate "preferred" cores to the Linux kernel scheduler for making better decisions around task placement and ultimately ensuring best performance of Ryzen and EPYC processors running on Linux. This week they are up to their 11th take on these kernel patches.

Jolla's Former Management Acquires The Business
30 November 01:20 PM EST - Hardware - Jolla Is Moving - 69 Comments

It's been a number of years since many in the Linux/open-source space have been excited by the Jolla smartphone efforts with their failed smartphone/tablet devices and more recently focusing their Linux-based Sailfish OS devices for running on existing devices. The latest chapter in Jolla is the former management acquiring the Jolla business.

Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements On Ampere Altra Max
30 November 10:30 AM EST - Operating Systems - 8 Comments

Gigabyte (Giga Computing) recently sent over their G242-P36 HPC/AI Arm server platform built for Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors. This 2U server platform can accommodate up to four graphics cards or a mix of GPUs and DPUs if so desired, for maxing out the AI possibilities on Arm. I'll have up a full review on the G242-P36 soon while in this article is a look at the direction of the Ubuntu Server Arm performance from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to now with Ubuntu 23.10 ahead of the important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle.

29 November

Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts
29 November 04:00 AM EST - Arm - More ARM CPU Cores - 4 Comments

Ampere Computing has sent out its latest patch attempt at increasing the number of Arm CPU cores supported by the mainline Linux kernel. As it stands at the moment the 64-bit ARM mainline Linux kernel build supports 256 cores, which can be exceeded with Ampere's new AmpereOne processors in a multi-socket configuration.

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