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POWER9 Articles & Reviews

Another Look At The Performance Impact To IBM's POWER9 L1d Flushing Change   Software   2020-12-04
The Performance Impact To POWER9's Eager L1d Cache Flushing Fix   Software   2020-11-25
POWER9 & ARM Performance Against Intel Xeon Cascadelake + AMD EPYC Rome   Processors   2019-08-19
GCC vs. Clang Compiler Benchmarks On POWER9 With Raptor's Blackbird   Software   2019-07-23
An Initial Look At The IBM POWER9 4-Core / 16-Thread CPU Performance On The Blackbird   Processors   2019-07-01
The Speculative Execution Impact For A 4-Core POWER9   Processors   2019-06-12
Raptor's Blackbird Arrives As The Most Open-Source Yet Fast Desktop System   Computers   2019-05-28
Benchmarking A 10-Core Tyan/IBM POWER Server For ~$300 USD   Computers   2019-03-21
Extensive Benchmarks Looking At AMD Znver1 GCC 9 Performance, EPYC Compiler Tuning   Software   2019-02-20
GCC 8/9 vs. LLVM Clang 7/8 Compiler Performance On AArch64   Software   2019-02-12
GCC 8/9 vs. LLVM Clang 7/8 Compiler Performance On POWER9 With The Raptor Talos II   Software   2019-02-08
Ubuntu vs. Debian vs. openSUSE On The POWER9 Raptor Talos II   Operating Systems   2019-02-01
A Look At The Open-Source Talos II POWER9 Performance Against x86_64 Server CPUs   Computers   2018-11-27
The Performance Impact Of Spectre Mitigation On POWER9   Software   2018-11-11
Raptor Talos II POWER9 Benchmarks Against AMD Threadripper & Intel Core i9   Processors   2018-11-08
13-Way IBM POWER9 Talos II vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD Linux Benchmarks On Debian   Processors   2018-06-25
POWER9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance On Debian Linux   Processors   2018-04-04

POWER9 Linux & Open-Source News

IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9   Linux Kernel   2024-02-21
Hangover Aiming For RISC-V Support This Year, x86_64 Emulation   WINE   2024-01-18
GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support   GNU   2024-01-10
Raptor Computing Developing New Secure BMC & New OpenPOWER ISA 3.1 Based Systems   Hardware   2023-10-20
IBM Begins Posting "PowerPC Future" Compiler Patches For What Is Likely Going To Be POWER11   GNU   2023-10-19
Linux 6.6 To Make It Easier To Enable Partial SMT For POWER   Hardware   2023-08-02
AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V   Radeon   2023-07-28
Wine-Based Hangover 8.11 Begins Integrating FEX Emulator Support   WINE   2023-07-09
Linux 6.5 Preps For IBM POWER's "DEXCR"   Linux Kernel   2023-06-20
Google's Patches To Speed-Up Over-Committed Linux Guest VMs Are Looking Great   Virtualization   2023-06-09
Purism Librem Server v2 Announced: $2999 USD For A 9th Gen Core i3 With 16GB RAM   Hardware   2023-05-30
Intel's OpenGL & Vulkan Linux Drivers Now Build On ARM   Intel   2023-04-17
Trisquel 11 LTS Released As Ubuntu-Based, FSF-Approved Linux Distribution   Operating Systems   2023-03-21
Hangover 0.8.3 Released For Enjoying Windows x86/x86_64 Apps/Games On Linux ARM64   WINE   2023-03-09
AMD Preparing "openSIL" For Open-Source Silicon Initialization With Coreboot   AMD   2023-03-03
Hangover 0.8.1 Released To Run Some x86 Windows Apps On ARM64 Linux   WINE   2023-02-16
Hangover Project Restarted To Run Windows 32-bit/64-bit Apps On ARM64/PPC64 & More   WINE   2023-02-11
Linux 6.2 Landing Scalability Improvement For Large IBM Power Systems   Linux Kernel   2022-12-19
Intel Mesa Driver Changes Land For Building On Non-x86 CPUs   Intel   2022-11-23
Intel's Open-Source Arc Graphics Driver Not Yet Working On POWER Hardware   Intel   2022-11-03
Linux 6.1 POWERs Up With KFENCE, Syscall Wrappers, Execute-Only Memory   Linux Kernel   2022-10-16
Raptor Launches Arctic Tern As An Open-Source BMC Solution   Hardware   2022-07-28
Raptor Computing To Launch "Arctic Tern" As An FPGA-Based Soft BMC   Hardware   2022-07-17
Open-Source Firmware For The MSI Alder Lake Motherboard Taking Shape   Hardware   2022-05-11
ADLINK Launches Ampere Altra Developer Platform, Starting At $3999 USD   Arm   2022-04-07
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Beta Released With Many Improvements   Ubuntu   2022-03-31
Coreboot 4.16 Released With New Motherboard Ports, AMD Sabrina SoC   Coreboot   2022-02-27
Intel Patches To Make It Easier To Run Their Discrete Graphics On Arm, Other Architectures   Intel   2022-02-01
Microsoft's Director of OS Security Gets Coreboot Playing Nicely With Windows 11   Microsoft   2022-01-18
Binary Blobs Continue To Prove Challenging For POWER10 Plus Very Expensive Motherboards   Hardware   2021-12-15
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS To Shift Its PPC64EL Baseline To POWER9 CPUs, Dropping POWER8   Ubuntu   2021-12-11
Not All Of The IBM POWER10 Firmware Is Currently Open-Source   Hardware   2021-09-08
Gentoo Spins Up More Stage Downloads For Musl libc, Systemd Init   Operating Systems   2021-07-20
ASRock Rack Has One Of The Best, Most Open-Source Firmware x86 Server Motherboards   Coreboot   2021-07-15
Another Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Motherboard Now Works For Coreboot (ASUS P8Z77-V)   Coreboot   2021-06-14
GNU Guix 1.3 Released With Better User Experience, Initial POWER9 Support   GNU   2021-05-12
Linux 5.13 Yanks A NVIDIA NVLink Driver For Lack Of Open-Source User   NVIDIA   2021-05-07
IBM Turns To More Optimizations For Linux On POWER10   Linux Kernel   2021-04-25
Linux 5.13 To Allow For OpenBMC Development With A Lower-Cost ASRock Rack Motherboard   Hardware   2021-04-14
Linux Kernel's Preliminary Rust Code Seeing 64-bit POWER Support   Linux Kernel   2021-03-23
IBM Lands Last Minute POWER10 Updates Into GCC 11 Compiler   GNU   2021-03-22
Void Linux Has Been Working To Deliver Great POWER Support   Operating Systems   2021-02-27
KVM With Linux 5.12 Allows For Userspace To Emulate Xen Hypercalls, AMD Optimization Too   Virtualization   2021-02-15
Wine Begins Landing PPC64 Code To Eventually Help With Windows Programs On POWER   WINE   2021-02-10
GNU C Library 2.33 Should Be Out Soon - And It's Very Exciting Due To "HWCAPS"   GNU   2021-01-29
Raptor Announces Kestrel Open-Source, Open HDL/Firmware Soft BMC   Hardware   2021-01-21
POWER9 + ARM64 Performance For Dav1d 0.8 AV1 Decoding   Multimedia   2021-01-09
AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, Timely New Open-Source GPU Support   AMD   2020-12-29
OpenBLAS 0.3.13 Released With A RISC-V Port, POWER10 Optimizations   Programming   2020-12-12
Intel Releases oneDNN 2.0 To Bring The Open-Source Neural Network Library To Its GPUs   Intel   2020-12-09
Phoronix 2020 Black Friday Reminders   Premium   2020-11-27
The 2020 US Thanksgiving / Black Friday Phoronix Premium Special   Premium   2020-11-24
Linux 5.10-rc5 Released And It's Still Seeing Too Much Churn   Linux Kernel   2020-11-22
Linux Sees A Slew Of Point Releases Due To That Nasty IBM POWER9 Vulnerability   Linux Kernel   2020-11-22
IBM POWER9 CPUs Need To Flush Their L1 Cache Between Privilege Boundaries Due To New Bug   Hardware   2020-11-20
The FSF Is Looking To Update Its High Priority Free Software Projects List   Free Software   2020-10-29
OpenBSD Marks 25th Anniversary By Releasing OpenBSD 6.8 With POWER 64-Bit Support   BSD   2020-10-18
PowerPC 601 Support Retired In Linux 5.10 While Continuing To Bring Up POWER10   Hardware   2020-10-17
Windows x64 Binaries Can Now Run On POWER9 Under Linux With Hangover   WINE   2020-10-05
OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks   Linux Events   2020-09-20
Libre/Open-Source POWER10 Hardware Systems Unlikely Until At Least 2022   Hardware   2020-08-17
IBM Details 7nm POWER10 CPUs But Not Shipping Until H2'2021   Hardware   2020-08-17
Wine Patches Revived For 64-bit POWER Support, Hangover To Run Windows Apps On POWER   WINE   2020-08-17
Linux 5.9 Brings More IBM POWER10 Support, New/Faster SCV System Call ABI   Hardware   2020-08-09
Linux 5.9 Bringing IBM POWER "System Call Vectored" Support   Linux Kernel   2020-07-24
Glibc-HWCAPS To Help With AMD Zen Optimizations, Other Per-CPU Performance Bits   GNU   2020-07-07
55th TOP500 Supercomputer List Topped By Arm-Based Fujitsu A64FX   Hardware   2020-06-22
Linux 5.8 Has The Bits Needed To Begin Booting POWER10 Processors   Linux Kernel   2020-06-05
Linux 5.8 To See Support For POWER10's Prefixed Instructions   Hardware   2020-05-22
OpenBSD Seeing Initial Work Land On Enabling 64-bit POWER   BSD   2020-05-18
IBM Drops The "Silliness" - POWERXX Is Indeed POWER10 With Updated Open-Source Patches   Hardware   2020-05-11
GNU C Library Adds Detection Support For Zhaoxin CPUs   GNU   2020-05-04
Wine Patches Cleaned Up, Out For Review On Very Early POWER 64-Bit Support   WINE   2020-04-26
Raptor Rolls Out New OpenBMC Firmware With Featureful Web GUI For System Management   Hardware   2020-02-20
Nsight Graphics 2020.1 Released With Profiling For Vulkan+OpenGL Interop   NVIDIA   2020-01-24
AMD Begins Providing PowerPC Builds Of Their "AOMP" GPU Compiler   Radeon   2020-01-14
AMD Has More Radeon Graphics Driver Code Ready For Linux 5.6   Radeon   2020-01-10
Purism Announces Librem Server While Also Announcing Price Hikes On The Librem 5   Hardware   2019-12-17
Raptor Computing Is Working On More AMD Radeon Driver Improvements For POWER   Radeon   2019-12-08
Linux 5.5 KVM Adds POWER Support For Secure Guests/VMs   Virtualization   2019-12-07
Linux 5.5 Begins Plumbing Secure Boot Infrastructure For POWER9   Hardware   2019-12-04
AMDGPU Fixes For Linux 5.5 Include AMDKFD For PowerPC, Fix For Old ATI R100/R200 GPUs   Radeon   2019-12-03
Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs   Linux Security   2019-11-28
AMDKFD/ROCm GPU Compute Can Work On POWER Systems Like Raptor's Talos II   Radeon   2019-11-24
POWER9 Blackbird Performance On Ubuntu 19.04 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Benchmarks   Ubuntu   2019-11-23
November Is Still Bringing Many Interesting Linux Benchmarks / Milestones   Phoronix   2019-11-10
Free Software Foundation Certifies Talos II With Respecting Your Freedom   Free Software   2019-11-07
Fedora 31 Won't Add An Official POWER Desktop Spin   Fedora   2019-10-08
AMD Dominated Q3 In Wooing Over Linux / Open-Source Fans   Phoronix   2019-10-03
CentOS 7.7 Released As The Last Stop Before CentOS 8.0   Red Hat   2019-09-17
Linux 5.4 Adds Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, Supports Some Newer ARM Laptops   Arm   2019-09-17
Fedora Is Beginning To Spin Workstation & Live Images For POWER   Fedora   2019-09-15
AMD EPYC 7002 & Ryzen 3000 Series Dominated Linux Interest During August   Phoronix   2019-09-01
Raptor Computing Systems Planning To Launch New ATX POWER9 Board With OpenCAPI   Hardware   2019-08-20
How Can AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 Series Be Even Better? Open-Source BIOS / Coreboot   AMD   2019-08-08
Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux   Google   2019-08-06
AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July   Phoronix   2019-08-01
Mining Monero Cryptocurrency On The Open-Source POWER9 Raptor Blackbird   Hardware   2019-07-31
TurboSched Is A New Linux Scheduler Focused On Maximizing Turbo Frequency Usage   Hardware   2019-07-29
Radeon Graphics, Zombieload & Kernel Changes Intrigued Open-Source Fans In H1-2019   Phoronix   2019-07-09
PCI Express 6.0 Announced For Release In 2021 With 64 GT/s Transfer Rates   Hardware   2019-06-18
IBM Begins Plumbing "Future" Processor Into GCC Compiler - POWER10?   GNU   2019-05-23
Raptor's Blackbird micro-ATX POWER9 System Is Ready To Take Flight This Week   Hardware   2019-05-19
KVM Changes Make It Into Linux 5.2 With Improvements For x86, POWER, ARM   Virtualization   2019-05-18
Additional Xeon Platinum 8280 Cascade Lake Benchmarks - See How Your Linux System Runs   Intel   2019-04-02
Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March   Phoronix   2019-04-01
Radeon VII & Linux 5.0 Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts In Q1   Free Software   2019-03-30
Linux 5.0, Radeon VII, Intel Iris Driver & Other Exciting Milestones In February   Phoronix   2019-02-28
Google Chrome/Chromium Begins Landing POWER PPC64LE Patches   Desktop   2019-02-27
Raptor Engineering Helping To Improve POWER Support In Wine, Eyes Hangover   WINE   2019-02-26
The New Features & Changes With The LLVM Clang 8.0 Compiler Stack   LLVM   2019-02-26
From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward To In 2019   Linux Kernel   2019-01-02
The Many Phoronix Test Suite Improvements In 2018 For Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2019-01-02
That's A Wrap For 2018 With 3,693 News Articles, 314 Linux Hardware Reviews/Benchmarks   Phoronix   2018-12-31
Linux CoC, Debian, Speck & Kernel Happenings Rounded Out Q4-2018   Free Software   2018-12-28
The Most Popular AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2018   AMD   2018-12-26
The Most Popular Intel Linux News & Reviews Of 2018   Intel   2018-12-25
Linux 4.21 Will Be Able To Read Hygon Dhyana CPU Temperatures, Adds PowerPC OCC   Hardware   2018-12-25
FreeBSD Had A Very Successful 2018: Performance Improvements, Better Hardware Support   BSD   2018-12-24
Linux Getting Driver Work To Support Tesla V100 NVLink GPUs On High-End POWER9 Servers   NVIDIA   2018-12-21
The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2018-12-20
Phoronix Test Suite 8.4.1 Released For Better BSD Support, RHEL7 Bug Workaround   Phoronix Test Suite   2018-12-09
Linux's Slowdown, Raptor's Talos II, Clear Linux & Other Dominating Topics This Month   Phoronix   2018-11-30
Phoronix Test Suite 8.4 Released For Advancing Open-Source Automated Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2018-11-26
Raptor Blackbird Micro-ATX POWER9 Motherboard Pre-Orders Open Up At $799 USD   Hardware   2018-11-23
Phoronix Test Suite 8.4 M3 Brings Improvements For POWER9, Colorful Text Graphs   Phoronix Test Suite   2018-11-20
It Looks Like The Raptor Blackbird Open-Source Motherboard Will Sell For Just Under $900   Hardware   2018-11-14
Hands On With The Most Open-Source, High-Performance System For 2018   Hardware   2018-11-05
The Many Interesting Changes & Features So Far For Linux 4.20 (Or Perhaps Linux 5.0)   Linux Kernel   2018-10-29
IBM Announces Deal To Acquire Red Hat At $34 Billion   Red Hat   2018-10-28
POWER9 On Linux Will See Faster Context Switching, Other Optimizations   Hardware   2018-10-28
System76 Thelio Systems Being Announced Next Week   Hardware   2018-10-25
KVM x86 Enabling Nested Virtualization By Default, Other Virtualization Work   Virtualization   2018-10-25
Raptor Computing Systems Is Working On Bringing Up Chrome's POWER Support   Free Software   2018-10-17
Raptor Computing Reveals More Details About Their Blackbird Low-Cost POWER9 Board   Hardware   2018-10-06
Raptor Announces "Blackbird" Micro-ATX, Low-Cost POWER9 Motherboard   Hardware   2018-10-04
A Look At The Features Coming With LLVM 7.0 & Clang 7.0   LLVM   2018-09-10
It Looks Like Raptor Is Gearing Up To Release A New Open-Source POWER System   Hardware   2018-08-30
IBM Scores More POWER Open-Source Performance Optimizations   Hardware   2018-08-19
POWER Changes On The Way To Linux 4.19 Include More Spectre Work   Hardware   2018-08-17
QEMU 3.0 Brings Spectre V4 Mitigation, OpenGL ES Support In SDL Front-End   Virtualization   2018-08-15
A 3.3x Performance Improvement For FLAC Audio Encoding On POWER 64-bit   Hardware   2018-07-20
VP9 & AV1 Have More Room To Improve For POWER & ARM Architectures   Multimedia   2018-07-11
Windows Comparisons, Linux 4.18, Wine & Alternate CPUs Were Very Popular In June   Phoronix   2018-07-01
Summit Supercomputer Launches With 200 PFLOPS Of Compute Power   Hardware   2018-06-08
The Most Affordable & Open-Source POWER9 System To Date Can Now Be Pre-Ordered   Hardware   2018-06-08
Linux 4.17 Lands Initial Spectre V4 "Speculative Store Bypass" For POWER CPUs   Linux Kernel   2018-05-22
Raptor Launching Talos II Lite POWER9 Computer System At A Lower Cost   Hardware   2018-05-16
Linux 4.17, Ryzen, Valve & Apple Looking For Kernel Devs Topped April   Phoronix   2018-05-01
POWER Updates For Linux 4.17 Drop POWER4 CPU Support   Hardware   2018-04-07