… As the FRED benchmarks showed there can be nice gains for I/O tasks including various database software, in-memory key-value stores, networking applications, digital signal processing and digital audio processing applications, some graphics/gaming software, and much more. …
… Cache Aware Scheduling has been led by Intel software engineers for more than one year and has shown significant benefits on at least modern Intel and AMD CPUs , especially for sever class processors with more cores and bigger caches as well as the demanding workloads that can benefit from enhanced… …
… While said to be launching 1 June, unlike previous Xeon launches, we still haven't seen any hardware in the lab for review. This is currently not clear how widespread Xeon 6+ availability will be in the industry or if/when we send up seeing any Xeon 6+ review hardware. …
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… May was exciting on both the hardware and Linux software fronts from the NVIDIA Vera CPU being exciting to benchmark to a lot of varied open-source activity on the software side. …
… Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel … …