Benchmarks

wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules
WolfSSL is an embedded SSl/TLS library designed for a range of use-cases and available as open-source under the GNU GPLv2. WolfSSL was recently packaged and added to Fedora Linux since Netatalk began building against wolfSSL and in the longer-term plan...
2024-09-10 20:11
CentOS Stream 10 Showing Nice Performance Uplift In Early Benchmarks On AmpereOne
As part of the ongoing AmpereOne testing at Phoronix with the 192-core AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor, I've been working on several different Linux distribution benchmarks with this Supermicro AmpereOne server. That comparison in full should be ...
2024-09-10 16:00
Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues
Intel today as part of their "Patch Tuesday" released new CPU microcode for recent generation Core and Xeon processors. Two security updates were made along with fixing a handful of functional issues...
2024-09-10 14:25
GNU C Library Tuning For AArch64 Helps Memset Performance By ~24%
A patch merged yesterday to the GNU C Library (glibc) codebase can help the memset() function's performance by 24% as measured on an Arm Neoverse-N1 core...
2024-09-10 13:00
Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Finally Expose GPU Package Temperature
With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel the Intel graphics driver will finally be able to report GPU fan speeds. Another long sought feature is also on the way for this open-source Linux driver: GPU package temperature reporting for Intel discrete GPUs...
2024-09-10 12:24
AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program
AlmaLinux to further distinguish itself from other RHEL-based Linux distributions has announced a Certification Special Interest Group (SIG) and out of that is coming a AlmaLinux Hardware Certification Program...
2024-09-10 11:27
Canonical Working To Package GraalVM For Ubuntu Linux
While OpenJDK Java is available via the Ubuntu package archive and the go-to JVM on Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is working to package up Oracle's GraalVM as another option for enhancing the Java stack on Ubuntu...
2024-09-10 10:42
Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers
Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a l...
2024-09-10 08:55
Intel Preps Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" For Standardized Storage LEDs
Intel engineers have been working on enabling NPEM for Linux: Native PCIe Enclosure Management as a means of standardized storage LED indicators...
2024-09-10 07:00
Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed
Following Canonical's decision to enable frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and then they ended up adding a number of performance tools to ship by default with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, for Ubuntu 24.10 a late change is adding another tool to be ins...
2024-09-10 06:32