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Oracle unveils largest AI supercomputer with AMD chips
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Oracle has announced OCI Zettascale10, described as the world's largest AI supercomputer, featuring six times more GPUs than its 2024 predecessor. The company continues to rely on AMD chips for its superclusters despite Nvidia's industry dominance. This move aligns with Oracle's strategy to integrate AI directly with users' data wherever they operate.
Linux 6.18 enhances AMD EPYC Turin performance
The Linux 6.18 kernel introduces optimizations that boost performance on AMD's EPYC Turin processors by up to 10% in multi-threaded workloads compared to Linux 6.17. These improvements target AI, high-performance computing, and database tasks on the Zen 5-based chips. Benchmarks from Phoronix highlight gains in scheduling, memory management, and power efficiency.
New code enables VCE 1.0 video acceleration on AMDGPU driver
Developers have introduced new code that allows VCE 1.0 video acceleration to function on the AMDGPU driver for GCN 1.0 GPUs. This update targets older AMD graphics hardware in the Linux environment. The patches aim to enhance video encoding capabilities for these legacy cards.
Linux cache aware scheduling shows potential on AMD EPYC Turin
Recent benchmarks of Linux's proposed cache aware scheduling patches demonstrate significant performance improvements on AMD's EPYC Turin processors. The patches, developed by Intel engineers, aim to optimize task placement for better cache locality on multi-cache CPUs. Testing on a dual EPYC 9965 setup revealed promising results for heterogeneous server workloads.
Linux 6.18 DRM pull adds new drivers and Rust support
Linus Torvalds has pulled the Direct Rendering Manager updates for Linux kernel 6.18, introducing new open-source drivers and Rust integration for graphics hardware. The changes focus on enhancements for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA systems, alongside support for accelerators like Rocket and Tyr. DRM maintainer Dave Airlie highlighted the push toward Rust in the kernel's graphics subsystem.
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 to launch next week for $1299
AMD's Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card is set to arrive in retailers next week. The professional-grade GPU will retail for $1299 USD. This release targets AI and computing workloads.