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By: Meike Chabowski

September 5, 2023 3:02 pm

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Getting granular on GCC 12

Once again, experts from our SUSE toolchain development team (Jan Hubička, Michael Matz, Richard Biener) led by Martin Jambor have joined forces with Brent Hollingsworth from AMD, to publish a new SUSE Best Practices guide. The document "Advanced Optimization and New Capabilities of GCC 12" provides a detailed overview of the most current GNU […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

July 17, 2023 1:43 pm

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New tuning guide: Optimizing Linux for AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Processors

EPYC is AMD’s flagship mainstream server microprocessors and supports 1-way and 2-way multiprocessing. The first generation was originally announced back in May 2017: At time being, it replaced the previous Opteron server family with the introduction of the Zen microarchitecture for the mainstream market. 4nd Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors With the fourth iteration of […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

March 22, 2021 1:49 pm

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Compiler in the News: Advanced Optimization and New Capabilities of GCC 10

My colleague Martin Jambor has joined forces with Jan Hubička, Martin Liška, Richard Biener, all experts from our SUSE Labs and toolchain development team as well, and Brent Hollingsworth from AMD, to write a new SUSE Best Practices document about the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 10. Now we are happy to […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

March 18, 2021 10:15 pm

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“March to Milan”: New performance tuning guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on AMD EPYC* 7003 Series processors

On March 15th, AMD released their next generation AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series of processors, known under the code name "Milan" during the development phase. The new processors provide outstanding performance across a wide spectrum of industry standard applications. Whether on bare metal or Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), they power solutions in the Cloud, […]

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By: Jose Betancourt

September 25, 2019 6:12 pm

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AMD and SUSE – world records with a great ecosystem of partners

Recently, AMD announced its new EPYCTM  7002 Series Processors targeted at data center workloads. The processors, according to AMD, “feature up to 64 ‘Zen 2’ cores and deliver performance leadership across a broad number of enterprise, cloud, and high performance computing (HPC) workloads.”      As part of […]

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By: Adam Spiers

September 18, 2019 11:37 am

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Improving trust in the cloud with OpenStack and AMD SEV

This post contains an exciting announcement, but first I need to provide some context! Ever heard that joke "the cloud is just someone else's computer"? Of course it's a gross over-simplification, but there's more than a grain of truth in it. And that raises the question: if your applications are running in someone else's […]

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