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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 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: Meike Chabowski

May 14, 2020 6:36 am

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Concurrency II: Concurrently Readable Structures

This article has been contributed by William Brown, Senior Software Developer at SUSE. Disclaimer: Blog articles are not part of the official SUSE documentation. They are contributed voluntarily by SUSE’s employees and by third parties. All information found in these article has been compiled with utmost attention to detail. However, this does not […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

May 12, 2020 5:36 pm

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Concurrency I: Types of Concurrency

This article has been contributed by William Brown, Senior Software Developer at SUSE. Disclaimer: Blog articles are not part of the official SUSE documentation. They are contributed voluntarily by SUSE’s employees and by third parties. All information found in these article has been compiled with utmost attention to detail. However, this does not […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

December 3, 2019 9:34 am

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Epic Performance with New Tuning Guide – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on AMD EPYC* 7002 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 and replaced the previous Opteron server family with the introduction of the Zen microarchitecture for the mainstream market.   2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors With the second iteration of the EPYC […]

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By: Brent Smithurst

October 26, 2018 8:29 pm

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Cloud Foundry Performance: Containerized vs. VM

At the recent Cloud Foundry Summit EU, Jeff Hobbs (Director of Engineering) and Vlad Iovanov (Senior Engineer) of SUSE demonstrated the performance differences between Cloud Foundry running in containers on Kubernetes (our SUSE Cloud Application Platform) and Cloud Foundry running in virtual machines (via BOSH). Both comparisons are done on Google Cloud (GKE for containerized […]

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By: Michael Tabron

August 13, 2018 3:42 pm

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With SAP HANA Benchmark comparisons, sometimes “the devil is in the details”

People often use the expression “the devil is in the details” when something looks good on the surface but when you look closer, you see hidden tricks or “a catch” that make it less attractive. Usually it’s a warning to pay close attention to details that might cause an undesirable result. Until […]

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By: Michael Tabron

July 17, 2017 8:58 am

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Transform Your SAP Infrastructure like a Chameleon: Part 2

In my last blog I talked about how the chameleon has a natural ability to change the structure of its skin to change colors in just seconds. It's not doing this to blend in but to adapt to changes in its environment, attract a mate, react to a rival, or just to express emotions. Similarly […]

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