Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power 10.0-2 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power 10.0 is released. Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power 10.0-2 new features The GNU C Library provides a POWER8 implementation for
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GLIBC patch accepted: strlen optimization for POWER8
Commit 1b045ee added a vectorized implementation of the main loop in strlen, improving the performance for long strings by approximately 200% on POWER8-based systems. Unfortunately, I had to use a few POWER8-only
Swift language ported to Linux on Power
Anton Blanchard announced in a recent blog post his initial port of Swift to Linux on Power. As you may know, Apple open sourced its new programming language a while
New Power Instruction Set Architecture 3.0 available
We have just published the new POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) version 3.0. This new ISA supports the next generation POWER processors and continues the evolution over the previous ISA
Anandtech thoroughly reviews the IBM POWER8 processor
Anandtech posted yesterday a very detailed review and performance evaluation of the POWER8 processor. The system reviewed and benchmarked is an IBM Power 822L, a 10-core POWER8 system with 128GB
New IBM Redbook published by my team
A new IBM Redbook named “Performance Optimization and Tuning Techniques for IBM Power Systems processors, including IBM POWER8” has been published by my team members. The book is a guide
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.0-7 released
An update release of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is available for download. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.0-7 bug fixes: The GNU C Library provides: Fixes for the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-1472/CVE-2015-1473, CVE-2015-1781, CVE-2013-7423 and CVE-2014-8121 .