AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2 SoC FPGA combines dual-core Cortex-A72 and dual-core Cortex-R5F processors with high-end FPGA fabric with up to 3.2 million logic cells and CXL 3.1 (Compute Express Link), PCIe Gen6, and DDR5/LPDDR5X high-bandwidth interfaces for data center, communication equipment, test & measurement, and aerospace & defense data-intensive applications. AMD Versal Premium Gen2 specifications: CPU cores Dual-core Arm Cortex-A72 application core, 48 KB/32 KB L1 Cache w/ parity & ECC; 1 MB L2 Cache w/ ECC Dual-core Arm Cortex R5F, 32 KB/32 KB L1 Cache, and 256 KB TCM w/ECC Memory – 256MB on-chip with ECC FPGA fabric System Logic Cells – Up to 3,273,480 LUTs – Up to 1,496,448 DSP Engines – Up to 7,616 Interfaces connected to CPU cores 2x Ethernet 2x UART, 2x SPI, 2x I2C 2x CAN-FD 1x USB 2.0 FPGA memory, interfaces, I/Os, and transceivers Up to 327 Mbit memory @ 273 [...]
Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes...
Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory. It will take some time before there is any reasonable Linux support on the M4 hardware with Asahi Linux, but for those curious about how the M4 Mac Mini with macOS compares to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core CPUs under Linux, here are some preliminary benchmarks.
Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...
Vcc Labs’ Nova is a tiny, open-source hardware Raspberry Pi RP2040 development board with a USB-C port, a 70 (7×10) addressable RGB LED matrix, and two 12-pin GPIO headers for expansion. It can be used for wearables, mini-displays, interactive art, fun games, and more. Nova specifications: MCU – Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller @ up to 133 MHz with 264KB SRAM Storage – 2MB QSPI flash “Display” – 7×10 WS2812 addressable RGB LEDs, each measuring just 1x1mm USB – USB Type-C port for power, data, and programming Expansion – 2x 12-pin header with 20x GPIO, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 2x UART, 4x ADC, Vin, 5V, 3.3V, and GND Misc – Reset and BOOT buttons Power Supply 5V via USB-C port 7V to 18V via Vin pin Power consumption – 9 Watts with all LEDs at full brightness Dimensions – 30.48 x 20.32 mm (PCB only) Weight – 4.76 grams [...]
Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Early access pricing and more details on this quad-core StarFive JH7110 powered mainboard for the Framework 13 have now been announced...
Effective infrastructure management is crucial for organizations using Docker Hub. Without a clear understanding of resource consumption, unexpected usage can emerge and skyrocket. This is particularly true if pulls and storage needs are not budgeted and forecasted correctly. By implementing proactive post controls and monitoring usage patterns, development teams can sustain their Docker Hub usage while keeping expenses under control.
To support these goals, we’ve introduced new Docker Hub Usage dashboards, offering organizations the ability to access and analyze their usage patterns for storage and pulls.
Docker Hub’s Usage dashboards put you in control, giving visibility into every pull and image your Docker systems request. Each pull and cache becomes a deliberate choice — not a random event — so you can make every byte count. With clear insights into what’s happening and why, you can design more efficient, optimized systems.
Reclaim control and manage technical resources by kicking bad habits
Figure 1: Docker Hub Usage dashboards.
The Docker Hub Usage dashboards (Figure 1) provide valuable insights, allowing teams to track peaks and valleys, detect high usage periods, and identify the images and repositories driving the most consumption. This visibility not only aids in managing usage but also strengthens continuous improvement efforts across your software supply chain, helping teams build applications more efficiently and sustainably.
This information helps development teams to stay on top of challenges, such as:
Redundant pulls and misconfigured repositories: Thesecan quickly and quietly drive up technical expenses while falling out of scope of the most relevant or critical use cases. Docker Hub’s Usage dashboards can help development teams identify patterns and optimize accordingly. They let you view usage trends across IPs and users as well, which helps with pinpointing high consumption areas and ensuring accountability in an organization when it comes to resource management.
Poor caching management: Repository insights and image tagging helps customers assess internal usage patterns, such as frequently accessed images, where there might be an opportunity to improve caching. With proper governance models, organizations can also establish policies and processes that reduce the variability of resource usage as a whole. This goal goes beyond keeping track of seasonality usage patterns to help you design more predictable usage patterns so you can budget accordingly.
Accidental automation: Accidental automated system activities can really hurt your usage. Let’s say you are using a CI/CD pipeline or automated scripts configured to pull images more often than they should. They may pull on every build instead of the actual version change, for example.
Usage dashboards can help you identify these inefficiencies by showing detailed pull data associated with automated tooling. This information can help your teams quickly identify and adjust misconfigured systems, fine-tune automations to only pull when needed, and ultimately focus on the most relevant use cases for your organization, avoiding accidental overuse of resources:
Figure 2: Details from the Usage dashboards.
Docker Hub’s Usage dashboards offer a comprehensive view of your usage data, including downloadable CSV reports that include metrics such as pull counts, repository names, IP addresses, and version checks (Figure 2). This granular approach allows your organization to gain valuable insights and trend data to help optimize your team’s workflows and inform policies.
Integrate robust operational principles into your development pipeline by leveraging these data-driven reports and maintain control over resource consumption and operational efficiency with Docker Hub.
Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now there's a notable user-space user ready to go: the GNU C Library "glibc" support was merged...
The Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found in various Xeon SKUs since Sapphire Rapids can be of big benefit to Linux servers/workstations with a Linux kernel patch series that has been in the works to provide Zswap IAA compress batching...
Hey community, we’re excited to share that we’re speaking at a joint webinar, “8 Business Solutions Built with LoRaWAN and Low-Code IoT Platform,” hosted by Blynk and The Things Industries. Join us on Thursday, November 21st, at 10:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM CET for the insightful webinar, where you can explore how to combine LoRaWAN-enabled hardware with Blynk’s low-code IoT platform can help you quickly launch and scale IoT solutions that are practical, powerful, and easy to manage.
Why You Should Attend
Building an IoT solution doesn’t have to be complex. This webinar offers a step-by-step look into using off-the-shelf LoRaWAN hardware including our SenseCAP LoRaWAN devices (read on to explore), paired with Blynk’s intuitive platform, to create impactful IoT solutions without heavy coding or lengthy development time. Whether you’re an IoT beginner or looking to expand your current deployments, this session has everything you need to set your IoT solutions up for long-term success.
What You’ll Learn
In just one hour, you’ll gain insights from industry experts on:
Quickly deploy and manage IoT solutions using best-in-class LoRaWAN hardware.
Seamlessly provision and manage devices with Blynk’s low-code platform for faster setup and efficient data handling.
Visualize data through no-code web and mobile dashboards to easily monitor and control your devices.
Explore 8 game-changing IoT Solutions which are designed to solve specific business challenges, offering ready-to-deploy options that can scale as your business grows
This session is designed to empower you to take your IoT deployments from prototyping to enterprise scale effortlessly.
Discover 8 Game-Changing IoT Solutions for Business
The hosts, Pavlo and Felix together with 8 industry leaders from Thermokon Sensortechnik GmbH, Pepperl+Fuchs Group, Miromico, Seeed Studio, MOKO SMART, Milesight IoT, ATIM Radiocommunication, and Blues, will introduce eight proven IoT applications across various industries. Each solution is designed to solve a specific business challenge, offering ready-to-deploy options that can scale as your business grows. Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll explore:
Smart heating for hotels
Warehouse & production site solutions
Building Management
People Counting
Personnel safety on construction site
Water leak detection
Smart metering
Refrigerator fleet monitoring
During the webinar, our BD manager Violet Su will present our latest LoRaWAN solution with built-in Vision AI capabilities for efficient meter reading, person detection, people counting, object detection, and more.
Platform engineering has changed how organizations develop, deploy and manage applications by streamlining processes, improving efficiencies and fostering collaboration. As organizations now look to integrate generative AI (gen AI) as quickly and as often as possible - platform engineering is proving to be critical to setting organizations up for success in adopting and implementing these groundbreaking new technologies.Our inaugural State of Platform Engineering in the Age of AI report examines trends, challenges and best practices from industry practitioners to help us to better understand h
For enterprise IT teams, complexity often grows faster than the time, budget and expertise on hand to manage them. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 (RHEL), the newest version of our industry-leading operating system, is for organizations and people wrestling with those growing complexities. RHEL 9.5 tames complexity across your IT organization with new features that reduce developer delays, amplify the abilities of sysadmins, protect essential workloads and simplify operational security.Equip developers to ship fasterNearly every organization struggles to give developers what they need to create t
Congratulations to Docling for climbing the charts to be one of GitHub’s top repos of the month!Organizations have lots of data, from their intellectual property and knowledge to marketing, sales and customer data to operations policies and procedures and much more. The challenge isn’t collecting the data or generating documents; it’s extracting meaningful insights from it. Actionable insights can lead to better customer service, faster time-to-customer value, smoother operations and so. Generative AI (gen AI) promises to bridge this gap, turning the mountain of organizational data into
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated clusters on Google Cloud now support Workload Identity Federation (WIF) which is used to authenticate, authorize and access Google Cloud resources without the need for static credentials. This allows OpenShift Dedicated clusters to be deployed with short-lived, least privilege access credentials, reducing the need for maintenance and the security burden associated with the identity and access management (IAM) service account keys.This article gives a short overview of Google CloudWIF and explains how it helps overcome the challenges around the use of long-lived cred
The NVIDIA MLX5 driver for NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 network adapters is preparing to introduce a new Data Direct Placement "DDP" feature with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...
The latest release of Raspberry Pi OS includes an all-new, native panel plugin for Raspberry Pi Connect, our secure remote access solution that allows you to connect to your Raspberry Pi desktop and command line directly from your web browser.
By default, Raspberry Pi Connect will be installed but disabled, only becoming active for your current user if you choose ‘Turn On Raspberry Pi Connect’ from the menu bar, or by running rpi-connect on from the terminal.
If this is your first time trying the service, using the menu bar will open your browser to sign up for a free Raspberry Pi Connect account; alternatively, you can run rpi-connect signin from the terminal to print a unique URL that you can open on any device you like. Once signed up and signed in, you can then connect to your device either via screen sharing (if you’re using Raspberry Pi desktop) or via remote shell from your web browser on any computer.
You can now stop and disable the service for your current user by choosing ‘Turn Off Raspberry Pi Connect’ or running rpi-connect off from the terminal.
With the latest release of 2.1.0 (available via software update), we now include a new rpi-connect doctor command that runs a series of connectivity tests to check the service can establish connections properly. We make every effort to ensure you can connect to your device without having to make any networking changes or open ports in your firewall — but if you’re having issues, run the command like so:
$ rpi-connect doctor
✓ Communication with Raspberry Pi Connect API
✓ Authentication with Raspberry Pi Connect API
✓ Peer-to-peer connection candidate via STUN
✓ Peer-to-peer connection candidate via TURN
Full documentation for Raspberry Pi Connect can be found on our website, or via man rpi-connect in the terminal when installed on your device.
Updates on updates
We’ve heard from lots of users about the features they’d most like to see next, and we’ve tried to prioritise the things that will bring the largest improvements in functionality to the largest number of users. Keep an eye on this blog to see our next updates.
As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write performance and so far has been extended to work across EXT4, Btrfs, and XFS file-systems...
The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system...
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