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GCC 4.8 Compiler On AMD's Eight-Core Piledriver

Tuesday, 30 October 2012 06:30 Phoronix

This month from CPUs based upon AMD's new Piledriver micro-architecture I have delivered results of compiler tuning on AMD's Open64 compiler as well as GCC bdver2 tuning. That initial testing from an AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core processor didn't show any big boost out of the "bdver2" target with the new BMI/TBM/F16C/FMA3...

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Calxeda ECX-1000 Benchmarks vs. Intel Atom, TI OMAP4

Thursday, 25 October 2012 06:47 Phoronix

Last week I began delivering benchmarks of the low-power yet massively scalable Calxeda EnergyCore ECX-1000 ARM Server and followed the initial tests with some ARM compiler benchmarks and other benchmarks from this 5-Watt Linux Server. In this article is what many Phoronix readers have been waiting for: comparing Calxeda's quad-core...

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Dell Donates Concept ARM Server to the ASF

Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:19 The H

Dell and Calxeda have donated a concept ARM-based server to the Apache Software Foundation. With the server, ASF developers can build and test software like Hadoop, Cassandra and the Apache Server on ARM architecture...

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AMD: Low Power 'Kabini' APUs on Track for 2013 Launch

Friday, 19 October 2012 09:07 ZDNet

Despite a disappointing fourth quarter and having to shed 15 percent of its workforce, AMD is still on track to deliver its new low power "Kabini" APU featuring 28-nanometer "Jaguar" cores during the first half of next year.

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