Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > Kernel (Linux): Windows Assimilation, Wake-on-LAN, AMD and Intel Kernel (Linux): Windows Assimilation, Wake-on-LAN, AMD and Intel By Rianne Schestowitz Created 26/11/2020 - 7:11am Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 26th of November 2020 07:11:12 AM Filed under Linux [1] Tuxera First to Bring Network Bandwidth-Saving SMB Compression Feature to Linux Environments[2] Tuxera First to Bring Network Bandwidth-Saving SMB Compression Feature to Linux Environments[3] Tuxera, a world-leader in quality-assured storage management and networking software, announced that the company's SMB server implementation, Fusion File Share by Tuxera, now offers transparent compression to platforms outside of Microsoft Windows. Compression is being rapidly and widely adopted in the storage industry as a feature in memory hardware, file system implementations, and also networking protocols such as Microsoft's server messaging block technology (SMB). The ability to compress files inline during transfer can significantly reduce bandwidth and transfer time. Microsoft released the transparent compression feature to their SMB protocol specification in early 2019. However, Tuxera is the first to implement SMB compression outside of Microsoft Windows, bringing this highly in-demand feature to Linux environments in enterprises around the world. Wake-on-LAN [4] With Wake-on-LAN (WoL) it can be slightly easier to manage machines in-house. You can fire up the workstation and start the day?s compile jobs (to catch up with overnight work by the KDE community, say) while drinking an espresso downstairs and doomscrolling. [...] If all the administrative bits are in place, then the simple way to wake up a machine is wake <hostname>. This requires root, since it sends specially-crafted (broadcast) Ethernet packets, which isn?t something that regular users can do. AMD+SUSE Tackling Frequency Invariance For AMD EPYC 7002 CPUs - Phoronix[5] Thanks to work by AMD and SUSE engineers, the Linux kernel could soon be seeing frequency invariance support for EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors for yielding greater performance and power efficiency. Over the past year we have seen a lot of Linux kernel work for dealing with frequency invariance but to now that on the x86 side has been focused on Intel Xeon processors. Now through the cooperation of AMD with patches led by SUSE, frequency invariance is being worked on for the EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors. Intel Begins Landing Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver Ray-Tracing Support[6] This week marked the release of Vulkan 1.2.162 with the ray-tracing extensions now finalized. As such Intel's stellar open-source team has begun landing their work around Vulkan ray- tracing ahead of the Xe HPG hardware availability that will support this functionality. Back in October I wrote about Intel preparing their open-source driver support for Vulkan ray- tracing ahead of Xe HPG and now with the updated Vulkan spec out there they are able to push more of their work. Linux Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/144776 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/63 [2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tuxera-first-bring-network-bandwidth-234100569.html [3] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tuxera-first-to-bring-network-bandwidth-saving-smb-compression- feature-to-linux-environments-301180839.html [4] https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2020/11/25/wake.html [5] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-EPYC-Rome-Freq-Invariance [6] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Vulkan-RT-Compiler-Lands.