Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 26, 2016 @02:26PM from the bleeding-edge-is-the-leading-edge dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Linux 4.6-rc1 kernel has been released. New to the Linux 4.6 kernel are a significant number of new features including NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 open-source 3D support when using the closed-source firmware files, Dell XPS 13 Skylake laptop support, a fix for laptops that were limiting their own performance due to incorrectly thinking they were overheating, AHCI runtime power management support, Intel graphics power management features enabled by default, a new file-system (OrangeFS), and a range of other improvements.

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OrangeFS by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-26 14:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Developers provided performance charts against AppleFS in the release notes, but they found it wasn't comparing the same thing.
1. Re:OrangeFS by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-26 15:00 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  From a glance at their website, I think the keyword is MPI-IO. Picture a weather simulation consisting of 10,000 processes that work together in parallel, where all of them perform semirandom input/output using the same files. That's gonna be difficult to do right with conventional filesystems...