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Intel Updates QAT Zstd Plugin For Accelerating Zstandard Compression
Released on Sunday night was a new version of the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) Zstd plug-in for accelerating Zstandard compression with QAT-enabled adapters and modern Xeon Scalable processors sporting QAT accelerators.
Released on Sunday night was a new version of the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) Zstd plug-in for accelerating Zstandard compression with QAT-enabled adapters and modern Xeon Scalable processors sporting QAT accelerators. The QAT Zstd Plugin v0.2 brings an RPM SPEC file to make it easier to build RPMs of this plug-in for RHEL/Fedora based Linux distributions, an ASB "Auto Select Best" QAT compression mode is now enabled by default, and there are a few minor bug fixes. All of the new commits making up the QAT Zstd Plugin v0.2 release were upstreamed to the plug-ins public GitHub repository just yesterday.
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