#performancecomputing

System76 is indeed a company that specializes in Linux-based computers with a focus on performance, privacy, and open-source software. Let me provide you with a more detailed overview of their offerings:

Hardware Options

System76 offers a range of products including: Laptops:

Various models catering to different needs, from lightweight options with great battery life to high-performance machines1.

Latest processors, GPUs, memory, and storage options available1.

Desktops:

The Thelio line of desktops, which are designed and manufactured in Denver, Colorado4.

Options range from starter desktops to high-performance workstations4.

Software and Firmware

Pop!_OS:

System76's custom Linux distribution, optimized for their hardware1.

Focuses on privacy (collects no user data) and offers full-disk encryption by default1.

Features like auto-tiling windows and customizable workspaces for improved productivity14.

Open Firmware:

Coreboot-based System76 Open Firmware for enhanced security and faster boot times1.

Allows users to make adjustments to keyboard and LEDs through the System76 Keyboard Configurator app1.

Key Features

Customization:

Hardware is highly configurable, allowing users to choose processors, RAM, storage, and graphics options14.

Repairability:

System76 supports users' right to repair, allowing for battery replacement, thermal paste reapplication, and other maintenance without voiding the warranty1.

US Manufacturing:

Some components, including desktops and keyboards, are manufactured in-house in the US for quality control4.

Support:

Known for excellent customer support, with the ability to reach human representatives3

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Pricing and Value

While System76 computers may be priced higher than some mainstream options, they offer:

Specialized Linux compatibility

Privacy-focused design

High-quality, customizable hardware

Strong support for open-source principles

Amazon EC2 Instances

Utilize the new Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g instances to run your general-purpose and compute-intensive tasks sustainably. Today Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g instances are now widely available.

AWS C8g

High-performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving are suited for AWS Graviton4-based C8g instanc

AWS M8g

M8g instances, which are also Graviton4-based, offer the best cost-performance for workloads with a generic purpose. Applications like gaming servers, microservices, application servers, mid-size data storage, and caching fleets are all well suited for M8g instances.

Let’s now have a look at some of the enhancements it has implemented in these two cases. With three times as many vCPUs (up to 48xl), three times as much memory (up to 384GB for C8g and up to 768GB for M8g), seventy-five percent more memory bandwidth, and twice as much L2 cache as comparable 7g instances, C8g and M8g instances offer higher instance sizes. This allows processing larger data sets, increasing workloads, speeding up results turnaround, and lowering TCO.

These instances have up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and 40 Gbps Amazon EBS capacity, compared to Graviton3-based instances’ 30 Gbps and 20 Gbps. C8g and M8g instances, like R8g instances, have two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl and metal-48xl). You can deploy workloads that gain from direct access to real resources and appropriately scale your instances.

C8g AWS

Important things to know

With pointer authentication capability, separate caches for each virtual CPU, and always-on memory encryption, AWS Graviton4 processors provide improved security.

The foundation of these instances is the AWS Nitro System, a vast array of building blocks that assigns specialized hardware and software to handle many of the conventional virtualization tasks. It reduces virtualization overhead by providing great performance, high availability, and excellent security.

Applications written in popular programming languages such as C/C++, Rust, Go, Java, Python,.NET Core, Node.js, Ruby, and PHP, as well as containerized and microservices-based applications like those running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), are ideally suited for the C8g and M8g instances.

Available right now

The US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Regions currently offer C8g and M8g instances. With Amazon EC2, as usual, you only pay for the resources you utilize. See Amazon EC2 Pricing for additional details. To assist you in moving your applications to Graviton instance types, have a look at the assortment of AWS Graviton resources.