Tachyum running Linux and applications with 64KB pages on FPGA

Tachyum said it has successfully achieved the desired performance and stability of the Linux operating system and applications running as part of QEMU emulations and will expand all testing and optimization processes of its Prodigy software distribution to 64KB page size on the FPGA prototype. Tachyum first announced its intentions to move to 64KB page size as the default of its Prodigy software distribution – a completely integrated software stack and package available to early adopters and customers as a pre-installed image as part of beta testing – in June. After completing testing of Linux 6.8 and applications in QEMU software emulation, Tachyum’s move to the 64KB page size is expected to yield up to 10-15% better performance than 4KB pages depending on the application. 4KB support is now only supported for special configurations and will be deprecated in Prodigy 2. “For decades, the default translation page size on most CPU architectures was 4KB,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum. “With the amount of data being processed and with application sizes growing, adhering to 4KB size leads to increasingly larger overhead. For increased efficiency, Tachyum decided to make 64KB page size the default in its offerings. This successful transition will ensure that the performance of Prodigy’s software distribution is optimized to meet applications’ needs.” ...