v1.1.0

Highlights

• Cassandra with Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) hardware-accelerated compression
• Leveraging Intel AMX acceleration with TensorFlow for different AI Use-Cases such as NLP (using BERT-Large), Graph Neural Networks (using RGAT) and Computer Vision (using ResNet50 v1.5)
• Fortio-Envoy Optimization guide: best known practices to optimize Envoy TCP proxy performance
• Scikit-learn Optimization guide: best practices for optimal performance in machine learning workflows that use the scikit-learn Python library
• zlib-accel: Transparent Hardware-Accelerated Compression for zlib on Intel® Xeon® Processors
• HPC: Recipe for SIMULIA PowerFLOW application on Intel® Xeon® 6 with P-Cores

What's Changed

• Fix predicate for updating global flag by @GaneshRapolu in #26
• Cassandra QAT update optimization by @ssherman8 in #25
• Update HPC README.md by @NadyaTen in #27
• Add AMX with TensorFlow quick-start guides and AI use-case examples by @othakkar in #28
• Add Fortio-Envoy optimization guide by @vaibhavk2 in #29
• Add summary page for zlib-accel by @missa-prime in #33
• Add guide for scikit-learn by @david-cortes-intel in #31
• Update scikit-learn README.md to fix github pages rendering issue. by @rsiyer-intel in #35

New Contributors

• @GaneshRapolu made their first contribution in #26
• @ssherman8 made their first contribution in #25
• @othakkar made their first contribution in #28
• @vaibhavk2 made their first contribution in #29
• @missa-prime made their first contribution in #33
• @david-cortes-intel made their first contribution in #31

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

v1.0.0

Highlights

• HPC Workloads: Tuning and optimization guidelines for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications on Intel Xeon 6 with P-Cores
• Apache Kafka Guide: Best known practices to optimize performance on Intel Xeon CPUs
• Gen-over-gen Performance Data for TPC-DS Spark and Gluten in Google Cloud
• Similarity Search optimization guide for Redis
• Software Scaling principles guide
• Choosing the right performance monitoring and profiling tools used in Optimization work

What's Changed

• Add HPC Workloads Guide by @NadyaTen in #11
• Update README files to enhance documentation for performance tools and add gProfiler details by @harp-intel in #12
• Fix link in CONTRIBUTING.md by @jasukhar in #14
• Feat: Adding blank issue form template by @rsiyer-intel in #15
• Adding document change request template by @rsiyer-intel in #16
• Feat: Adding issue templates for reporting performance issues, requesting new recipes and for generic questions by @rsiyer-intel in #17
• Add software scaling document by @ak-intel in #19
• Kafka BKM by @matt-welch in #21
• Kafka bkm update by @matt-welch in #23
• Add gen-over-gen performance data for TPC-DS by @adgubrud in #22
• create _config.yml for github pages by @rsiyer-intel in #24
• Add Similarity Search optimization guides by @napetrov in #20
• Add tool usage scenarios and choosing the right tool by @harp-intel in #13

New Contributors

• @NadyaTen made their first contribution in #11
• @jasukhar made their first contribution in #14
• @rsiyer-intel made their first contribution in #15
• @ak-intel made their first contribution in #19
• @matt-welch made their first contribution in #21
• @adgubrud made their first contribution in #22
• @napetrov made their first contribution in #20

Full Changelog: https://github.com/intel/optimization-zone/commits/v1.0.0