v1.2.0

Highlights

• NUMA: best practices, a server-side Java case study, and NUMA topology of Intel® Xeon® 6 cloud instances on AWS and Google Cloud
• Kubernetes: NUMA-aware placement of pods with NRI resource policies (Topology-aware and Balloons)
• vLLM Optimization guide: best known practices to deploy and tune vLLM for CPU inference on Intel® Xeon® processors, with an agent skill for deployment, tuning and benchmarking
• Gradient Boosting Inference Optimization guide: accelerating XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost inference with oneDAL on Intel® processors
• NumPy Optimization guide: best practices for optimal NumPy performance with Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL)
• R Optimization guide: best practices for optimal performance in data preparation, model fitting and model serving workflows in the R language
• NGINX with Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) hardware-accelerated compression and TLS handshake offload
• Intel® Priority Core Turbo (PCT): Getting Started guide for GPU-accelerated AI inference
• Hardware Prefetch Controls for Intel® E-Cores
• Common system configuration recommendations: Energy Performance Bias (EPB) and Energy Performance Preference (EPP), CPU frequency scaling, Hyper-Threading and Low Power Efficient Cores (LPE cores)

What's Changed

• Add guide for R by @david-cortes-intel in #38
• First Version of Intel PCT Getting Started by @louie-tsai in #37
• Add vLLM optimization guide and skill by @lucasmelogithub in #32
• Fix link in R readme by @jasukhar in #45
• Hardware Prefetch Tuning for E-Cores v2 by @IntelSwede in #43
• Add a chapter about common performance recommendations by @Vika-F in #40
• Add NUMA directory with Java server-side case study by @dianef in #42
• Updating Table of content by @jasukhar in #46
• Added the material for XGBoost optimization by @bbhattar in #30
• Add NumPy optimization guide by @vchamarthi in #36
• Small corrections on file names in R guide by @david-cortes-intel in #49
• Update _config.yml by @jasukhar in #47
• Corrections about MKL setup in R guide by @david-cortes-intel in #50
• Add optimizing Kubernetes applications and services with NRI resource policies by @askervin in #51
• Fix typo in R guide by @david-cortes-intel in #52
• Nginx QAT by @ssherman8 in #48
• More updates for MKL installations by @david-cortes-intel in #53
• Add NUMA aware instance creation notes for CSPs by @ssherman8 in #54

New Contributors

• @louie-tsai made their first contribution in #37
• @IntelSwede made their first contribution in #43
• @Vika-F made their first contribution in #40
• @dianef made their first contribution in #42
• @bbhattar made their first contribution in #30
• @vchamarthi made their first contribution in #36
• @askervin made their first contribution in #51

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0