# General Discussion **URL:** https://community.amperecomputing.com/c/discussion/7.md [Latest](https://community.amperecomputing.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.amperecomputing.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.amperecomputing.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the General Discussion category](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/about-the-general-discussion-category/13)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0
--- ## [Asrock ALTRAD8UD-1L2T - No USB and faulty RAM controller](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/asrock-altrad8ud-1l2t-no-usb-and-faulty-ram-controller/3480)
**Author:** [@palladio](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/palladio)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/asrock-altrad8ud-1l2t-no-usb-and-faulty-ram-controller/3480 "2026-09-27T16:51:27Z")
Hello, I recently purchased the MoBo from a chinese reseller (Alibaba, I am in Spain is difficult to get any other stuff as fast) - at my first boot with 256GB of RDIMM memory was completely recognized by the system. The… --- ## [Start with newly built system based on ALTRAD8UD-1L2T - no VGA output](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/start-with-newly-built-system-based-on-altrad8ud-1l2t-no-vga-output/3188)
**Author:** [@ull](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/ull)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/start-with-newly-built-system-based-on-altrad8ud-1l2t-no-vga-output/3188 "2026-09-11T01:53:37Z")
Hey :waving\_hand: I have an issue with a newly built system and would be happy to get some pointers on how to diagnose it. So I tried to build my first Ampere-based system, but cannot boot it (yet): After pressing the … --- ## [Kubeflow is Officially CNCF Graduated!](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/kubeflow-is-officially-cncf-graduated/3478)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/kubeflow-is-officially-cncf-graduated/3478 "2026-09-10T19:55:53Z")
The CNCF has officially announced the graduation of Kubeflow, recognizing it as a mature, production-ready standard for cloud-native AI and machine learning operations on Kubernetes. This milestone confirms Kubeflow’s t… --- ## [Nvidia 3090 Card working, but boot times are really slow](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/nvidia-3090-card-working-but-boot-times-are-really-slow/3474)
**Author:** [@biozal](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/biozal)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/nvidia-3090-card-working-but-boot-times-are-really-slow/3474 "2026-09-08T16:04:49Z")
Just wanted people to know took a day but finally got an ADLink Developer Board to boot with a Nvidia Geforce 3090 Card. I have a 1500 Watt Power Supply in the machine. I couldn’t get Ubuntu 26.04 to install something … --- ## [PCIe errata and GPU patches](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/pcie-errata-and-gpu-patches/3466)
**Author:** [@dgilmore](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/dgilmore)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2026, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/pcie-errata-and-gpu-patches/3466 "2026-08-29T22:41:48Z")
There have been patches floating around for a while now to ensure that GPUs work; the current approach, AFAIK, is not upstreamable and was rejected. When rebasing them onto Linux 7.1.9, I asked Claude to refactor to make… --- ## [Speed up Ampere Altra boot time](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/speed-up-ampere-altra-boot-time/3460)
**Author:** [@elahav](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/elahav)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/speed-up-ampere-altra-boot-time/3460 "2026-08-27T17:29:24Z")
I’m using an Ampere Altra as a QNX kernel development system. The board works great, but boot times are atrocious, which is not great for kernel development. It takes a couple of minutes for the firmware to do whatever i… --- ## [ThinLinc Server ARM64 prototype looking for Ampere Altra / AmpereOne testers](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/thinlinc-server-arm64-prototype-looking-for-ampere-altra-ampereone-testers/3472)
**Author:** [@jeanz](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/jeanz)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/thinlinc-server-arm64-prototype-looking-for-ampere-altra-ampereone-testers/3472 "2026-08-24T12:54:51Z")
Hello! We are Cendio, behind ThinLinc (Linux remote desktop / multi user VDI). ThinLinc Server has historically been x86 only. We now have an ARM64 prototype. It is not GA, and it is not in the current 4.22.0 release. … --- ## [Asrock AMPONE8D-2T/BCM Bundle fails with 8D](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/asrock-ampone8d-2t-bcm-bundle-fails-with-8d/3459)
**Author:** [@Morgan](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Morgan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2026, 9:23am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/asrock-ampone8d-2t-bcm-bundle-fails-with-8d/3459 "2026-08-12T09:23:56Z")
Works with 4 (Swapped other 4), 2, and 1 (in A1 or E1) Never seen SOL output Standoffs removed? DIMMs warm to touch. Purchased March 30! --- ## [I got AmpereOne AsRock Rack bundle and no CPU reading](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/i-got-ampereone-asrock-rack-bundle-and-no-cpu-reading/3282)
**Author:** [@gregkonush](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/gregkonush)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/i-got-ampereone-asrock-rack-bundle-and-no-cpu-reading/3282 "2026-08-03T14:57:19Z")
Am I doing something wrong? I talked to our friend William Lee and about to send this board back to Asrock. I got PSU connected, 3 CPU ATX connected. I had basically gotten a second PSU as the first that I got had only 2… --- ## [GPU support for Ampere Altra?](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/gpu-support-for-ampere-altra/274)
**Author:** [@geerlingguy](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/geerlingguy)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/gpu-support-for-ampere-altra/274 "2026-07-29T17:17:37Z")
…specifically for the Ampere Altra Development Platform or Dev Kit. Right now the list of supported graphics cards for the Dev Kit / Dev Platform is a bit slim: GeForce® RTX™ 3070 Ti VENTUS 3X 8G OC PNY GeForce® RTX™ … --- ## [Nvidia Windows on Arm drivers](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/nvidia-windows-on-arm-drivers/3454)
**Author:** [@ara](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/ara)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2026, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/nvidia-windows-on-arm-drivers/3454 "2026-07-28T21:31:18Z")
Has anyone tried or had success with using the recently released Nvidia Windows developer drivers on Ampere? My Asrock Rack altrad8ud-1l2t machine with a 5060 resets with a 7E BSOD attempting to use the drivers, found o… --- ## [Strange things that Engineering School didn't teach me](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/strange-things-that-engineering-school-didnt-teach-me/3453)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/strange-things-that-engineering-school-didnt-teach-me/3453 "2026-07-27T18:30:10Z")
I thought that I would start up simple yet fun conversation for this, and hopefully you all will join in. (It is summer and the WC is over so I don’t have an excuse to let my mind wonder for a couple of hours in the mid… --- ## [Improving Arm64 support in CNCF projects with OCI credits](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/improving-arm64-support-in-cncf-projects-with-oci-credits/3452)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/improving-arm64-support-in-cncf-projects-with-oci-credits/3452 "2026-07-21T17:43:25Z")
Historically, shipping multi-arch container manifests required navigating a major bottleneck: the lack of high-performance, native Arm64 CI/CD infrastructure, which often forced teams to rely on slow QEMU emulation or co… --- ## [Migrating from x86 to Arm64](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/migrating-from-x86-to-arm64/3437)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/migrating-from-x86-to-arm64/3437 "2026-07-14T14:01:08Z")
In our newsletter this month we are talking about migrating from x86 to Arm64 and I was wondering if anyone had some stories about something that they had to over come to do the migration or was it just simply testing ev… --- ## [Preventing high DIMM temperatures](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/preventing-high-dimm-temperatures/3440)
**Author:** [@TheComputerGuy](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/TheComputerGuy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/preventing-high-dimm-temperatures/3440 "2026-07-14T02:14:21Z")
I’ve been facing an issue on the ALTRAD8UD-1L2T in an NZXT H510 where when I sustain a high CPU & memory load, it causes the BMC to throw a deassert error and the entire system locks up. I’ve been running with heatsinks … --- ## [KubeFlow video has released](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/kubeflow-video-has-released/3438)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2026, 3:25am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/kubeflow-video-has-released/3438 "2026-07-10T03:25:54Z")
This was our first Developer Impact Live event and it was Chase Christensen of Wiz and is a steering committee member of Kubeflow. Kubeflow is soon to be a graduated project, CNCF’s highest level for its projects. Here… --- ## [Updating firmware to 4.01 on ASRockRack did not went well](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/updating-firmware-to-4-01-on-asrockrack-did-not-went-well/3425)
**Author:** [@hrw](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/hrw)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/updating-firmware-to-4-01-on-asrockrack-did-not-went-well/3425 "2026-06-29T17:39:54Z")
ASRockRack released firmware 4.01 which provided both SCP and TF-A in 2.10-2026.02.10 version (you may see my table of available versions in EDK2 thread). Today I decided to upgrade to this version from my old EDK2 buil… --- ## [Ampere Performance Toolkit- the Ampere System Profiler](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/ampere-performance-toolkit-the-ampere-system-profiler/3433)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/ampere-performance-toolkit-the-ampere-system-profiler/3433 "2026-06-26T20:45:27Z")
Hello all, We have publishing a lot about our APT- Ampere Performance Toolkit and we have just published two new videos on ASP. The latest is a short intro video about what it does and the second is a deep dive into th… --- ## [How to get around the Out of Capacity error on the Always Free tier of OCI?](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/how-to-get-around-the-out-of-capacity-error-on-the-always-free-tier-of-oci/3432)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/how-to-get-around-the-out-of-capacity-error-on-the-always-free-tier-of-oci/3432 "2026-06-25T19:05:54Z")
If you have an always free tier account you probably have run into the Out of Capacity error. I just found this post about how to get around it, well basically hack around it. Has anyone tried this? https://medium.com… --- ## [Memcpy performance](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/memcpy-performance/3403)
**Author:** [@lu\_zero](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/lu_zero)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/memcpy-performance/3403 "2026-06-23T11:27:20Z")
I’m eventually testing the tenstorrent blackhole on an AmpereOne and one annoying problem is the following, memcpy is utterly slow: This snippet on the ampereone produces: stnp (no prefetch) 9.78 GB/s s… --- ## [Moved Our Inference Workload to Ampere and the Power Efficiency Numbers Are Hard to Argue With](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/moved-our-inference-workload-to-ampere-and-the-power-efficiency-numbers-are-hard-to-argue-with/3422)
**Author:** [@SaraWill](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/SaraWill)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/moved-our-inference-workload-to-ampere-and-the-power-efficiency-numbers-are-hard-to-argue-with/3422 "2026-06-12T14:16:14Z")
I want to share this as an honest account rather than a promotional post because I was genuinely skeptical going into this migration and I think the skepticism was reasonable given how dominated the conversation around A… --- ## [New Developer Impact Video Released](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/new-developer-impact-video-released/3420)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/new-developer-impact-video-released/3420 "2026-06-10T19:25:08Z")
We have just released our new technical explainer video: “Kernel Theft on ARM64/Linux? ASP Finds the Bottleneck (Not Your Code)”. (And it is in a new format that we are working on. Let us know if you like it better.) I… --- ## [Two Resources Come Out for Perf Testing](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/two-resources-come-out-for-perf-testing/3391)
**Author:** [@vikingforties](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/vikingforties)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/two-resources-come-out-for-perf-testing/3391 "2026-05-27T12:39:04Z")
@bhakti & @dneary go through the set of platform & perf tools Ampere has for Altra and AmpereOne now here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PXcbRtD6Ys From Arm comes Performix for Neoverse based cores: --- ## [ALTRAD8UD2-1L2Q + Ampere Altra Q64-30 + FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE installer won't boot](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/altrad8ud2-1l2q-ampere-altra-q64-30-freebsd-15-0-release-installer-wont-boot/3288)
**Author:** [@JoeKun](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/JoeKun)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/altrad8ud2-1l2q-ampere-altra-q64-30-freebsd-15-0-release-installer-wont-boot/3288 "2026-05-24T01:02:58Z")
I have just received all the hardware I need to assemble my new Ampere Altra based server. I managed to get the rare ASRock Rack ALTRAD8UD2-1L2Q motherboard (with SFP28 and better placement for the CMOS battery) and an A… --- ## [Greg Kroah-Hartman on Developer Impact Live Links](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/greg-kroah-hartman-on-developer-impact-live-links/3401)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/greg-kroah-hartman-on-developer-impact-live-links/3401 "2026-05-14T18:08:41Z")
We just finished our Developer Impact live with Greg Kroah-Hartman. There were a couple of links that were mentioned that I wanted to post here. To watch the replay. Greg’s blog that he mentioned about the only benchm… --- ## [Developer Impact video Ampere Performance Toolkit part 2 released](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/developer-impact-video-ampere-performance-toolkit-part-2-released/3393)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/developer-impact-video-ampere-performance-toolkit-part-2-released/3393 "2026-04-30T13:30:49Z")
In our first video about the Ampere Performance Toolkit, we talked about what is inside of the toolkit. We have now released part two, diving into the various parts of the APT. Dave and Bhakti Hinduja exploring five s… --- ## [Now Live: MSOE and Ampere — Training a Generation in Real-World ML](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/now-live-msoe-and-ampere-training-a-generation-in-real-world-ml/3392)
**Author:** [@Aaron](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/Aaron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/now-live-msoe-and-ampere-training-a-generation-in-real-world-ml/3392 "2026-04-29T15:00:39Z")
Our latest Ampere Developer Impact episode, featuring Dr. RJ Nowling, the Director of Graduate ML Programs at the Milwaukee School of Engineering has been released. In this session, Dr. Nowling explains how his program … --- ## [AMD GPUs on the Altra devkit and other Altras - patches available now](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/amd-gpus-on-the-altra-devkit-and-other-altras-patches-available-now/336)
**Author:** [@q66](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/q66)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/amd-gpus-on-the-altra-devkit-and-other-altras-patches-available-now/336 "2026-04-16T14:47:37Z")
Hi, I’ve made it possible to use AMD GPUs on the Altras without graphical glitches. As it turns out, the Altra has a buggy PCIe controller, which means you can technically modeset with the GPUs and launch a desktop, b… --- ## [Windows x86 Steam games on arm64 Ampere box64 0.3.6](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/windows-x86-steam-games-on-arm64-ampere-box64-0-3-6/3011)
**Author:** [@JoeSpeed](https://community.amperecomputing.com/u/JoeSpeed)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/windows-x86-steam-games-on-arm64-ampere-box64-0-3-6/3011 "2026-04-10T03:26:17Z")
ptitSeb is doing great work on box64 using ADLINK Ampere desktop. Video below is box64 0.3.6 Linux x86 user space on Debian Trixie arm64 running Windows games on Wine/Proton Steam using Altra 128 core 2.6GHz, 6 memory ch… [Next page](https://community.amperecomputing.com/c/discussion/7.md?page=1)