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NVIDIA Releasing Reference Design For Stuffing Their GPUs Into Arm Servers
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced from SC19 today in Denver that they are releasing a "reference design" of hardware and software to help in deployments of their graphics processors within Arm-based servers focused on HPC and AI...
Valve Announcing Half-Life: Alyx VR Game On Thursday
Valve has confirmed recent rumors around one of their new virtual reality games in development being Half-Life: Alyx...
Intel's oneAPI / DPC++ / SYCL Will Run Atop NVIDIA GPUs With Open-Source Layer
With yesterday's much anticipated Intel oneAPI beta being built around open-source standards like SYCL, the "cross-device" support can at least in theory extend beyond just Intel platforms. Codeplay is already showing that's possible with a to-be-open-source layer that will allow oneAPI and SYCL / Data Parallel C++ to run atop NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA...
Intel's Vulkan Driver To Lower CPU Overhead With Mesa 20.0
A patch series was merged today for the in-development Mesa 20.0 to further lower the CPU overhead of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver...
Intel To Drop Very Old Drivers/BIOS From Their Site, But The Linux Impact To Be Minimal
Making waves today is that Intel will be removing very old BIOS and driver downloads from their site on or after 22 November. Though these software downloads for the products in question are around ~20 years old so the real-world impact should be small plus with Linux drivers being in the mainline kernel, all you'd really be losing out on are BIOS updates that themselves haven't seen updates in years...
Fedora Developers Looking To Change The Default Text Editor From Vi To Nano
Fedora will be adding the Nano text editor to their default Fedora Workstation installs as complementary to Vi but their stakeholders intend to submit a system-wide proposal that would change the default installed editor from Vi to Nano...
Google To Require "Designed For Chromebook" Devices Support Fwupd Firmware Updates
Beginning at the start of the year it looks like Google will be requiring hardware vendors to support firmware updating on Linux via Fwupd with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) if they wish to carry the "Designed For Chromebook" label...
CrossOver 19 Enters Beta With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux
CodeWeavers' Jeremy White has announced that CrossOver 19 is now in beta for existing customers of this Wine-based software for running Windows programs on Linux and macOS...
AMD Announces Radeon Open Compute ROCm 3.0
AMD just sent out their press release for SuperComputing 19 week in Denver. It turns out being released for SC19 is the latest major iteration of Radeon Open Compute, ROCm 3.0...
23-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Shadow of the Tomb Raider On Linux
Earlier this month Feral Interactive released the Linux port of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. For those wondering about the AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce performance for this Vulkan-powered Linux game port, here are benchmark results on 23 different graphics cards.
Vulkan 1.1.128 Released With Performance Query Extension
Vulkan 1.1.128 is out with various corrections and clarifications to this graphics/compute API specification but it also comes with one exciting new extension...
GCC 10 Feature Development Is Over - Now The Focus Turns To Bug Fixing
GCC 10 has moved to its next stage of development that shifts away from feature work to instead general bug fixing with hopes of shipping the GNU Compiler Collection 10 release in the months ahead...
Schedutil Frequency Invariance Revised For Better Intel Performance + Power Efficiency
SUSE developer Giovanni Gherdovich has sent out the latest patches on supporting frequency invariance within the kernel's scheduler code and ultimately making use of it for select Intel CPUs to yield not only better raw performance but also power efficiency...
Initial Patches Wire In C++20 Coroutines For The GCC Compiler
The GNU Compiler Collection continues picking up new features aligned for the upcoming C++20 standard. The latest are patches pending on the mailing list for implementing coroutines in C++...
Zswap Could See Better Performance Thanks To A B-Tree Search Implementation
For those using Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swapping on Linux systems, the performance could soon see a measurable improvement...
Intel Confirms Ponte Vecchio As 7nm General Purpose GPU
In addition to announcing the much anticipated oneAPI beta, Raja Koduri spent his time at Intel's event today also talking about "Ponte Vecchio" as their forthcoming general purpose GPU...
Linux 5.4-rc8 Released - Things Are Calm For Linux 5.4's Debut Next Week
As expected, Linus Torvalds opted for doing a 5.4-rc8 kernel release today rather than going straight to Linux 5.4 stable. However, he says he could have just as well done the stable kernel release thanks to the cycle settling down...
Intel Releases oneAPI Base Toolkit Beta For Performance-Focused, Cross-Device Software
Since Intel announced "oneAPI" last December we have been eagerly looking forward to its availability and today is finally that day! For SC19, Intel has made available the beta of the oneAPI Base Toolkit for developing speedy code that runs cross-architecture...
The Exciting Linux 5.4 Changes From exFAT Support To Intel Tiger Lake Graphics
It's possible this afternoon Linus Torvalds will release Linux 5.4 stable but considering his communications in recent weeks and many changes still flowing in this week, it's more than likely he will divert and release Linux 5.4-rc8 today and then ship this next stable kernel update on the next Sunday...
Arch Linux Held Their First Internal Conference Last Month In Berlin
Key stakeholders of the Arch Linux distribution quietly met in Berlin last month for their first conference...