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Intel llm-scaler-vllm Beta 1.2 Brings Support For New AI Models On Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 18:29
Following yesterday's release of a new llm-scaler-omni beta there is now a new beta feature release of llm-scaler-vllm that provides the Intel-optimized version of vLLM within a Docker container that is set and ready to go for AI on modern Arc Graphics hardware. With today's llm-scaler-vllm 1.2 beta release there is support for a variety of additional large language models (LLMs) and other improvements...

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Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 09:50
The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 09:25
Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optimizing for better performance...

Glibc Now Enabling 2MB THP On AArch64 By Default For Better Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 04:45
The GNU C Library's malloc implementation is now enabling 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for AArch64 Linux. This is being done in the name of better performance -- a healthy 6.25% performance improvement is noted for SPEC with this change...

Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 04:37
The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface. This QIORing may also end up supporting Microsoft's Windows IORing implementation as well...

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