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Project Amber Officially Launches As The Intel Trust Authority

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 00:35
Last year Intel announced Project Amber as an effort to verify the trustworthiness of clouds. Project Amber was talked up as "an innovative service-based security implementation" for the remote verification of the trustworthiness of compute assets. Project Amber is now rolling out as the Intel Trust Authority...

XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 22:29
There's just under one month to go now until the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) returns to A Coruña, Spain for the annual development conference focused on open-source graphics drivers (Mesa), Wayland, and related Linux display/graphics infrastructure although the X.Org Server itself hasn't received much attention in recent years. Here's a look at some of the planned talks for the exciting XDC 2023...

Glibc Lands HWCAPs Support For LoongArch

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 22:14
When it comes to Glibc HWCAPs for allowing the C library to load optimized libraries based upon the CPU features at run-time, it's mostly been focused on the x86_64 world for targeting higher x86-64 levels or being able to load optimized libraries for systems with AVX support. Loongson though has now contributed initial LoongArch HWCAPs support...

HiSilicon Posts SMT Run-Time Control Patches For ARM64 Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 20:27
While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) isn't as common on Arm SoCs as it is in the x86 and POWER worlds, there are some SMT-capable designs like with the HiSilicon Kupeng 930 for Arm servers. HiSilicon engineers are working now to extend Linux's SMT run-time controls to work on ARM64 (AArch64)...

GraalVM Updated For Java/JDK 21, Great Performance Results

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 18:34
In addition to Oracle releasing OpenJDK 21 / Java 21 on Tuesday, their GraalVM team also carried out a same-day release of GraalVM with the new Java 21 features and more...

NVIDIA Preparing Their Linux InfiniBand Driver For 800Gb/s XDR

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 18:23
NVIDIA's latest patches intended for the upstream Linux kernel are over on the networking side of the house with their Mellanox wares as they prepare 800Gb/s (XDR) support within the RDMA/InfiniBand code...

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