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Sustainable supply chains: challenges, drivers and architectures

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 08:00
A common definition of environmental sustainability is meeting the resource and services needs of current and future generations without compromising the health of the ecosystems that provide them. In addition to ongoing discussions around government regulation, investors and asset managers are increasingly demanding carbon disclosure from their portfolio companies. Investment in environmental funds is soaring—with some reports pegging it at over $40 trillion. Even though specific actions taken by businesses are arguably still limited in overall impact, it’s nonetheless an increasingly

Intel Posts New Linux Patches For Cluster Scheduling With Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 05:00
A new set of patches were posted today to enable cluster scheduling for x86 hybrid CPUs. In turn thos latest attempt at cluster scheduling for modern Core CPUs of Alder Lake and newer is yielding some small performance benefits over the current code...

LLVM Clang Now Exposes -std=c++23 Rather Than -std=c++2b

Phoronix - Fri, 05/05/2023 - 04:41
Merged today to LLVM 17 Git is now recognizing -std=c++23 rather than just -std=c++2b for the Clang compiler now that C++23 has been deemed technically complete...

Intel's One Line Of Linux Code For Speeding-Up Sapphire Rapids On Ubuntu

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 22:00
Recently I noticed out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux the performance of Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors was much improved for some workloads compared to tests done just weeks ago on the same Sapphire Rapids server. It ended up being an issue coming full-circle and ultimately boils down to one line of code added within the Linux kernel.

Open 3D Engine 23.05 Released With Many New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 21:00
It's been just under two years since Amazon's Lumberyard game engine was spun into the Open 3D Engine and the Open 3D Foundation established under the Linux Foundation. Today the project is celebrating its newest open-source game engine update with Open 3D Engine 23.05...

X.Org Foundation To Become Part Of The SFC

Phoronix - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 20:25
X.Org members have approved of the X.Org Foundation letting the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) become its fiscal sponsor...

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