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AMD To Detail ROCm Open-Source Software Progress In June

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:02
AMD announced today they will be hosting a virtual "Advancing AI 2025" event in mid-June where they will talk about their next-gen AMD Instinct accelerators while of much interest to many Phoronix readers is an update on the ROCm open-source software...

OpenSSH 10.0 Released To Better Fend Off Attacks By Quantum Computers

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 21:55
OpenSSH 10.0 is now available for this widely-used SSH client/server implementation. There are a number of changes to find with OpenSSH 10.0 including better protections against possible attacks by future quantum computers...

Benchmarks: Google Cloud's New C4D VMs Deliver Remarkable Performance With AMD EPYC Turin

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 20:00
As part of the announcements coming out today from Google Cloud Next 2025, the embargo has now lifted on the new Google Cloud C4D VMs. Powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, the new C4D instances deliver incredibly high performance and can scale up to 384 vCPUs with 3TB of RAM. For web servers, databases, CPU-based machine learning, and other workloads, the new Google C4D instances deliver incredible uplift compared to the prior-gen C3D instances. Here are some of the first public, independent benchmarks of Google's new C4D family.

Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships With JPEG-XL Support Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 18:46
The Ubuntu 25.04 release shipping this month will now feature JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box...

RadeonSI Driver Wires Up Support For 16-bit NIR Types: Benefits GLES & OpenCL

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 18:32
Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his most recent conquest: implementing support for 16-bit NIR types within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver along with the LLVM and ACO compiler back-ends...

Initial Support For Apple Cores Merged For The GCC 15 Compiler: A12, M1, M2 & M3

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 18:18
As a sooner than expected follow-up to the recent news article around Apple M1 / M2 / M3 core support for the GCC compiler, that code has now been successfully merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...

AMD Preferred Core Support For Linux Revised To Better Handle Dynamic Rankings

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 18:04
Merged back in Linux 6.9 was AMD Preferred Core support for Linux for the concept of "preferred cores" with newer Zen processors that are communicated via ACPI CPPC for select cores able to reach a higher maximum frequency or should otherwise be preferred over other cores on the system in the name of maximizing performance. That was a nice step forward for better handling newer Ryzen processors on Linux and matching functionality that had already been working under Microsoft Windows. Of focus more recently has been working on enabling more dynamic Preferred Core support for where the priority of the preferred cores may change at run-time...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds AMD GPU Driver Install Instructions

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 17:43
Yesterday brought the newest update to Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux. The Azure Linux 3.0.20250402 brought many package updates mostly in the name of shipping security fixes plus brought new instructions on making use of the AMD graphics driver stack under this Microsoft Linux distribution along with various other updates...

How to Fix Ubuntu Freezes, Crashes or System Hangs

Tecmint - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 13:26
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When your Ubuntu system suddenly freezes, it can be very frustrating, especially if you’re working on something important project. Although

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