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Ubuntu Forms An HPC Team To Push AI, High Performance Computing Workloads

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 20:56
Announced on Thursday was the Ubuntu High Performance Computing (HPC) team to promote Ubuntu Linux for running AI/ML, energy, bioinformatics, meteorology, and other workloads on Ubuntu Linux...

Linux Preps Hybrid SMP Fix To Avoid Upcoming Laptops Appearing As 11 Socket Monsters

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 20:17
A fix is on its way to the mainline Linux 6.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernel series to fix x86 topology reporting for Intel Hybrid systems. The topology bug within the kernel becomes more pronounced for Meteor Lake laptops where currently internal Intel test laptops can report the systems having 11 CPU sockets rather than the proper number of cores all contained within one CPU socket...

Big Throughput Boost & Lower Latency With New Patch For Linux Checksum Function

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 18:21
Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.5 cycle kicking off in about one month is a new Linux x86 optimization patch for further tuning csum_partial, the function used within the kernel for calculating 32-bit checksums on blocks of data. Much lower latency and higher throughput can be observed with the newly-optimized csum_partial on the latest Intel/AMD processors...

Qt 5.15 LTS Takes Another Step Closer To Retirement

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 17:58
The Qt 5.15 Long-Term Support branch as the last release in the Qt5 series is one step closer to retirement with The Qt Group now having ended its standard support for legacy license holders...

sdl12-compat 1.2.64 Released - More Classic Games Now Running On This SDL2 Layer

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 08:59
Following the recent sdl12-compat test release, sdl-compat v1.2.64 has been released as the newest version of this library implementing the SDL 1.2 API/ABI atop SDL 2.x interfaces for enhancing game compatibility on modern Linux environments...

Mesa 23.1.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes For RADV, Zink, Intel ANV

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 06:40
For those that prefer waiting to the first point release before shifting to a new Mesa3D quarterly feature release, Mesa 23.1.1 is out today so you can now begin upgrading to this latest set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used on Linux systems and elsewhere...

PostgreSQL 16 Reaches Beta With Performance Improvements - Including SIMD for x86 & ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 05/26/2023 - 01:01
PostgreSQL 16 is up to its first beta milestone today with new performance optimizations and continued security enhancements...

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