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ZLUDA Implements Kernel Cache Support To Help With Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 20:10
ZLUDA as the open-source solution bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware has been seeing a nice uptick in activity the past several months for its latest take on life. The latest feature merged to ZLUDA is the all-important kernel cache to help with performance...

Itanium IA-64 Support May Revert Back To Being Deprecated/Obsolete For GCC 16

Phoronix - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 19:37
The GCC 14 compiler had marked the Itanium IA-64 code as being obsolete and slated for removal in GCC 15. But then last year the Itanium port was un-deprecated with plans to "support this for some years to come." Now one year later it's back to talking about deprecating/obsoleting the Itanium IA-64 compiler code in GCC...

Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 18:35
Intel has introduced another new PCI device ID to their open-source Linux graphics driver stack for signifying another likely product on the way based on the Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU...

Fedora 43 Approved To Ship Hare Programming Language Support, Hardlinking Default

Phoronix - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 18:21
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week approved a number of additional features for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 release...

Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 18:06
The beta release of Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is now available for testing of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

Intel Releases LLM-Scaler 1.0 As Part Of Project Battlematrix

Phoronix - Tue, 08/12/2025 - 08:27
Intel today announced their August 2025 Software Update to Project Battlematrix and the release of the LLM-Scaler 1.0 container for optimized AI inference support on Intel Arc B-Series graphics hardware...

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