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Linux 6.4 Looking To Drop The SLOB Memory Allocator

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 19:00
A patch series is proposing that the SLOB memory allocator be removed from the Linux 6.4 kernel this summer...

Open3D 0.17 Released For Open-Source 3D Data Processing

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 18:38
Open3D as an open-source library for 3D data processing from 3D machine learning tasks to adaptable viewing of 3D data is out with its newest feature release...

SPECFEM3D 4.0 Released With AMD HIP GPU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 18:19
The latest notable high performance computing (HPC) open-source project adding mainline support for AMD HIP with ROCm is SPECFEM3D...

GCC 13 Adds RISC-V T-Head Vendor Extension Collection

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 18:11
Being merged today into the GCC 13 compiler is the set of T-Head vendor extensions to the RISC-V ISA. This set of vendor extensions is designed to augment the RISC-V ISA and provide faster and more energy efficient capabilities...

The Qt Group Launches Qt Insight

Phoronix - Wed, 03/15/2023 - 17:51
The Qt Group as the company behind the Qt open-source toolkit has launched Qt Insight as their newest software offering. However, Qt Insight does not appear to be open-source and is marketed as a SaaS product...

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