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ADLINK Launches Ampere Altra Developer Platform, Starting At $3999 USD

Phoronix - Fri, 04/08/2022 - 01:57
ADLINK Technology today announced a new developer platform based on Ampere Altra for software development, cloud, and related workloads. The ADLINK Ampere Altra Developer Platform is based on their COM-HPC module and pairs with 32, 64, or 80-core Ampere Altra processors...

Khronos Makes Improvements To OpenCL SDK, Plots Roadmap

Phoronix - Fri, 04/08/2022 - 00:16
It's been nearly one year since Khronos released OpenCL 3.0 while today they are shipping some improvements to the OpenCL Software Developer Kit (SDK)...

"Kopper" Merged Into Mesa As A Big Win For Zink

Phoronix - Thu, 04/07/2022 - 19:21
Merged into Mesa 22.1-devel this morning is Kopper, a big improvement particularly for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code...

Fedora Makes Progress On Radeon ROCm Packages, But Still Needs To Land OpenCL / HIP

Phoronix - Thu, 04/07/2022 - 18:16
Last year Fedora developers and users were discussing the packaging of ROCm components to make it easier to deploy this Radeon open-source GPU compute stack. Five months later, some of the Radeon Open eCosystem components have made it into Fedora for easier installation but the HIP and OpenCL front-ends to ROCm haven't yet been successfully packaged...

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