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Initial SPIR-V Backend Code Lands In LLVM 15

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 18:18
The long in-development work by Intel, The Khronos Group, and other organizations on a proper SPIR-V back-end for LLVM is finally seeing code in mainline. As of last night the initial pieces have landed for the LLVM SPIR-V back-end for this Khronos open standard IR used most notably by Vulkan but for OpenCL and OpenGL as well...

QEMU 7.0 Released With Intel AMX Support, Many RISC-V Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 17:48
QEMU 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Patches Updated For Linux To Enjoy Consoles Running At Full-Speed

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 17:23
As part of the long ongoing work to improve Linux's printk() code, there has been work to allow for threaded console printing and allowing consoles to run at full-speed. That work is still ongoing but Tuesday saw the third iteration of those printk patches posted...

HPVM 2.0 Compiler For Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Brings New Hetero-C++ Front-End

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 16:52
Back in 2020 the University of Illinois released HPVM as a heterogeneous parallel systems compiler. This compiler for CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs / other accelerators reached version 1.0 and this week HPVM 2.0 has been announced by the university research crew...

How to Install dbWatch to Monitor MySQL Performance in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 14:52
The post How to Install dbWatch to Monitor MySQL Performance in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

dbWatch is a powerful, multi-platform, fully-featured, and enterprise-grade SQL database monitoring and management tool that gives you full control over your database instances and system resources. It is highly scalable, secure, and designed for

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From the mainframe to the edge: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z16 – the next generation of IBM zSystems

Red Hat News - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 12:00

As we’ve said before, every IT organization is different - from the underlying architecture and public cloud usage to edge strategies and the applications actually running in production.

AlmaLinux 9 Beta Released For Testing As No-Cost RHEL9 Alternative

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 07:46
Following the RHEL 9.0 Beta from last November and CentOS Stream 9 for the bleeding-edge RHEL9, the AlmaLinux crew today announced their 9.0 beta milestone. AlmaLinux over the past year has proven itself capable as a popular, community-based RHEL alternative that started after Red Hat announced it would discontinue the no-cost CentOS Linux downstream...

W3C Posts Initial WebAssembly 2.0 Working Drafts

Phoronix - Wed, 04/20/2022 - 06:50
WebAssembly as the W3C standard for a portable binary-code format for executable programs on the web and elsewhere continues seeing exciting new use-cases for speedy web applications and even desktop purposes. This open standard continues advancing though and the first public working drafts of WebAssembly 2.0 were published today...

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