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RHEL-Based AlmaLinux Announces "ALBS" Access For Its Public Build System

Phoronix - Tue, 06/21/2022 - 02:20
AlmaLinux today made public ALBS, the AlmaLinux Build System used to construct the recent releases of AlmaLinux 8.6 and AlmaLinux 9.0 across all supported architectures...

AMD PRO 5000 WX Series Coming To More System Integrators, DIY Market Later This Year

Phoronix - Mon, 06/20/2022 - 23:52
After announcing the Threadripper PRO 5000 WX series back in March and with Lenovo being their launch partner for these Zen 3 Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, AMD today shared an update on availability...

Amazon Graviton3 Compiler Tuning Benchmarks For The Arm Neoverse-V1 Cores

Phoronix - Mon, 06/20/2022 - 20:58
Stemming from my recent AWS Graviton3 benchmarks and looking at Graviton3 against Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC, a number of Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing some compiler tuning benchmarks for the Graviton3 around its Arm Neoverse-V1 cores with SVE support. Here are some benchmarks for those interested in the compiler tuning impact for this new high performance Arm cloud processor.

Intel Turning Their Gaussian & Neural Accelerator Into A DRM Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 06/20/2022 - 18:26
Found with Intel mobile SoCs since Ice Lake is their Gaussian and Neural Accelerator "GNA" that has been supported by an out-of-tree Linux driver while over the past year Intel engineers have been working to upstream an Intel GNA Linux driver into the mainline kernel. They have most recently been adapting this GNA driver to become a Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver alongside their Intel i915 kernel graphics driver and other conventional graphics drivers...

Imagination's PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands Hard Coding Infrastructure

Phoronix - Mon, 06/20/2022 - 18:11
Due to the early state of Imagination's PowerVR Rogue open-source Vulkan driver within Mesa a "hard coding" infrastructure has been added for helping to load hard-coded graphics/compute shaders into this driver until its compiler is far enough along to be useful and mark this infrastructure as unnecessary/redundant...

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