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KWinFT 5.24 Released - Continues To Advance Its Wayland Support, Expand On Wlroots

Phoronix - Thu, 02/10/2022 - 02:37
Along with yesterday marking the release of KDE Plasma 5.24, KWinFT 5.24 debuted as the newest version of this KWin compositor fork that continues focusing on providing Wayland support, new features, and modernizing the codebase...

GNU Binutils 2.38 Released With LoongArch Support, Intel AVX-512 FP16, More Arm Cores

Phoronix - Wed, 02/09/2022 - 22:22
GNU Binutils 2.38 is out today as the newest feature release to this collection of free software utilities very common to Linux systems and other platforms...

Intel Graphics Driver Has Alder Lake N & DG2/Alchemist Performance Boost For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Wed, 02/09/2022 - 20:07
Intel on Tuesday submitted to DRM-Next what is likely to be their biggest set of feature updates for their "i915" kernel graphics driver in this spring's Linux 5.18...

Europe's AMD-Powered LUMI Supercomputer Continues With Code Porting, Open-Source Tuning

Phoronix - Wed, 02/09/2022 - 18:45
The LUMI supercomputer in Finland is still being assembled with its 2,560 nodes consisting of a 64-core AMD Trento CPU and four AMD Instinct MI250X GPU accelerators per node. This 375+ PFLOPs was supposed to come online by the end of 2021 but was challenged by the supply chain crisis and is now aiming for general availability by the middle of the year. While the hardware is still coming together, their HPC engineers have been hard at work optimizing the open-source Linux software stack...

AVX-Accelerated SM3 Secure Hashing Queued For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Wed, 02/09/2022 - 18:12
Last year I wrote about Alibaba wanting to contribute AVX-optimized SM3 hashing for the Linux kernel to speed up that Chinese hashing algorithm that has use-cases similar to that of SHA256 while having similar security and performance. That work is now queued up into the crypto subsystem's "-next" branch for Linux 5.18...

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