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Habana Labs' Gaudi NIC Support Being Worked On For Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 21:41
Intel-owned AI startup Habana Labs is working on expanding their "Gaudi" support to now include the NIC network interface found on this AI training accelerator hardware...

Erlang Is Seeing Work On "BeamAsm" - A JIT Compiler Yielding Much Performance Uplift

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 19:00
Lukas Larsson of Erlang Solutions is proposing "BeamAsm" as a JIT compiler for the Erlang virtual machine...

Xfce 4.16pre1 Released As The First Step Towards This Next Desktop Update

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 15:15
Following the very delayed Xfce 4.14, the Xfce 4.16 release is progressing with plans for releasing this year. Xfce 4.16pre1 was released at the end of August while it was the release announcement that was delayed for this lightweight desktop environment update...

Overcoming resistance to open management

opensource.com - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 15:00

In this installment of our "Managing with Open Values" series, I chat again with Braxton, Director of Pricing for a nationwide U.S. insurance company and people manager.


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Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 Milestone 2 Now Available For Testing

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 13:01
The second development release of the forthcoming Phoronix Test Suite 10.0-Finnsnes is now available for testing...

GNOME 3.38 RC2 Released With Last Minute Changes

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 12:06
GNOME 3.38 is due for release next week while the second and final release candidate is now available as one last chance for testing...

NVIDIA Reportedly Near Deal To Buy Arm For $40+ Billion Dollars

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 08:27
Breaking this weekend is word that NVIDIA and Arm are reportedly close to a deal in which the graphics giant would be acquiring the UK-based chip designer from SoftBank in a deal worth $40 billion USD or more...

FreeBSD 12.2 Beta Available For Testing

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 02:22
While FreeBSD 13 is aiming for release around March of 2021, FreeBSD 12.2 is on the way for releasing next month as the next stable installment...

AOMP 11.9 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 09/13/2020 - 00:51
AOMP 11.9 was released on Friday as AMD's LLVM-based compiler with Clang for C/C++ and Flang for Fortran in offloading capable OpenMP code to Radeon GPUs...

Wasmer 1.0 Is Approaching For Running WebAssembly Anywhere

Phoronix - Sat, 09/12/2020 - 21:34
The Wasmer 1.0 alpha release is now available for running WebAssembly programs anywhere. Wasmer is about providing a universal runtime for WebAssembly (WASM) that can run across platforms / operating systems and also embed into other programming languages. Wasmer leverages WebAssembly principles to provide safety around untrusted code on top of its other design features...

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