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Getting to know Jennifer Dudeck, Red Hat’s chief people officer

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 12:00

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer "Jen" Dudeck as senior vice president and chief people officer. In her new role, Jen will be responsible for leading Red Hat’s People team, which is focused on attracting, developing and rewarding associates around the world.

Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 12:00
Arcan, the long running open-source display server built atop a game engine that has embraced technologies like XR/VR and Wayland and claims feature parity with X.Org this week announced their new Pipeworld project...

Google Talks Up Logica As Open-Source Programming Language For Data Manipulation

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 06:33
Google engineers are responsible for a number of programming languages like Go, Kotlin, and Dart while their newest one to be made public is Logica...

NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU For ARM-Based AI/HPC Processor

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 00:43
NVIDIA announced today in kicking off GTC21 the "Grace" high performance Arm processor for AI and high performance computing workloads. But before getting too excited, this high performance Arm chip isn't expected to be ready until 2023...

Radeon Vulkan Variable Rate Shading Benchmarks For Boosting RDNA2 Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 04/12/2021 - 23:26
Landing in Mesa 21.1 on Friday was a variable rate shading (VRS) override for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver for providing significant performance boosts by effectively rendering less. This feature is limited to RDNA2 graphics processors while here are some benchmarks on what it means for 4K gaming with the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards on Linux.

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