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Building a more secure, composable AI-powered infrastructure with Red Hat and NVIDIA

Red Hat News - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 12:00

Modern data centers and IT environments need enhanced threat detection and policy management across bare metal and Kubernetes deployments. This is why Red Hat announced our plans to support NVIDIA BlueField DPUs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift.

AMD Announces New Zen 3 Desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution + More

Phoronix - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 11:00
For being a virtual event, AMD's keynote for Computex Taipei 2021 is filled with quite a bit of excitement and multiple product announcements. Here are the highlights for AMD's new announcements at Computex 2021.

Experimental RADV Code Allows Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 02:14
AMD currently just supports Vulkan ray-tracing with their Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards while now there is independent work being done on Mesa's unofficial Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) to allow ray-tracing to work with older generations of GPUs like Vega and Polaris...

Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 22:26
This week on 5 June marks 17 years since starting Phoronix.com for Linux hardware reviews and also 13 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for advancing open-source/Linux benchmarking...

Genode OS 21.05 Released With Webcam Support, Encrypted File Vault

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 21:22
Genode OS as the from-scratch open-source operating system framework built atop a micro-kernel abstraction layer and various original user-space components is out with its version 21.05 update...

Valve's GameNetworkingSockets 1.3 Released With Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 20:05
One of Valve's many open-source projects is GameNetworkingSockets as a basic transport layer for games to handle UDP-based messaging, P2P networking, encryption, IPv6, and other network handling functionality of particular use to games / game engines...

Linux 5.14 To Have Additional Bring-Up For Intel Alder Lake M

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:44
In recent months there has been a lot of Linux kernel patches for bringing up Alder Lake S and Alder Lake P while more recently the enablement patches for Alder Lake M low-power mobile has begun...

X.Org Server Git Lands Latest Patches To Help NVIDIA XWayland

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 18:16
Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan has landed the latest XWayland improvements into X.Org Server Git for primarily benefiting the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack...

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