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AMD Preparing More Linux Code For The Frontier Supercomputer

Phoronix - Fri, 05/28/2021 - 08:37
Frontier as the first US exascale supercomputer being commissioned by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. while being powered by AMD CPUs/GPUs is in the process of seeing more Linux kernel changes for bringing up the new platform...

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

Phoronix - Fri, 05/28/2021 - 04:14
Earlier this month were benchmarks looking at Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 21.04 on an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X desktop to which Ubuntu came out roughly 8% faster than the Microsoft OS on average. But what about the difference for HEDT systems? Given the more radical performance difference we have seen in the past with Windows vs. Linux for Threadripper systems, here are some recently conducted benchmarks on that front with the 64-core Threadripper 3990X.

Intel's OpenGL Mesa Drivers Now In Good Shape For External Objects

Phoronix - Thu, 05/27/2021 - 22:07
Over the past year developers from Igalia, Collabora, and others have been involved in bringing up support for the OpenGL EXT_external_objects extension within the Intel open-source drivers. That work is now squared away as one of the pieces for offering better interoperability between OpenGL and Vulkan...

Sailfish OS 4.1 Finally Embracing 64-bit, Android 10 App Support API Level

Phoronix - Thu, 05/27/2021 - 19:26
While other mobile operating systems have for years been on a 64-bit software stack and in the process of phasing out 32-bit app support, Jolla is celebrating Sailfish 4.1 as finally marking their first fully 64-bit Sailfish OS software stack -- for use currently just with the Sony Xperia 10 II smartphone...

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