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Daffodil Promoted To Being An Apache Top-Level Project

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 13:09
Following the recent promotions of DataSketches and ECharts, the Apache Software Foundation has promoted Daffodil as their newest top-level project. Apache Daffodil is an open-source universal interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL)...

Daffodil Promoted To Being An Apache Top-Level Project

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 13:09
Following the recent promotions of DataSketches and ECharts, the Apache Software Foundation has promoted Daffodil as their newest top-level project. Apache Daffodil is an open-source universal interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL)...

Linux 5.12-rc2 Released Early - A Rare Friday Kernel Due To That Nasty Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 10:15
While Linus Torvalds long has released his new kernel releases -- both release candidates and the inaugural stable releases -- every Sunday, there are the occasional exceptions like this week with Linux 5.12-rc2 being issued on Friday night. The Linux 5.12-rc2 release has come early due to that nasty file-system corruption issue stemming from botched swapfile handling...

Linux 5.12-rc2 Released Early - A Rare Friday Kernel Due To That Nasty Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 10:15
While Linus Torvalds long has released his new kernel releases -- both release candidates and the inaugural stable releases -- every Sunday, there are the occasional exceptions like this week with Linux 5.12-rc2 being issued on Friday night. The Linux 5.12-rc2 release has come early due to that nasty file-system corruption issue stemming from botched swapfile handling...

Radeon RX 6800 Series Seeing Some Small Gains With Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 01:09
When it comes to the AMDGPU kernel driver changes in Linux 5.12 for modern open-source AMD Radeon graphics, most notable is RDNA2 OverDrive overclocking support now being available as well as AMDGPU FreeSync over HDMI (pre-HDMI 2.1). But from initial testing the new in-development kernel is showing mostly subtle performance improvements for the Radeon RX 6800 series over Linux 5.11.

Radeon RX 6800 Series Seeing Some Small Gains With Linux 5.12

Phoronix - Sat, 03/06/2021 - 01:09
When it comes to the AMDGPU kernel driver changes in Linux 5.12 for modern open-source AMD Radeon graphics, most notable is RDNA2 OverDrive overclocking support now being available as well as AMDGPU FreeSync over HDMI (pre-HDMI 2.1). But from initial testing the new in-development kernel is showing mostly subtle performance improvements for the Radeon RX 6800 series over Linux 5.11.

PyTorch 1.8 Released With AMD ROCm Binaries

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 21:23
PyTorch 1.8 was released on Thursday as the newest version of this widely-used machine learning library. Exciting many will be easier AMD Radeon ROCm support with Python wheels now provided for that Radeon Open eCosystem support...

PyTorch 1.8 Released With AMD ROCm Binaries

Phoronix - Fri, 03/05/2021 - 21:23
PyTorch 1.8 was released on Thursday as the newest version of this widely-used machine learning library. Exciting many will be easier AMD Radeon ROCm support with Python wheels now provided for that Radeon Open eCosystem support...

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