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Intel Releases High Performance Computing Reference Stack 2.0

Phoronix - Fri, 01/08/2021 - 02:38
Intel has released their High Performance Computing Reference Stack 2.0 as the latest Docker image optimized for HPC/AI workloads...

Early Work Is Underway On Reverse-Engineering The Apple M1 GPU

Phoronix - Fri, 01/08/2021 - 00:52
Alyssa Rosenzweig who is known for her work on reverse-engineering Arm GPUs and in particular the multi-year effort so far working on the Panfrost open-source driver stack has taken up an interest in Apple's M1 graphics processor...

Progress On The GNOME 40 Shell Continues At Full Speed

Phoronix - Fri, 01/08/2021 - 00:26
The GNOME Shell user experience improvements and other components continue in development at full-speed for the GNOME 40 release due out in March...

NVIDIA 460.32.03 Linux Driver Released With Official Vulkan Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Thu, 01/07/2021 - 23:37
NVIDIA today released the 460.32.03 Linux graphics driver as their first stable release in the 460 driver series...

Intel's IWD 1.11 Released For Faster WiFi Scanning

Phoronix - Thu, 01/07/2021 - 22:00
The Intel-developed IWD Linux wireless daemon is out with its first feature release of 2021...

RadeonSI Gallium3D Adds Radeon GPU Profiler Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/07/2021 - 20:45
Surprisingly it has taken until 2021 but the RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver now supports using the company's own Radeon GPU Profiler...

NVIDIA Prepares XWayland OpenGL/Vulkan Acceleration Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/07/2021 - 19:17
NVIDIA's Wayland support is finally coming together albeit long overdue with DMA-BUF passing support and now patches pending against XWayland for supporting OpenGL and Vulkan hardware acceleration with their proprietary driver...

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