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CuPy 9.0 Brings AMD GPU Support To This Numpy-Compatible Library

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 01:05
In recent months there has finally been more open-source projects traditionally focused on NVIDIA GPU compute beginning to offer mainline Radeon support using the open-source ROCm stack. Following the recent PyTorch 1.8 with ROCm support, CuPy 9.0 was released last week with that traditionally CUDA focused library now supporting AMD's ROCm stack...

NVIDIA 465.27 Linux Driver Brings Expanded Laptop GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 21:52
NVIDIA today released their 465.27 Linux driver as the newest stable build in this current driver series...

AMD Energy Driver Booted From The Linux 5.13 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 21:02
While a lot of new features and improvements have been accumulating for the Linux 5.13 kernel with the ongoing merge window, one of the unfortunate aspects of this new kernel is that the AMD Zen CPU energy driver "amd_energy" is indeed being removed...

IWOCL + SYCLcon 2021 Slides/Videos Published For Lots Of OpenCL, SYCL Technical Talks

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 20:45
Taking place virtually this week has been the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) and SYCLcon. From these events are a lot of interesting presentations for those interested in GPU compute, heterogeneous programming, and industry API efforts...

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