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Intel Contributes AVX-512 Optimizations To Numpy, Yields Massive Speedups

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 02:50
Intel has contributed AVX-512 optimizations to upstream Numpy. For those using Numpy as this leading Python library for numerical computing, newer Intel CPUs with AVX-512 capabilities can enjoy major speed-ups in the range of 14~32x faster...

GNOME's Platform Design Continues Evolving From Dark Mode To Toasts

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 02:35
GNOME developer Allan Day has provided an update on behalf of the GNOME design time around some of their recent platform design improvements and some of the changes they are talking about in the near future...

7.4M IOPS Achieved Per-Core With Newest Linux Patches

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 02:14
Linux block subsystem maintainer and lead IO_uring developer Jens Axboe had a goal of hitting 7M IOPS per-core performance this week. On Monday he managed to already hit 7.2M IOPS and today hit 7.4M IOPS with his latest work-in-progress kernel patches...

Portable Computing Language 1.8 Released For OpenCL On CPUs, Other Accelerators

Phoronix - Wed, 10/13/2021 - 01:31
PoCL is the open-source project implementing OpenCL for CPU-based execution as well as multi-device support by getting its Portable Computing Language implementation working atop NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA, AMD GPUs via HSA, and other back-ends by way of LLVM. PoCL 1.8 is out today as the newest feature release...

Intel Tiger Lake Performance Across Five Autumn 2021 Linux Distributions

Phoronix - Tue, 10/12/2021 - 20:26
Earlier this month were benchmarks looking at how Intel Tiger Lake performance has improved from Ubuntu 21.04 to Ubuntu 21.10, but how does Canonical's latest Linux offering compete with other autumn 2021 distributions? In this article from the Dell XPS Core i7-1165G7 Tiger Lake notebook are benchmarks of Ubuntu 21.10 going up against Arch Linux, Clear Linux, Fedora Workstation 35, and openSUSE Tumbleweed for getting an idea how the performance compares with this latest-generation Intel EVO notebook.

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