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NVIDIA 450 Series Linux Driver OpenCL/CUDA/OptiX Performance On Pascal/Turing

Phoronix - Tue, 09/01/2020 - 02:42
With last week having delivered some current NVIDIA Linux gaming performance metrics ahead of the anticipated GeForce RTX 3000 "Ampere" series launch this week, here are some fresh compute metrics for those interested.

Blender 2.90 Released With Intel Embree Usage, Broader NVIDIA OptiX Support

Phoronix - Tue, 09/01/2020 - 02:03
Blender 2.90 is out as a huge feature update to this widely-used, cross-platform and open-source 3D modeling solution...

Canonical + SUSE Engineers Call For More Extensible Linux System Calls Moving Forward

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 23:52
Aleksa Sarai of SUSE and Christian Brauner of Canonical presented at last week's Linux Plumbers Conference with a call for more extensible system calls moving forward in aiming to enhance the Linux user-space API...

Red Hat Has Been Working On "stalld" As A Thread Stall Detector + Booster

Phoronix - Mon, 08/31/2020 - 22:11
Red Hat engineers in recent weeks began working on a new project called "starved" though recently renamed to "stalld". The stalld service is for serving as a Linux thread stall detector...

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