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Can open, collaborative tactics help us crack COVID-19?

opensource.com - Sun, 06/28/2020 - 15:00

At least 109 organizations are currently working on treatment for COVID-19. But many researchers believe an approved, effective vaccine against the coronavirus will not be available in 2020.


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5+ Years Late: LLVM's AMD Excavator Target Was Missing Two Features

Phoronix - Sun, 06/28/2020 - 14:40
It took until 2020 for an Intel developer to land a patch providing support for two instructions supported by AMD "Excavator" CPUs but not exposed by the "bdver4" target...

RISC-V UEFI Linux Support Under Review

Phoronix - Sun, 06/28/2020 - 12:09
Following Linux's UEFI code getting cleaned up earlier this year in preparation for RISC-V support being added and then some early RISC-V UEFI patches, a more comprehensive set of patches for enabling UEFI support on RISC-V under Linux have been sent out...

An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2

Phoronix - Sun, 06/28/2020 - 06:00
Our recent benchmarks have shown WSL/WSL2 performance on the latest Windows 10 builds to generally be quite good compared to running bare metal Linux. But past the May 2020 Update and on the latest Insider Preview builds is the initial support for GPU acceleration in conjunction with updated Windows graphics drivers. The initial emphasis is on GPU compute with DirectML and for NVIDIA hardware CUDA support as well. Here are a couple CUDA benchmarks that ran gracefully under WSL2 albeit the performance leaves a lot to be desired...

LuxCore 2.4 Beta Brings Big Changes For This Open-Source Physically Based Renderer

Phoronix - Sun, 06/28/2020 - 03:24
This leading open-source physically based renderer is about to get even better with the upcoming LuxCore 2.4 release...

Intel Begins Volleying Open-Source Patches Around Intel AMX

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2020 - 23:00
Intel updated their instruction set extensions programming reference guide that along with other additions now details the Intel AMX (Advanced Matrix Extensions) coming with Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs next year...

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2020 - 22:33
Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" is shipping this weekend as the newest major release to this user-friendly desktop Linux distribution derived from the Ubuntu LTS package set...

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