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55th TOP500 Supercomputer List Topped By Arm-Based Fujitsu A64FX

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 23:57
The newest TOP500 supercomputer list was published today. The newest TOP500 list includes more positions for AMD EPYC supercomputers but to some surprise the Arm-based Fujitsu A64FX-powered supercomputer has topped the list...

Open-Source NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing" 3D Driver Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 22:00
Going back to the end of 2018 was initial open-source "Nouveau" driver work on RTX 2000 / Turing GPUs as of Linux 5.0. But due to the lack of signed firmware images at the time, there was no actual hardware acceleration but just display/modesetting. The accelerated Turing support has come together recent so now here are benchmarks showing the open-source GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2080 performance of this open-source driver compared to the proprietary official driver.

LibreOffice 7.0 Beta 2 Released For This Open-Source, Vulkan-Supported Office Suite

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 20:50
LibreOffice 7.0 is aiming for release in early August but for that release to be a success they need help in testing...

GNOME Shell Continues Eyeing Improvements As It Approaches 10 Years Old

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2020 - 20:33
While GNOME 3.0 didn't debut until early 2011, GNOME 3.0 and GNOME Shell have now been in development for a decade. While GNOME Shell has come a long way over the past ten years, the UI/UX folks are still eyeing further enhancements to this widely used Linux desktop...

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