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BIOS Optimizations For AMD 5th Gen EPYC Yield Greater HPC Performance & Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 23:30
Using the 5th Gen EPYC BIOS tuning guide published by AMD, I recently looked at the impact of AI and machine learning optimized performance by adjusting some simple BIOS knobs as well as the Java throughput, latency and power efficiency for the EPYC 9005 class processors. In this article is following the AMD BIOS tuning guide to see what performance difference there is for high performance computing (HPC) workloads following the BIOS tuning recommendations compared to the defaults with an AMD EPYC 9575F server.

AMD GPU Driver Engineer Marek Olšák Lands Mesa 25.0 Optimizations For Christmas

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 22:30
Longtime open-source Radeon graphics driver developer Marek Olšák that is well known for his Mesa improvements over the years and countless optimizations even before being employed by AMD has seen some exciting patches merged just in time for Christmas...

Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Production Support For Battlemage GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 21:40
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.48.31907.7 just released a few minutes ago as a Christmas Eve treat for Intel Linux graphics compute users. This updated open-source OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero driver stack now advertises production support for Battlemage (BMG / Xe2) discrete graphics along with other optimization and feature work...

Uncached Buffered I/O Aims To Be Ready For Linux 6.14 With Big Gains

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 19:40
Linux I/O expert and storage expert Jens Axboe of Meta is hoping to have the uncached buffered I/O support squared away for Linux 6.14 -- a feature that's been a half-decade in the making...

libcamera 0.4 Released For Open-Source Camera Stack/Framework

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 19:26
A new release of libcamera is now available for this open-source camera stack solution that is increasingly used now for getting newer web cameras working on Linux and similar. With the libcamera 0.4 release there is improved hardware support and other enhancements to this camera framework solution...

Linux 6.14 AMD PMF Driver To Handle Custom BIOS Inputs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 19:14
The AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" driver is set to see some enhancements come the Linux 6.14 merge window...

FFmpeg Landing A Number Of Improvements For HDR

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 18:54
The widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library saw a number of commits land yesterday for enhancing the support around High Dynamic Range (HDR) content...

How to Set Up an AI Development Environment on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 15:11
The post How to Set Up an AI Development Environment on Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving fields in technology today. With AI, machines are

The post How to Set Up an AI Development Environment on Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

How to Append a Line After a String in a File Using sed Command

Tecmint - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 13:36
The post How to Append a Line After a String in a File Using sed Command first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re working with text files on a Linux system, you may need to modify the contents of those files.

The post How to Append a Line After a String in a File Using sed Command first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

GIMP 3.0 RC1 Makes It Into Ubuntu 25.04

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 05:08
As a follow-up to the article about Ubuntu 25.04 preparing for GIMP 3.0 in its repositories, this past week finally brought the GIMP 3.0 release candidate into the Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" repository...

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