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AOMP 22.0-1 Brings Many Improvements For AMD's Fortran Compiler GPU Offloading

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 21:42
AOMP 22.0-1 was released on Wednesday as the newest routine update to this downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang maintained by AMD that continues to carry their latest modifications for enhancing the C/C++/Fortran compiler offloading support to AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware using the likes of OpenMP and OpenACC...

LLVM/Clang 22 Merges Support For Intel Nova Lake "-march=novalake"

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 21:25
Merged today to LLVM Git for next spring's LLVM 22.0 release is support for the Intel Nova Lake ISA targeting with the "-march=novalake" option...

Mesa NVK Lands Support For VK_NVX_image_view_handle - Needed For NVIDIA DLSS

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 20:24
Just days ago Valve developer Autumn Ashton announced initial NVIDIA DLSS upscaling for the open-source Mesa NVK driver. One of those needed Vulkan extensions, VK_NVX_image_view_handle, is already merged to Mesa Git...

Latest Linux Patches For Homa Posted: TCP Alternative With 10~100x Lower Tail Latency

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 18:43
Posted to the Linux networking mailing list on Wednesday were the latest patches for enabling the Homa transport protocol. Homa is the clean-sheet design aiming to become an alternative to TCP within data centers and capable of offering 10~100x reductions in tail latency for short messages...

Proposed Patches Make Upstream Linux Kernel Usable For The OpenWrt One Router

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 18:30
Announced nearly one year ago was the OpenWrt One as a router/AP that is "hacker-friendly" and open-source. The OpenWrt One is powered by a Filogic 820 SoC and features WiFi 6. This official OpenWrt device is manufactured by Banana Pi. While there is downstream open-source code available for customizing the OpenWrt One to your heart's content, the upstream Linux kernel support to date hasn't been full-featured...

Intel Proposes "SYCLBIN" As New Format For SYCL Device Code

Phoronix - Thu, 10/16/2025 - 18:15
SYCLBIN has been proposed by a longtime Intel compiler expert as a new way for storing SYCL device code for use as part of their GPU/XPU programming ambitions...

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