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FFmpeg Now Supports GPU Inference With Intel's OpenVINO

Phoronix - Sun, 09/20/2020 - 21:41
Earlier this summer Intel engineers added an OpenVINO back-end to the FFmpeg multimedia framework. OpenVINO as a toolkit for optimized neural network performance on Intel hardware was added to FFmpeg for the same reasons there is TensorFlow and others also supported -- support for DNN-based video filters and other deep learning processing...

OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks

Phoronix - Sun, 09/20/2020 - 21:17
In addition to XDC2020 this past week, the Linux Foundation hosted the virtual OpenPOWER Summit North America 2020 event as well with a mix of interesting hardware and software presentations...

Intel SGX Enclave Support Sent Out For Linux A 38th Time

Phoronix - Sun, 09/20/2020 - 20:17
It's still not clear when Intel SGX support will be accepted for the mainline Linux kernel...

Getting credit: Taking your place in a meritocracy

opensource.com - Sun, 09/20/2020 - 15:00

Imagine these situations (women, minorities, and junior associates in organizations deal with them regularly, but they can happen to anyone):


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Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor Making Progress On Booting Windows

Phoronix - Sun, 09/20/2020 - 14:50
The Cloud-Hypervisor project that is led by Intel open-source folks for providing a cloud-focused hypervisor written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release...

RenderDoc 1.10 Released For This Leading Cross-Platform Graphics Debugger

Phoronix - Sun, 09/20/2020 - 12:04
RenderDoc 1.10 was released on Friday for this leading open-source program supporting frame-capture-based debugging on Vulkan, OpenGL / GLES, and Direct3D across Windows, Linux, and Android along with platforms like Stadia and the Nintendo Switch...

AMDGPU TMZ + HDCP Should Allow Widevine DRM To Behave Nicely With AMD Linux Systems

Phoronix - Sun, 09/20/2020 - 03:15
Coming together this year for the mainline Linux kernel was the AMDGPU Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) capability for encrypted video memory support with Radeon GPUs. This topic was talked about at this week's XDC2020 conference...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Seeing Some 50~100% FPS Gains

Phoronix - Sat, 09/19/2020 - 22:45
After working on getting the Zink OpenGL-over-Vulkan driver up to OpenGL 4.6 with still pending patches, former Samsung OSG engineer Mike Blumenkrantz has been making remarkable progress on the performance aspect as well...

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