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Amazon's Bottlerocket Hits GA As Linux Distribution Optimized For Containers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 04:25
Earlier this year Amazon announced Bottlerocket as a Linux distribution for running containers. This week Bottlerocket crossed the general availability milestone...

State of cloud native development, Rust gets a foundation, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 03:47

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Intel's Linux Support Coming Together For The Dynamic Load Balancer 2.0

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 03:34
Intel's open-source engineers today sent out their latest patches bringing up the Dynamic Load Balancer 2.0 for the next-gen PCIe device that offers load-balanced, prioritized scheduling of core-to-core communication...

NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Supports AV1 Accelerated Video Decoding

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 01:50
One important bit not covered in today's GeForce RTX 3070/3080/3090 announcement but now detailed via the NVIDIA website is confirmation that the RTX 30 "Ampere" GPUs do in fact have dedicated AV1 hardware decode capabilities...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Series Launches With Impressive Specs, Competitive Pricing

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 00:39
As widely expected amid a constant flow of rumors and leaks in recent weeks, NVIDIA just revealed their GeForce RTX 3000 "Ampere" series...

New/Updated Benchmarks For August From TensorFlow Lite To ASTCENC

Phoronix - Tue, 09/01/2020 - 22:00
In addition to the new OpenBenchmarking.org now out in public "alpha", a number of new and updated test profiles were published in August for users of our open-source, cross-platform automated benchmarking software...

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