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Red Hat and NVIDIA: Powering innovation at the edge

Red Hat News - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 12:00

Enterprises and telecommunication providers are looking at the edge as the newest IT footprint, observing the development of intelligent edge applications and monitoring the shift of workloads from traditional datacenters to the outer boundaries of public and private networks.

Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 12:00

As we move deeper into the era of cloud computing, one thing remains clear: There’s no silver bullet for organization-wide digital transformation. We often see IT decision-makers seeking prescriptive guidance around the changing requirements of IT operations and application development in a containerized world.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 06:48
A year after the transition started to import Unity 8 into Ubuntu Touch, the work is now ready for users with the newly released Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 by the UBports crew...

Mesa 20.2 Picks Up A New Disk Cache: TGSI-To-NIR Caching

Phoronix - Thu, 05/14/2020 - 04:47
Mesa 20.2-devel has a new cache in place for TTN...

A Quick Run With The FSGSBASE Patches On Intel + AMD

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 23:57
FSGSBASE patches for the Linux kernel have been available for years albeit not mainlined to date. However, thankfully, a Microsoft Linux developer has taken up the cause to get them upstreamed given the performance benefits they are even seeing. Here are some benchmarks of the Linux kernel patches for FSGSBASE on both Intel and AMD CPUs.

Epic Games Preparing Unreal Engine 5 For Debut In 2021 With Increased Photo-Realism

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 23:54
Epic Games today offered the first glimpse at Unreal Engine 5, their next-generation game engine they hope to have out in preview form in early 2021 and for its official release before the end of next year...

Radeon Rays 4.0 Released - Adds Vulkan While Dropping OpenCL, No Longer Open-Source

Phoronix - Wed, 05/13/2020 - 22:39
Continuing with AMD's relaunch of GPUOpen and introducing new software releases all week, out this morning is Radeon Rays 4.0. It takes another step forward while taking a step back in terms of no longer being open-source...

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