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AMD Releases AOMP 20.0-0 For Radeon/Instinct Compiler Offloading

Phoronix - Thu, 10/17/2024 - 04:30
Following last week's release of the LLVM/Clang-downstream AOCC 5.0 for optimized compiler support extended to Zen 5 CPUs, the GPU side of the house at AMD this week released AOMP 20.0-0 as their LLVM/Clang downstream focused on GPU device offloading...

Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/17/2024 - 02:01
Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines...

Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows

Phoronix - Thu, 10/17/2024 - 01:11
Last week at the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2024) in Montreal there was a talk showcasing Mesa's open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver running atop Windows 11...

Intel Lunar Lake vs. AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 23:30
For those that have been eager to see more Intel Core Ultra Series 200V Lunar Lake Linux testing, here is the latest installment of testing as well as an update from Intel following my Lunar Lake Linux testing recent reports. Today's article is looking at Intel Lunar Lake versus AMD Strix Point across different ACPI Platform Profile configurations for whether you are after peak performance or the most power savings.

GCC Preparing To Set C23 "GNU23" As Default C Language Version

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:15
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support for the C23 programming language standard is now considered "essentially feature-complete" with GCC 15. As such they are preparing to enable the C23 language version (using the GNU23 dialect) by default for the C language version of GCC when not otherwise specified...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2 Brings AMD ROCm + Instinct Tech Preview

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:00
Red Hat has announced the GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2. RHEL AI was announced earlier this year as Red Hat's AI solution for a foundation model platform to develop / test / run Granite GenAI models. Not to be confused with the RHEL operating system itself, RHEL AI is all about building large language models for enterprise software with Granite LLMs and InstructLab tooling...

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