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AMD AOMP 0.7-7 Released For Radeon OpenMP Offloading

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 03:45
Announced at the end of last year was Radeon Open Compute 3.0 with the new "AOMP" compiler. Today a new version of AOMP has been released for OpenMP offloading support to AMD Radeon GPUs...

LLVM 10.0 RC4 Released Due To Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 03:25
LLVM 10.0-RC3 was released last week as what was supposed to be the last release candidate of the cycle after being challenged by delays already. However, last minute issues with RC3 has led to LLVM 10.0-RC4 coming out today...

Linux CFS Improvement Forthcoming To Help With Faster Spreading Of CPU Utilization

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 02:29
A rather simple improvement to the Linux CFS scheduler's load balancing code appears to have measurable benefits with helping to more quickly spread the task utilization across the system...

Intel Linux Driver Getting Skylake/Gen9 Port Sync To Fix 5K Tiled Display Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 02:02
A four year old Intel Linux display driver bug around corruption issues when trying to drive tiled displays (namely 5K+ setups with dual DisplayPort connections) on Intel "Gen9" graphics hardware for Skylake up until Icelake could soon be marked as resolved...

Intel Compute Runtime 20.10.16087 Released With oneAPI Level Zero Support

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2020 - 00:16
Intel Compute Runtime 20.10.16087 was released today as their latest weekly-ish tagged update to this open-source compute runtime for empowering their graphics hardware on Linux with OpenCL and oneAPI support...

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