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Intel Has Been Quietly Developing A New Backend Compiler For Their OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 08:13
One of the interesting reveals so far from this week's X.Org Developers' Conference in Montreal is that Intel has been developing a new back-end compiler for their OpenGL/Vulkan Linux drivers based upon their experiences so far with their NIR support and the less learned over the past number of years...

Intel MKL-DNN 1.1 Released, Now Branded As The Deep Neural Network Library

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 04:32
Intel's open-source crew has had a busy week with their first public OpenVKL release, OSPray 2 hitting alpha, and now the release of MKL-DNN where they are also re-branding it as the Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL)...

Windows 10 vs. Eight Linux Distributions In Various "Creator" Workloads On An Intel Core i9

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 01:26
For those wondering about the current performance of desktop Linux distributions against Microsoft Windows 10 with the latest updates as we embark upon fall update season, here is a look at the performance of eight different Linux distributions compared to Windows 10. While a larger set of cross-platform tests are currently being worked on, for this article we are focusing on different "creator" workloads from video/audio encoding, render workloads, and related software prior to the larger comparison in the next week or two.

Blender 2.81 In Next Phase Of Development With NVIDIA RTX Optix, Intel Open Image Denoise

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 23:28
The Blender 2.81 release cycle has entered its "bcon2" development phase of development with the focus shifting to bug fixing and stabilizing new features with now being past the initial window of merging in the big ticket items...

PostgreSQL 12 Released As Newest Update To "World's Most Advanced Open-Source DB"

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 21:09
As was anticipated, PostgreSQL 12.0 is now officially available...

RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Several GFX10/Navi Fixes, Including To Address Random Hangs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 19:26
If you are a user of AMD Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" graphics and don't mind riding Mesa Git, the latest 19.3-devel code as of yesterday has several more GFX10 fixes/improvements...

Flatpak 1.5 Released With Version Pinning, Self-Updates In Portals

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 18:55
Flatpak 1.5 is the newest pre-release for this Linux app sandboxing and distribution tech...

ASTC Texture Compression License Turns Out To Be Restrictive Outside Of Khronos APIs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 18:44
The lossy ASTC texture compression algorithm has been widely adopted in recent years with it being official extensions to both OpenGL and OpenGL ES. While it may not be as messy as the S3TC patent situation of the past, it turns out Arm's license on Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression actually is quite restrictive outside of the context of Khronos' APIs...

AMDGPU Submits LRU Bulk Moves Support As A Linux 5.4 "Fix" For Better Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 16:59
While initially queued as a work-in-progress feature for Linux 5.5, AMD has now submitted a batch of "fixes" to the current Linux 5.4 cycle that include enabling of the LRU bulk moves performance-boosting functionality...

Setup a Centralized Log Server with Rsyslog in CentOS/RHEL 8

Tecmint - Thu, 10/03/2019 - 16:12
In order for a system administrators to recognize or analyze problems on a CentOS 8 or RHEL 8 server, it is important to know and view the events that occurred on the server in...

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