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Quantum computing, the open source way

opensource.com - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 15:00
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The quantum vision of reality is both strange and mesmerizing at the same time. As theoretical physicist Michio Kaku once said, "Common sense has no place in quantum mechanics."


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The Matrix Of Software Projects Mapping Khronos APIs From DXVK To Zink & CLVK

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 14:30
Neil Trevett, the president of the Khronos Group, presented at the X.Org Developers' Conference for the first time. During his presentation on Wednesday he covered their usual initiatives, how Khronos engages in open-source and open standards, and related bits -- plus a few interesting ones...

Fedora 32 Planning To Ship With GNU Binutils 2.33

Phoronix - Fri, 10/04/2019 - 12:21
Not particularly surprising considering Fedora tends to always ship with a bleeding-edge toolchain, but for their Fedora 32 release to kick off 2020 they are planning for GNU Binutils 2.33...

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...

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