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How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops

Tecmint - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 12:21
The post How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The awk command is a powerful tool in Linux for processing and analyzing text files, which is particularly useful when

The post How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Rust Drama, Russian Kernel Maintainers & Other Top Linux Kernel Happenings Of 2024

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 05:12
With 2024 drawing quickly toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux kernel news of the year ranging from exciting performance optimizations and new features such as QR code error messages over to kernel drama around Russian kernel developers, Bcachefs disturbances, and the contentious growing Rust programming language use within the kernel...

SDL3 Adds Cross-Platform System Tray Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 02:56
A new feature landing in the SDL3 software/hardware abstraction library today that is commonly used by cross-platform games is a native system tray implementation that works across operating systems...

BIOS Optimizations For AMD 5th Gen EPYC Yield Greater HPC Performance & Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 23:30
Using the 5th Gen EPYC BIOS tuning guide published by AMD, I recently looked at the impact of AI and machine learning optimized performance by adjusting some simple BIOS knobs as well as the Java throughput, latency and power efficiency for the EPYC 9005 class processors. In this article is following the AMD BIOS tuning guide to see what performance difference there is for high performance computing (HPC) workloads following the BIOS tuning recommendations compared to the defaults with an AMD EPYC 9575F server.

AMD GPU Driver Engineer Marek Olšák Lands Mesa 25.0 Optimizations For Christmas

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 22:30
Longtime open-source Radeon graphics driver developer Marek Olšák that is well known for his Mesa improvements over the years and countless optimizations even before being employed by AMD has seen some exciting patches merged just in time for Christmas...

Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Production Support For Battlemage GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 12/24/2024 - 21:40
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.48.31907.7 just released a few minutes ago as a Christmas Eve treat for Intel Linux graphics compute users. This updated open-source OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero driver stack now advertises production support for Battlemage (BMG / Xe2) discrete graphics along with other optimization and feature work...

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