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Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2024 - 04:46
Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog. He's also taken up a new task: further accelerating Wayland protocol development...

ChipStar 1.2 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V/OpenCL Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2024 - 02:51
ChipStar 1.2 has been released as the open-source software enabling HIP/CUDA programs to be compiled and run atop SPIR-V whether it be OpenCL or Vulkan drivers...

Intel Working To Improve Virtualization Handling For P/E-Core Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 09/26/2024 - 00:03
While Intel has been making steady progress around enhancing the Linux kernel handling for CPUs with a mix of P and E cores for proper task placement and power optimizations, one area that still is less than desirable for these hybrid Intel Core processors is around virtualization. But Intel engineers are now actively working on improving the Linux virtualization infrastructure for being able to convey the P/E core differences among vCPUs so that the guest VMs can better behave in such environments...

Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 22:30
Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

Cloudflare Goes With AMD EPYC Genoa-X For Their Next-Gen Servers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/25/2024 - 21:45
Cloudflare's always-interesting technical blog laid out their details today concerning their next-gen "12th Generation" in-house servers that will be powering their vast web infrastructure. With these next-gen Cloudflare servers they are going with AMD EPYC 9684X Genoa-X processors...

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