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Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM

Phoronix - Wed, 03/27/2024 - 18:22
The Intel open-source engineers working on the modern Xe DRM kernel graphics driver have begun looking at Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support for cross-device and cross-driver scenarios as the latest exciting feature work for this still-experimental driver...

TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/27/2024 - 17:57
TornadoVM is the OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that opens up the Java programming language to heterogeneous hardware support by allowing the easy targeting of Java code to TornadoVM targets including OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V -- in addition to CPUs. With the SPIR-V and OpenCL support in turn this means Java can run not only on GPUs but also some FPGAs and other devices...

How to Install Nagios XI on Ubuntu 22.04

Tecmint - Wed, 03/27/2024 - 16:34
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Nagios XI is a powerful monitoring tool used to monitor IT infrastructure and ensure the smooth operation of networks, servers, applications, and services. In this

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Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding

Phoronix - Wed, 03/27/2024 - 08:35
Meta's Yann Collet just released Zstd 1.5.6 as the newest version of this Zstandard compression implementation. This release is driven in part by Google Chrome 123 adding support for Zstd encoding for web traffic. Chrome now allows Zstandard (zstd) for the content-encoding to speed-up page load speeds and bandwidth savings...

Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/27/2024 - 00:38
Blender 4.1 is officially out today as the newest version of this wildly popular, open-source and cross-platform 3D modeling software...

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0

Phoronix - Tue, 03/26/2024 - 23:27
With the SDL library that's widely-used by cross-platform games with the current SDL 3.0 development code it prefers Wayland over X11, but a new pull request would temporarily revert that on the basis of the Wayland ecosystem still not being up to par...

Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops

Phoronix - Tue, 03/26/2024 - 22:30
The beta release of Fedora 40 is now available for testing ahead of the planned official release next month...

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