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AMD Zen 6 Compiler Support Merged For GCC 16

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 19:24
Ahead of AMD releasing their Zen 6 EPYC and Ryzen processors in 2026, AMD today saw their Zen 6 "znver6" support land into the GCC 16 open-source compiler...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 Brings More Performance Optimizations & Xe3 Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 19:12
Intel this week released their last planned feature update to their open-source Compute Runtime for 2025. The Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 delivers the latest OpenCL and Level Zero performance optimizations, Xe3 workarounds, and other fixes for those on Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

AMD Wants Your Logs To Help Optimize PyTorch & ComfyUI For Strix Halo, Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 18:53
If you are not satisfied with the current performance for PyTorch or ComfyUI / Stable Diffusion on your Strix Halo APU system or with other consumer RDNA3/RDNA4 Radeon consumer GPUs, AMD engineers are interested in your logs to help better optimize the performance going forward...

Opus 1.6 Audio Codec Adds New Machine Learning Functionality

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 09:29
Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning "ML" based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5...

Run containerized AI models locally with RamaLama

Red Hat News - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 08:00
The open source AI ecosystem has matured quickly, and many developers start by using tools such as Ollama or LM Studio to run large language models (LLMs) on their laptops. This works well for quickly testing out a model and prototyping, but things become complicated when you need to manage dependencies, support different accelerators, or move workloads to Kubernetes.Thankfully, just as containers solved development problems like portability and environment isolation for applications, the same applies to AI models too! RamaLama is an open source project that makes running AI models in containe

More than meets the eye: Behind the scenes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Part 4)

Red Hat News - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 08:00
This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3In our previous installment of the story of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 came to be, we got insights into the testing process and how the headline features (and the stories around those features) started coming together. In part 4, those stories come into clearer focus as the team works to put the finishing t

Enterprise automation resilience with EDB and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat News - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 08:00
In today's modern technological world, IT infrastructure must deliver uncompromising speed and reliability to meet the critical demands of the business. Centralized automated platforms, such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, are essential for managing critical IT infrastructure. These platforms streamline operations and increase efficiency by standardizing and scaling automation across the entire organization, transforming complex, repetitive tasks into a governed, security-focused, and repeatable enterprise strategy.The platform’s fundamental value lies in its resilience. For mission-

Beyond modularity and other upgrades: The game-changer for your IT planning

Red Hat News - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 08:00
Scott and I talk to a lot of customers, and one theme that comes up over and over is that it’s difficult to plan for future releases of Linux. Sometimes, support drops for a feature or capability on which they rely. Other times, it’s that they can’t wait for a new feature, bug fix, and so on. Planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with its built-in digital roadmap, powered by Red Hat Lightspeed, is changing that. Product managers within RHEL now communicate directly with you about upcoming changes in the code base. This gives you more time to plan for changes, as well as clearer in

Linux Exposing Support For Lenovo ThinkPads Being Able To Detect Hardware Damage

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 07:57
Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software...

Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Presentation At LPC 2025

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 03:23
One of the exciting Intel innovations to the Linux kernel this year has been around the Cache Aware Scheduling for helping to deliver better performance on modern CPUs with multiple last level caches. The kernel patches have yet to be upstreamed but testing has shown to be quite promising for grouping tasks sharing data to the same LLC domain to help reduce cache misses and cache bouncing. Those wishing to learn more about Cache Aware Scheduling, there was a presentation on it last week by Intel engineers Tim Chen and Chen Yu at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo...

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