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AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 08:13
Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models...

Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 02:09
After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporting the Gaudi AI accelerators...

Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 23:06
The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor...

AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 22:00
Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks and more details on the open-source Linux driver support for these first AMD RDNA4 graphics cards.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 22:00
In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards. Here is a look at some initial GPU compute benchmarks of the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, mostly on cross-vendor OpenCL benchmarks, and a few words on the GPU compute stack support for the Radeon RX 9070.

Making Vulkan More Of A "Joy To Use" Discussed At Vulkanised 2025

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 19:57
In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month's Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and maximizing the potential with new GPU hardware...

FreeDesktop.org GitLab Will Be Down For Up To One Week Due To Cloud Migration

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 19:40
The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration...

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