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AMD's AOMP 19.0-2 Compiler Brings Zero-Copy For CPU-GPU Unified Shared Memory

Phoronix - Thu, 06/27/2024 - 17:56
AMD compiler engineers have released AOMP 19.0-2 as the newest version of their downstream LLVM/Clang compiler that carries all of their latest work around OpenMP/AOCC GPU device offloading to Radeon and Instinct hardware. With this updated AOMP compiler is now run-time support for zero-copy with CPU-GPU unified shared memory and various other new features for this GPU/accelerator-focused compiler...

Multi-Grain Timestamps Revived For Linux File-Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 06/27/2024 - 17:45
Last year a new kernel feature merged in Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps for file-systems as a means of better timestamp handling originally for NFS compared to the existing coarse-grained timestamps with the once per jiffy timestamps being used for invalidating NFS caches. But multi-grain timestamps was reverted just weeks after landing in the mainline kernel due to corner cases like a newer file with a coarse-grained timestamp appearing earlier than another file with a fine-grained timestamp. Due to subtle bugs like that, multi-grain timestamps were dropped before Linux 6.6 was even released while now there is a revised attempt...

Intel Granite Rapids Brings New "SBAF" Core Testing Capability

Phoronix - Thu, 06/27/2024 - 17:19
Upcoming Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors will support a new Structural Based Functional Test at Field (SBAF) testing capability to help verify the health of the CPU cores...

RHCSA Series: How to Manage Users and Groups in RHEL – Part 5

Tecmint - Thu, 06/27/2024 - 14:00
The post RHCSA Series: How to Manage Users and Groups in RHEL – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Managing a RHEL server, as it is the case with any other Linux server, will require that you know how

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RHCSA Series: Editing Text Files Using Nano, Vim, grep & regexps – Part 4

Tecmint - Thu, 06/27/2024 - 12:15
The post RHCSA Series: Editing Text Files Using Nano, Vim, grep & regexps – Part 4 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Every system administrator has to deal with text files as part of his daily responsibilities, which include editing existing files

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Free Software Foundation Names Three New Board Members

Phoronix - Thu, 06/27/2024 - 08:30
Following a more than one year long process, the Free Software Foundation today named three additional board members...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.22.29735.20 Brings Latest OpenCL & Level Zero Support On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 06/27/2024 - 07:05
Intel today issued the Compute Runtime 24.22.29735.20 release as their open-source driver providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero capabilities on Windows and Linux systems. This update was joined by an updated Intel Graphics Compiler, IGC 1.0.16900.23...

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