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FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 05:27
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 is now available for testing as this incremental update to FreeBSD 14 prepares for its stable release in June...

Intel Performance Limit Reasons For Linux To Report Why Your CPU Is Downclocking

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 01:23
Intel Performance Limit Reasons (PLR) can indicate why your CPU is downclocking / limited to a lower performance limit for a given core or die. With some Windows utilities this information this Intel CPU feature has been available there while now Intel is bringing PLR support to Linux too...

Intel Releases ISPC 1.24 With New AVX-VNNI & AVX512-VNNI Targets

Phoronix - Mon, 05/27/2024 - 22:37
The Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) is out with a new version today for this C programming language variant that features SPMD programming extensions. Intel ISPC aims to make it easy to take advantage of SIMD capabilities on their modern processors as well as GPUs...

AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 Improves Raspberry Pi Support

Phoronix - Mon, 05/27/2024 - 21:44
AMD by way of their GPUOpen group have released version 3.1 of the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator...

Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board

Phoronix - Mon, 05/27/2024 - 18:55
Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling Linux to boot on the LicheeRV Nano, a mini single board computer that comes in at a mere 22.86 x 35.56 mm. As interesting as the size with this SBC is the Sophgo SG2002 SoC that features a mix of RISC-V and ARM cores...

An End-User Has Made It Easier To Build ROCm & AMD GPU Machine Learning Software

Phoronix - Mon, 05/27/2024 - 18:26
An end-user and Phoronix reader has taken up creating his own AMD ROCm SDK build system to make it easier to setup a machine learning software stack from scratch on AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux. This open-source build system pulls in the AMD ROCm source code as well as AMD GPU-accelerated tools like PyTorch and ONNX and makes it easier to deploy and without having to rely on Docker or other solutions...

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