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Llamafile 0.8 Releases With LLaMA3 & Grok Support, Faster F16 Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 18:36
Llamafile has been quite an interesting project out of Mozilla's Ocho group in the era of AI. Llamafile makes it easy to run and distribute large language models (LLMs) that are self-contained within a single file. Llamafile builds off Llama.cpp and makes it easy to ship an entire LLM as a single file with both CPU and GPU execution support. Llamafile 0.8 is out now to join in on the LLaMA3 fun as well as delivering other model support and enhancing the CPU performance...

Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 18:17
In addition to many RadeonSI driver optimizations that were merged just prior to yesterday's code branching and Mesa 24.1-rc1 release, a number of Etnaviv driver improvements were also merged for benefiting that recent Vivante NPU IP open-source driver work...

How to Use Compound Expressions with Awk in Linux – Part 5

Tecmint - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 16:31
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All along, we have been looking at simple expressions when checking whether a condition has been met or not. What if you want to use

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Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:23
Shortly following today's Mesa 24.1 code branching, the first release candidate has been announced by ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom...

RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 05:04
Down to literally minutes before the Mesa 24.1 codebase was branched for making up this quarter's Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver to then be tested and stabilized with a stable release around mid-May, a number of AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver patches were merged...

Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability

Phoronix - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 00:53
AMD's GPUOpen team today released the Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 software that now sports interoperability with the Radeon GPU Analyzer...

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