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

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 by way of their GPUOpen group have released version 3.1 of the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator...

7 Features Windows 12 Should Steal From Linux  How-To Geek

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...

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

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...

Ultramarine Linux 40 is a Refreshing Distro Upgrade  It's FOSS News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 26th, 2024  9to5Linux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 26th, 2024  9to5Linux

Alpine Linux 3.20.0: Introducing 64-bit RISC-V Architecture  Fossbytes

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The Linux 6.10-rc1 kernel was just released to top off the Linux 6.10 merge window...

Linux 6.10-rc1 Kernel Released With Many New Features  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.10 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Intel's open-source NPU "iVPU" Linux kernel driver for supporting their Neural Processing Unit beginning with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors is already seeing a code refactoring. The refactoring of this Intel accelerator driver is intended for allowing more versatile CPU and NPU combinations moving forward...

Intel NPU Driver Being Refactored For More Versatile CPU+NPU Handling  Phoronix

With the memory management "MM" updates merged for the Linux 6.10 there is now NUMA balancing support for multi-size transparent hugepages (THPs). This is yielding some nice performance results and there is also other work in this new kernel around multi-size THPs...

Linux 6.10 Supports NUMA Balancing For Multi-Size THPs  Phoronix