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AMD ZenDNN 5.0.1 Released To Help With EPYC Inferencing For Recommender Systems & LLMs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 05:35
Released last year shortly after the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 for Zen 5 optimized CPU inferencing with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. ZenDNN 5.0 delivers up to a 400% performance uplift according to AMD engineers. Out today is ZenDNN 5.0.1 with further optimizations, particularly around recommendation engines and large language models (LLMs)...

LLVM/Clang 20.1 Released With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2, AMD GFX950 & Much More

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 04:25
LLVM 20.1 was just tagged in Git as the first stable version of the LLVM 20 compiler stack including sub-projects like the Clang 20 C/C++ Compiler...

Firefox 137 Beta Now Available With VA-API Accelerated H.265/HEVC On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 00:51
With Firefox 136 released, Mozilla has promoted Firefox 137 to its beta phase...

Intel Finds More Women Getting Involved In Open-Source, Maintainer Burnout Continues

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 23:54
Intel has been running an annual open-source developer survey and they recently wrapped up their survey for 2024 and today published the results to provide various insight into the health of open-source development...

ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App

Phoronix - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 23:07
There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they now offer a GUI to ease the setup process for using their commercial VPN service and proprietary software package...

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