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OpenVINO 2023.2 Released With More Generative AI Coverage & Broader LLM Support

Phoronix - Fri, 11/17/2023 - 00:18
Intel has released OpenVINO 2023.2 as the newest version of their open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference. OpenVINO continues in its never-ending quest for maximizing deep learning performance and efficiency while continuing to expand in its model support and features...

Linux - Network World

Google News - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 23:45
Linux  Network World

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preparing For Enabling New LSDMA Ring Mode

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 23:21
Going back to May 2022, AMD Linux graphics driver engineers were working on AMDGPU driver patches to enable a new Light System DMA "LSDMA" IP block. Since then we haven't heard much about LSDMA until some new patches surfaced yesterday for optionally enabling the LSDMA ring mode for the AMDGPU kernel driver...

Intel QATlib 23.11 Brings New Crypto Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 23:04
Intel has rolled out a new quarterly update to QATlib, its QuickAssist Technology library for Linux systems to enjoy hardware acceleration of various crypto and compression algorithms on QAT Gen 4 hardware...

Ubuntu 23.10 Is Maxing Out Zstd Compression For Its Kernel Build

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 22:55
Dimitri John Ledkov of the Ubuntu kernel team has written about some of the improvements made for the default kernel build on Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu's Linux kernel build is now using much less disk space, lower RAM use, and much faster initrd generation...

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