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Intel's x86-simd-sort 4.0 Delivers A 2x Boost For AVX-512 Performance, Adds AVX2 Code

Phoronix - Wed, 11/01/2023 - 00:28
Earlier this year Intel published x86-simd-sort as a very speedy sorting library that initially leveraged AVX-512 instructions for 10x to 17x faster sorts. Numpy was one of the first major projects to adopt x86-simd-sort and OpenJDK more recently adopted it. Since the initial release we've seen more features and performance optimizations added. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 4.0 and it's delivering even greater performance while also adding an AVX2 code path to help those without AVX-512...

Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 22:35
Sent out this morning was the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature pull request of updated graphics/display drivers for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel. Notable this round is Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics now being considered stable / enabled out-of-the-box, Intel Lunar Lake graphics support has started to get underway, and AMD continues working on their upcoming hardware platforms...

NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 20:52
Earlier this month NVIDIA published the R545 Linux driver beta while today it's been promoted to the stable series with the NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux driver release...

Systemd Working On "Storage Target Mode" Feature - Inspired By Apple macOS

Phoronix - Tue, 10/31/2023 - 20:28
Lennart Poettering has been working on a new systemd feature called systemd-storagetm that is inspired by the Apple macOS "Target Disk Mode" feature...

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