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AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 02:02
AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a reminder is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware...

XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 00:28
Red Hat today issued an "urgent security alert" for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users over XZ. Yes, the XZ tools and libraries for this compression format. Some malicious code was added to XZ 5.6.0/5.6.1 that could allow unauthorized remote system access...

Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads

Phoronix - Fri, 03/29/2024 - 22:18
Now that the Linux 6.9 merge window is past I've begun testing out this in-development kernel on more hardware platforms in the lab. While some performance boosts like Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" running faster on Linux 6.9 was to be expected given EPP tuning in the new kernel specific to those SoCs, one of the unexpected delights has been seeing AMD 4th Gen EPYC performance with some nice performance gains over Linux 6.8 stable.

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