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SMT Remains Very Advantageous For 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance

After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here ...

2025-02-06 10:50

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AMD Talks Up IREE/MLIR Programming For Ryzen AI NPUs

While the AMDXDNA driver was merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs atop a mainline kernel build, there's still the user-space software needed for making use of the neural processing units found in Ryzen AI SoCs. AMD talked mor...

2025-02-06 10:00

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Intel's OpenVINO 2025.0 Brings Support For Deepseek Models, Better AI Performance

Intel's software engineers working on the OpenVINO AI toolkit today released OpenVINO 2025.0 that brings support for the much talked about Deepseek models along with other large language models (LLMs), performance improvements to some of the existing m...

2025-02-06 08:34

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LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released With Many Improvements

LibreOffice 25.2 is out this morning as the newest half-year update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite...

2025-02-06 08:13

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Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month

Mesa 25.0-rc2 was released yesterday and it's rather boring on the changes, but that's a good thing during this bug fixing phase...

2025-02-06 06:56

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GNU Gold Linker Is Deprecated & Will Be Gone For Good Without New Developers

With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together w...

2025-02-06 06:39

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PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop

Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop...

2025-02-06 06:24

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Google Interested In The Modern Intel Xe Linux Kernel Driver On Alder Lake

The modern Intel "Xe" Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver as the clean successor to the i915 driver has been an experimental option for Tigerlake and newer but only for Xe2 graphics (Lunar Lake / Battlemage) and newer is it used by defau...

2025-02-05 20:40

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Bisecting The Linux 6.14 Performance Regression With System76 Thelio + AMD Threadripper

Yesterday I showcased Linux 6.14 Git performance worse than Linux 6.13 and 6.12 in a number of multi-threaded workloads. Due to that initial discover being on the lone AMD EPYC Turin 2P server that is always busy running through new benchmarks for futu...

2025-02-05 16:30

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NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM

Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as ...

2025-02-05 14:00

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AMD Announces Open-Source "Schola" Library For Reinforcement Learning

AMD announced today the release of Schola 1.0 as an open-source reinforcement learning library that is being made available under an MIT license and as part of their GPUOpen software collection for helping game developers...

2025-02-05 11:57

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Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More

Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Patches For Linux Updated, Intel RAR Eyed Next

One of the set of patches for the Linux kernel that we have been looking forward to but that wasn't wrapped up in time for the recent Linux v6.14 merge window was the work enabling use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction on Zen 3 CPUs and newer for broadcas...

2025-02-05 10:29

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Linux Foundation Announces The SEAPATH 1.0 Hypervisor

The Linux Foundation by way of their LF Energy initiative announced today the release of SEAPATH 1.0, a security-hardened real-time hypervisor...

2025-02-05 10:05

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Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" For Handling Firmware With Confidential VMs

Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidenti...

2025-02-05 08:55

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Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" As Their Newest Open-Source Project

Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidenti...

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New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs

Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen ...

2025-02-05 06:52

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cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...

2025-02-05 06:36

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GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility

The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone...

2025-02-05 06:22

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Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1

While having missed the mark last week for making it into this quarter's Mesa 25.0 release, merged for Q2's Mesa 25.1 release by Microsoft engineers are some enhancements to the Direct3D 12 video encode capabilities...

2025-02-04 20:54

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