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NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

A NVIDIA engineer has opened up a merge request to improve the wlroots Wayland library so compositors based on it can enjoy better gaming performance for dual-GPU systems, namely around laptops sporting a discrete NVIDIA GPU but can help other GPU hardware/drivers too...

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Qualcomm Publishes Open-Source Compiler & User-Space For Their Cloud AI Accelerator

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

Last month Qualcomm published updated patches for their Cloud AI 100 kernel driver to support this inference accelerator. The Qualcomm engineers said at the time that their user-space driver and associated compiler would be published shortly. That panned out and the user-space portion of this open-source AI inference stack was recently published...

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Qt 6.4.3 Released With 300+ Fixes

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

Qt 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to this current stable series of the Qt6 tool-kit. This release is another big one with 300+ fixes in tow...

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Mold 1.11 High Performance Linker Released With Initial POWER10 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

Mold 1.11 is out as the newest version of this open-source high performance linker that rivals the likes of LLVM LLD and GNU Gold for very speedy linking across multiple CPU architectures...

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PyTorch 2.0 Now Shipping With Better CPU & GPU Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March, 2023

Following the PyTorch Foundation talking up PyTorch 2.0 since the end of last year, today marks the PyTorch 2.0 release officially shipping. PyTorch 2.0 has significant optimizations to "supercharge" it with better performance for both CPU and GPU modes of operation...

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Khronos Developing SYCL SC For Safety-Critical C++ Heterogeneous Compute

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March, 2023

The SYCL single-source C++ based programming model has begun taking off with Intel investing in it heavily as part of their oneAPI / DPC++ compiler stack and a variety of different open-source projects bringing SYCL to the likes of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, CPU-based OpenMP implementations, SYCL to Vulkan, and more for heterogeneous compute needs. The Khronos Group announced today they have begun working on SYCL SC as a safety-critical variant of this heterogeneous compute programming model...

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DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay Renderer Code Published

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March, 2023

Last summer DreamWorks announced plans to open-source MoonRay, their production renderer used for films like The Bad Guys, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and other animated films. Today they have delivered on that exciting milestone with publishing the open-source code...

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Snapdragon-Powered Acer Aspire 1 Laptop Nearing Mainline Linux Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March, 2023

While Lenovo's ThinkPad X13s has generated a fair amount of attention for being a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC powered Arm laptop that supports running on the mainline Linux kernel, another option on the way is the Acer Aspire 1 that also makes use of a Qualcomm Soc...

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Fedora Workstation 38 Is Shaping Up To Be Another Fantastic Release

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 March, 2023

I've been playing around with the current development state of Fedora 38 the past few days on several test boxes. While only reaching Fedora 38 Beta this week, it already feels quite polished and stable. To sum it up quite simply, Fedora Workstation 38 is looking like it will be another fantastic release and continuing the modern Fedora Project trend of putting out a bleeding-edge Linux distribution yet production-ready and with far less blemishes compared to releases from years ago...