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      GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware...
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      Coreboot Comes To AMD Ryzen Powered Star Labs StarBook MK VI After 3+ Year Wait

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    For those that had purchased a StarBook MK VI laptop 3+ years ago over the advertised support for Coreboot, Star Labs has now delivered with a Coreboot build finally available and working for this AMD Ryzen 5000 series powered laptop...
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      user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets...
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      The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers...
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      NVIDIA Hiring More LLVM Engineers To Work On CUDA Tile

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    Last year NVIDIA announced the new CUDA Tile programming model as one of the biggest updates ever to the CUDA platform. CUDA Tile brings a virtual ISA for tile-based parallel programming and they subsequently open-sourced the CUDA Tile IR as an intermediate representation built atop LLVM's MLIR. Now they are looking to hire additional LLVM compiler engineers to help foster their CUDA Tile initiatives...
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      Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates...
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      FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system. The FTRFS proposal is more interesting than last week's VMUFAT file-system proposal...
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      Servo Browser Engine Making It Easier For Embedded Use

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use...
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      Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 days ago

    For those wishing to make use of modern OpenCL 3.0 capabilities on AMD APUs/SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics using Mesa's Rusticl driver, an improvement was merged this weekend to the RadeonSI driver ahead of this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release...