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      The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:13

    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 • 15:45

    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 • 14:51

    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 • 13:10

    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 • 11:47

    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 • 10:27

    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...
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      Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    Nearly one year ago to the day I noted Linux developers were considering the removal of the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the kernel. They were orphaned the past decade and turning into a maintenance burden for upstream developers. But then to some surprise, a few developers stepped up to maintain the HFS(+) drivers. One year later it's proving to be a success story with more fixes for this aging Apple file-system support continuing...
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      Btrfs Brings Performance Improvements, Shutdown ioctl Stable With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:55

    Among the early pull requests sent out to Linus Torvalds even before the Linux 7.0 kernel officially released on Sunday were the Btrfs file-system updates. This feature-packed CoW file-system is seeing more performance optimizations for Linux 7.1 as well as its shutdown ioctl feature no longer being experimental and a variety of fixes...
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      GNU Linux-libre 7.0 Deals With Deblobbing More Drivers & Cleansing DT Files

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:35

    Building off last night's release of the Linux 7.0 kernel is now the GNU Linux-libre 7.0-gnu kernel release for that downstream kernel that removes support for loading non-free-software kernel modules, blocks the loading of loadable microcode/firmware even when it means greatly reduced hardware support, and other sanitization of code in the name of software freedom...