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      Offloading Rust To GPUs Proves Capable Of High Performance With Memory Safety

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:30

    A new research paper published on LLVM offloading to GPU accelerators using the Rust programming language is talking up the prospects of making use of safe Rust code for GPU kernels while retaining Rust's memory safety and other advantages over C++ / CUDA / HIP...
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      ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:50

    Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it's left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux. Making it all the more surprising besides it coming from ARCTIC Cooling directly was that at the time they didn't even have a fan controller product with USB interface. Well, now it's launched and in turn is a great USB fan controller for Linux systems and retails for just $9 USD.
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      AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:05

    AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...
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      Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:09

    Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for helping reduce latency and ultimately enhancing real-time Linux performance...
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      Firefox 154 Now Available With "Manage AI" Quick Action

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:01

    Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser...
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      Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:11

    In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, and thermal control code. As not too much of a surprise, Intel and AMD driver updates dominate the power management changes for Linux 7.3...
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      KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:28

    KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release...
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      Con Kolivas Revives "-ck" Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas... And as part of that his work on the Brain F*** Scheduler that evolved into the MuQSS scheduler, all in the name of working to improve Linux desktop and mobile responsiveness. While a number of years ago he decided to retire from this out-of-tree Linux kernel work, out of the blue he announced a new -ck patch series today with updated MuQSS code...
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      Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:13

    The PowerPC pull request has already been sent in for the now open Linux 7.3 merge window. The headline feature this cycle on the POWER side is Rust kernel support for PowerPC 32-bit PPC32BE big endian and PowerPC 64-bit PPC64LE little endian architectures...