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      Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:26

    Just over one year ago Intel Linux engineers began working on cache-aware load balancing for Linux or more commonly referred to as Cache Aware Scheduling. The functionality for helping modern Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors especially hasn't yet been upstreamed to the Linux kernel but yesterday the fourth version of these patches were posted for review...
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      IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:37

    Following this morning's announcement of IBM working with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware, we have some more details on at least what's happening from the software side... It's improving Arm virtualization on IBM Z Systems (s390)...
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      AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:12

    With the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out in three weeks, I have been re-testing a number of different devices on this newest Ubuntu release. One of the most significant improvements to note was when running the Framework Desktop with Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" and quantifying the performance gains of the Radeon 8060S Graphics since launch last year. Here's a look at how the Vulkan and OpenGL performance has evolved for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 since its launch last year in going from Ubuntu 26.04 to Ubuntu 26.04.
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      IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:30

    IBM announced today a strategic collaboration with Arm around new dual-architecture hardware...
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      CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:25

    The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories...
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      Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:13

    A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers...
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      KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:01

    KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release, KTransformers 0.5.3 is now more applicable for CPUs lacking Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512 in now providing some AVX2-only kernels too...
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      Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4:00

    Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events. The Lua plug-in support was introduced last year with libinput 1.30 but unfortunately some security issues have now come to light with the implementation...
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      Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:44

    If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare...