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NVIDIA CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced
4+ hour, 54+ min ago (127+ words) As a wonderful Christmas gift to open-source fans, NVIDIA dropped their proprietary license on the CUDA Tile intermediate representation and has now made the IR open-source software... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage…...
GCC Developers Considering Whether To Accept AI/LLM-Generated Patches
1+ week, 3+ day ago (133+ words) The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors…...
Oracles Releases Updated "bpftune" For BPF-Based Auto-Tuning Of Linux Systems
1+ week, 5+ day ago (151+ words) The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new…...
Linux I3C Gains "HDR" Support For Faster Data Transfers
2+ week, 3+ day ago (165+ words) I2C in Linux 6.19 brought support for Rust-written I2C drivers. The newer I3C "Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit" interface changes have now been merged and the big feature there is HDR support. Not to be confused with the more common High Dynamic Range acronym usage for…...
Using AI To Modernize The Ubuntu Error Tracker Produced Some Code That Was "Plain Wrong"
2+ week, 4+ day ago (165+ words) A week ago I wrote about AI being used to help modernize Ubuntu's Error Tracker. Microsoft GitHub Copilot was tasked to help adapt its Cassandra database usage to modern standards. It's worked in some areas but even for a rather…...
The Incredible Evolution Of AMD EPYC HPC Performance Shown In The Azure Cloud
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (519+ words) Last week the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances reached general availability as powered by the custom EPYC 9V64H CPUs with HBM3 memory. These very interesting EPYC processors for memory bandwidth intensive workloads were announced last year while have finally reached GA with jaw-dropping results…...
Qualcomm Plumbing "SSR" Support To Deal With Crashes On AI Accelerators
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (157+ words) Crashes on NPUs and AI accelerators are unfortunately a thing and yet another obstacle to worry about it with modern computing. Qualcomm developers have sent out patches for Sub-System Restart "SSR" functionality for their Qualcomm AI Accelerator (QAIC) driver for…...
PyTorch 2.9 Released With Easier Install Support For AMD ROCm & Intel XPUs
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (139+ words) PyTorch 2.9 is out today ahead of the PyTorch Conference happening next week in San Francisco. Notable with PyTorch 2.9 is better AMD ROCm and Intel XPU installation support via expanded wheel variant support... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming…...
Python 3.14 Performance Running Strong In Benchmarks
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (136+ words) With this week's release of Python 3.14 bringing performance improvements, debugging improvements, a new Zstd compression module, and other enhancements I have been eager to run some benchmarks seeing how Python 3.14 compares to prior Python releases. For those curious about Python…...
ZLUDA 5 Released With An Offline Compiler For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (127+ words) ZLUDA 5 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for running CUDA software on non-NVIDIA GPUs... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals ZLUDA 5 Released With An Offline…...