While the Linux kernel has been seeing preparations from NVIDIA for 1.6 Tb/s networking in preparing for next-generation super-computing, the kernel has still retained support to now for the High Performance Parallel Interface. HIPPI was the standard for connecting supercomputers in the late 1980s and a portion of the 1990s with being the first networking standard for near-Gigabit connectivity at 800 Mb/s over distances up to 25 meters. But HIPPI looks like it will

Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list this afternoon were a set of 19 patches in preparing for some new CPU features presumably to be found with AMD's next-generation EPYC "Venice" processors.

Thanks to AMD getting Zen 6 "znver6" support already into the GCC 16 compiler we already know about the new CPU ISA features coming with their next-generation processors. Now on the EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" side we learn of some new features coming to benefit their next-gen servers

Back at CES earlier this month AMD talked up features of the ROCm 7.2 release. ROCm 7.2 though wasn't actually released then, at least not for Linux. That ROCm 7.2.0 release though was pushed out today as the latest improvement to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack and officially extending the support to more Radeon graphics cards.

ROCm 7.2 officially now supports the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9600D and AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 26.0-rc1 with the code for this quarter's Mesa feature release now branched and under a feature freeze leading up to the stable release in February.

Mesa 26.0 is shaping up to be a rather magnificent release especially for Radeon Vulkan "RADV" use. There is a lot of work on Vulkan ray-tracing for Radeon GPUs that were merged by Valve contributors, AMD, and others. Plus a lot of other general RADV improvements like typical performance optimizations

PyTorch 2.10 is out today as the latest feature update to this widely-used deep learning library. The new PyTorch release continues improving support for Intel GPUs as well as for the AMD ROCm compute stack along with still driving more enhancements for NVIDIA CUDA.

PyTorch 2.10 for AMD ROCm now enables grouped GEMM via regular GEMM fallback and via CK. There is also better ROCm support for PyTorch on Microsoft Windows, torch.cuda._compile_kernel support, load_inline support, GFX1

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.21 is now available for testing with the latest features for this portal frontend service to Flatpak.

New XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.21 features include a new reduced motion setting in the Settings Portal, to express your desire for apps to minimize non-essential motion in animations.

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.21 also adds support for Linyaps applications. Linyaps "Linyaps Is Not Yet Another Packaging System" is a cross-distribution Linux package format spearheaded by the

Ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle kicking off next month, the Apple Silicon Device Tree updates have been sent out for queuing ahead of that next merge window. Notable this round are the Device Tree additions for rounding out the USB 2.0/3.x support with the USB-C ports.

Sven Peter sent out the Apple SoC DT updates this week for the Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle and most notable is radding all the needed pieces around USB3

A new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list aims to address the high wake-up latency experienced on modern Intel Xeon server platforms. With Sapphire Rapids and newer, "excessive" wakeup latencies with the Linux menu governor and NOHZ_FULL configuration can negatively impair Xeon CPUs for latency-sensitive workloads but a 16 line patch aims to better improve the situation. That is, changing one line of actual code and the rest being code comments.

Cloud engineer Ionut Nechita of Wind River has been working to address the