Open Source LLM

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With AI/ML Packages Added, YaST Improvements

Phoronix | July 2, 2020, 1 a.m. | Original

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 is out today as the Linux distribution built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 sources...

Open Source LLM|Intel

LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0

Phoronix | July 1, 2020, 11:16 p.m. | Original

The LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver that provides a software/CPU-based OpenGL implementation for running on systems as a fallback path when no GPU / hardware OpenGL driver is available, a vendor-neutral path for debug purposes, and similar use-cases, now has OpenGL 4.0 support...

Open Source LLM|Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel's IGC 1.0.4241 Graphics Compiler Adds DG1 Platform Support

Phoronix | July 1, 2020, 11:08 p.m. | Original

IGC 1.0.4241 is out this morning as the latest version of Intel's open-source graphics compiler that is used by their compute stack for oneAPI and OpenCL...

Open Source LLM

(PR) Khronos Group Releases SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification

TechPowerUp News | June 30, 2020, 1:34 p.m. | Original
Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating graphics and compute interoperability standards, announces the ratification and public release of the SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification. SYCL is a standard C++ based heterogeneous parallel programming framework for accelerating High Performance Computing (HPC), machine learning, embedded computing, and compute-intensive desktop applications on a wide range of processor architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and AI processors.The SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification is publicly availableNone
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Open Source LLM

AMD/ROCm "AOMP" Compiler Enables OpenMP 5.0 By Default, Preps For More Upstreaming

Phoronix | June 30, 2020, 11:30 a.m. | Original

AOMP 11.6-2 is out this evening as the final Radeon Open Compute update for H1'2020. This is AMD's LLVM Clang downstream focused on providing OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

Open Source LLM|Intel

Intel Unveils New "KMB" DRM Driver For Their New SoC With An ARM CPU + Movidius VPU

Phoronix | June 30, 2020, 9:46 a.m. | Original

Intel has introduced a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver for Linux...

Open Source LLM|Intel

Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification

Phoronix | June 30, 2020, 1 a.m. | Original

The Khronos Group has announced the provisional specification of SYCL 2020 as the newest version of this higher-level programming model originally designed for OpenCL that is based on pure single-source C++...

Open Source LLM

Lua 5.4 Released With New Garbage Collection Mode, Warning System

Phoronix | June 29, 2020, 9:56 a.m. | Original

Lua 5.4 shipped today as the newest version of the interpreter for this scripting programming language that is particularly popular for embedding within games and other applications...

Open Source LLM|Intel

Intel Media Driver 20.2.pre4 Brings DG1 Graphics Card Support

Phoronix | June 28, 2020, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Intel's open-source media team has released a new development snapshot of their media driver that provides GPU-accelerated video encode/decode capabilities on Linux...

Open Source LLM

LuxCore 2.4 Beta Brings Big Changes For This Open-Source Physically Based Renderer

Phoronix | June 27, 2020, 7:24 a.m. | Original

This leading open-source physically based renderer is about to get even better with the upcoming LuxCore 2.4 release...