Linux 5.7-rc4 Released As A Pleasantly Calm Kernel
Linus Torvalds just announced the Linux 5.7-rc4 kernel release is up for testing...
Open-Source OpenXR Runtime Monado Seeing Better Performance, New Functionality
Monado, the open-source OpenXR run-time implementation for Linux, has been advancing quite well since we last reported on it back in February with its inaugural v0.1 release...
The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape
The open-source Godot Game Engine lead developer Juan Linietsky has published a new Vulkan progress report, the first in three months, and as such there are a lot of changes...
AMD AOMP 11.5 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs
Released on Wednesday was AOMP 11.5 as the latest version of the AMD/ROCm compiler based off LLVM Clang and focused on OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...
(PR) Khronos Group releases OpenCL 3.0 specifications
OpenCL 3.0 Bringing Greater Flexibility, Async DMA Extensions
OpenCL 3.0 is being released today in provisional form. OpenCL 3.0 is making OpenCL 2.x functionality now optional to make it better suited for a range of devices plus there is new functionality introduced like subgroups, extensions for asynchronous data copies, and more.
Linux 5.7-rc3 Kernel Released: "In A World Gone Mad, The Kernel Looks Almost Boringly Regular"
Linus Torvalds just released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel...
AMD Joins The Academy Software Foundation, Open Shading Language Becomes Hosted Project
Some news that went seemingly unreported at large this month until stumbling across it... AMD has joined the Academy Software Foundation as a premier member. This joint initiative between the Linux Foundation and Academy of Motion Picture Arts is focused on pushing open-source software through the motion picture and content creation industries. Additionally, the Open Shading Language has become a new hosted project under the Academy Software Foundation...
Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.7 As Their Great Speech-To-Text Engine
One of the lesser known Mozilla software efforts is DeepSpeech as a speech-to-text engine built atop TensorFlow with CPU and GPU (CUDA) acceleration. Friday marked a new release of this DeepSpeech software that is yielding great results for converting spoken audio streams to text...
Intel ISPC 1.13 Compiler Brings Performance Boost To AVX-512 Systems
Intel's ISPC compiler (Implicit SPMD Program Compiler) for targeting its C-based single-program, multiple data language is out now with a new feature release...