Intel Continues Improving Its SYCL Stack - Now Supports Ahead-Of-Time Compilation
The Khronos SYCL standard as a single-source C++-based programming model for OpenCL is one of the exciting elements for Intel's GPU compute plans with the forthcoming Xe graphics cards and fits into their oneAPI umbrella. They just released their SYCL Compiler and Runtimes 2019-12 release with numerous updates...
Merging Of Flang/F18 Fortran Compiler Support Into LLVM Has Been Delayed
The modern F18/Flang Fortran front-end to LLVM had been set to land in the LLVM mono repository last Monday that could have made it included as part of the LLVM 10.0 branch set for that day. The LLVM 10.0 branching happened as planned but the landing of this Fortran support did not...
Linux 5.5-rc7 Kernel Released
The seventh weekly release candidate to Linux 5.5 is now available for testing...
LLVM Developers Discuss Improved Decision Making Process
LLVM project founder Chris Lattner has proposed a new decision making process for the LLVM compiler stack around new sub-project proposals, new social policies, changes to core infrastructure, and other key changes...
The MLIR-Targeting "FC" LLVM Fortran Compiler Is Now Open-Source
Last week we reported on "FC" as a new LLVM Fortran compiler targeting the new MLIR intermediate representation. That new Fortran compiler is now public and open-source...
Linux 5.5-rc6 Released With Some Notable Radeon Graphics Fixes Plus Other Random Work
Linus Torvalds has just issued Linux 5.5-rc6 as the latest test release ahead of the stable Linux 5.5 kernel due out in a few weeks...
OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Beta Adds Clang-Built Kernel Option, Experimental Zypper
In time for some weekend testing is the beta release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.1...
Amazon Engineers Introduce "DAMON" For Linux Kernel To Monitor Data Accesses
Amazon engineers announced their work today on "DAMON", a Linux kernel module for monitoring of data accesses for specific user-space processes...
OpenWrt 19.07 Released With WPA3 Support, Ath79 Target
The long awaited release of OpenWrt 19.07 took place this week for this Linux distribution popular for embedded, primarily networking devices...
Intel Media Driver Q4-19 Brings Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Better Encode/Decode
Quietly released over the holidays was Intel's quarterly update to the Intel Media Driver that serves as their modern open-source GPU-accelerated video encode/decode solution for Linux systems...