Michael Larabel

While it’s difficult still finding Intel Xeon 6 “Granite Rapids” motherboards/servers widely available at Internet retailers/distributors, when it comes to the AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” processors that launched just last month, there is better availability thanks in large part to […]

In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing

A new patch series posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would block kernel modules/drivers from TUXEDO Computers from accessing GPL-only symbols in the kernel. TUXEDO Computers maintains a set of kernel drivers currently out-of-tree for their various laptops

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board announced from SC24 that OpenMP 6.0 is now available as a major upgrade to the OpenMP specification for multi-process programming within C / C++ / Fortran. A big emphasis on OpenMP 6.0 is making it

The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9. There is a lot in store for Red Hat

Linux 6.10 introduced TPM bus encryption and integrity protection for enhancing the Trusted Platform Module support to protect against interposers from compromising them with TPM sniffing attacks. There is now a new option being added to opt-out of this protection

Canonical’s Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. Ubuntu 25.04 for release next April will have plenty more exciting enhancements from the desktop to lower down the

AMD today went public with details on the “AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler” as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM’s Flang. The AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler is a new open-source Fortran compiler focused on OpenMP offloading

Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes. Mesa 24.3-rc2

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with