#xpu — Public Fediverse posts

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 Adds Support for Multi-Frame Compressed Images:
https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-imager-2-0-11-adds-support-for-multi-frame-compressed-images

QEMU 11.1 Released with Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Emulation Support:
https://9to5linux.com/qemu-11-1-released-with-universal-flash-storage-ufs-emulation-support

FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-Beta-1

Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-July-2026

X is open sourcing its "For You" algorithm and letting users check for shadowbans:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/x-is-open-sourcing-its-for-you-algorithm-and-letting-users-check-for-shadowbans/

VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17416952/vlc-microsoft-defenders-drama
(Normies gonna protect their favorite enslavement cell no matter what. I'd say normieland "is an embarrassing place".)
(It reminds me of a Hungarian tech news/forum site which wrote (they probably still do, I just don't go there anymore lol) about Windows all the time, and highlighted each Linux vulnerability saying "see, that's why you should just stick to Windows" while they also wrote about Windows vulnerabilities so they contradicted themselves pretty noticably. And the sad thing is they have quite a lot of readers who are also brainwashed zombies shilling Windows in the comment section, and if a Linux user accidentally finds the way there, he/she quickly gets humiliated like crazy. So Linux users are the elitists? Hmm, not so sure about that lol)

OpenSSH 10.5 Ships Five Weeks After 10.4, Citing AI-Discovered Vulnerabilities as Reason for Faster Release Cadence:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/openssh-105-drops-five-weeks-early-to-fix-aidiscovered-vulnerabilities/

Intel XPU Manager 2.1 Released For Monitoring Arc Pro Graphics On Windows/Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-2.1

rsync 3.5.0 Drops with 33 CVEs Fixed, Plugging Symlink Race Conditions That Haunt Backup Pipelines:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/rsync-350-drops-33-cves-plugs-critical-symlink-race-conditions/

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #RaspberryPIImager #QEMU #FreeBSD #BSD #Redox #RedoxOS #Twitter #VLC #OpenSSH #SSH #XPU #Rsync #FosseryTech

With the cluster and storage down for maintenance this week, I thought about doing some #pytorch development locally an my laptop. No dedicated GPU, but a recent #intel Core Ultra 2 CPU. So first I went for the CPU-only packages.

Only yesterday I realized that the Windows task manager shows something called #npu in its charts. Fair enough, let's see whether pytorch can use it ...

I have to say, the #xpu pytorch integration has gone a long way. In my case, I could use it as a drop-in replacement for #cuda / #rocm pytorch, yet with the obvious performance differences between HPC GPUs and a laptop iGPU.

https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/get_start_xpu.html

Always nice to have alternatives. Especially for basic testing I don't need big (expensive) GPUs.

#AWS is facing a #cloudcrisis in the #GPU #XPU #Cloud era, trailing behind Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. However, AWS is poised for a resurgence, driven by its #partnership with #Anthropic, a leading #GenAI company. AWS is investing heavily in datacentres and custom Trainium chips to support Anthropic’s aggressive training and inference needs. https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/03/amazons-ai-resurgence-aws-anthropics-multi-gigawatt-trainium-expansion/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Then to render the custom AOV,
In the Karma Render Settings node, Image Output > AOVs (render vars) > Extra Render Vars > add new var and name it with the custom name defined in the Karma AOV node in the material #houdini #tip #karma #XPU #solaris

#AI #GPU clusters with one million GPUs are planned for #2027
#Broadcom predicts three of its clients, #hyperscalers, will deploy AI #supercomputers with one million #XPU in fiscal 2027. #HockTan, President and CEO, at Q4 2024 earnings call said "In 2027, we believe each of them plans to deploy 1,000,000 XPU clusters across a single fabric." It was rumored #ByteDance and #OpenAI teamed up with Broadcom to develop their AI chips. Broadcom, of course, does not mention names
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-gpu-clusters-with-one-million-gpus-are-planned-for-2027-broadcom-says-three-ai-supercomputers-are-in-the-works

I can highly recommend this funny and informative #Houdini talk by @tokyomegaplex

https://youtu.be/bYzffKN7CXQ

We're actually using #Karma #XPU in production right now for some water (where we don't need subsurface scattering). It takes just a few minutes to render (on an RTX 3090Ti) compared to 2 hours (on a Threadripper CPU). As long as the scene fits onto your graphics card...

#Intel #XPU #stablediffusion #deepbooru

#Intel #XPU #stablediffusion

#Intel Goes #Full #XPU: #Falcon #Shores to #Combine x86 and Xe for #Supercomputers

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17268/intel-goes-full-xpu-falcon-shores-to-combine-x86-and-xe-for-supercomputers