Intel introduced this morning on the second day of their Innovation 2023 convention that they’re collaborating with software program distributors comparable to Purple Hat, Canonical, and SUSE for offering Intel-optimized Linux distributions.
At Intel Innovation 2023 they’re speaking up the brand new UXL Basis that’s an evolution of their oneAPI initiative and as nicely one other attention-grabbing bit of reports to Phoronix readers as we speak is they’re selling their “optimized efficiency” push within the Linux world. Intel is participating Purple Hat, Canonical, and SUSE to:
“present Intel-optimized distributions of their enterprise software program releases to assist guarantee optimized efficiency for the newest Intel architectures.“
It is not a completely new endeavor. Up to now I’ve written a number of occasions about Canonical and Intel collaborating on Ubuntu optimized for choose Intel CPUs with totally different optimized photos. At this time’s Innovation 2023 announcement seems to be an extension of that effort.
Intel and Purple Hat at Innovation 2023 did announce an “expanded collaboration” with Intel contributing to upstream RHEL by means of CentOS Stream. Intel will even proceed contributing efficiency optimizations to varied instruments and frameworks, particularly within the AI house comparable to with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
Will probably be attention-grabbing to see what new fruits of those collaborations come. Intel continues to keep up their Intel-optimized Clear Linux platform with some actually aggressive efficiency optimizations however there hasn’t been an excessive amount of information there just lately. These enterprise Linux distributions (not less than Purple Hat and SUSE) have talked of elevating their x86_64 baseline necessities for his or her subsequent main releases, exploring HWCAPs for optimized libraries chosen at run-time based mostly on the CPU(s) in use, and comparable optimizations. We actually welcome another optimizations for efficiency and energy effectivity pursued by Intel and these distributors. With usually sticking to requirements/specs, many of those efforts may also repay for these operating AMD processors on Linux too.
I will actually be reporting extra on the outcomes of the elevated collaborations on Phoronix as new optimizations are launched — and naturally, the benchmarking. Kudos to Intel as at all times for his or her immense open-source/Linux software program ecosystem contributions throughout a number of ranges and numerous totally different open-source tasks.
