The latest version of the open source digital audio workstation (DAW) adds the ability to work with audio that is associated with video files. It supports import, export and display of video with frame-by-frame granularity.
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STFC to Develop Hybrid Supercomputer Applications
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Daresbury in the U.K. has entered an agreement with Nvidia to help develop software for next-generation hybrid supercomputers.
This agreement combines NVIDIA’s leading-edge GPU accelerator technologies and HPC expertise with STFC’s software development expertise,” said David Corney, acting director of STFC’s Department of Scientific Computing. “This unique combination will enable the development of next-generation massively parallel applications, which will be used for exascale performance levels, or a thousand times more powerful than Blue Joule at STFC, the most powerful computer in the UK today.”
The collaboration will offer scientists access to one of the largest software development laboratories in the world, STFC’s Hartree Centre at Daresbury Laboratory, which is dedicated to modelling and simulation software, as well as to Nvidia’s expertise. Read the Full Story.
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LibreOffice Gets More Code Clean-up for 4.1.0
LibreOffice 4.1.0 is right around the corner and developers are busy as beavers getting it ready. One of the things featured this release might be hard for ordinary users to see, but is every bit as important. Continued code refinement and clean-up will make LibreOffice 4.1.0 more efficient, smaller, and easier to contribute to and compile.
Michael Meeks posted of all their efforts today “under-the-hood” that he said “may seem trivial in isolation but cumulatively add up to a code-base that is far easier to understand and to contribute to.” One of these is the build system that has now been fully converted to GNU make. Not only does this make it easier for users and distro developers to compile the code, but it also finishes much faster and leaves a smaller footprint. As Meeks put it, “No shell pollution, no ‘bootstrap’ script, no Perl build wrapper, no obsolete ‘dmake’ required, just plain GNU make files—and incredible build parallelism—after generating headers, we could utilize a thousand CPUs. This is a clean-cut task with a clear boundary; like the process of removing dead code in previous releases, it is now complete—freeing up developers for more interesting things.”
In other LibreOffice news, a LibreOffice Bug Confirmation (triage) Contest has begun.
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