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Mesa 25.3 Intel Driver Lands Support For Stochastic Rounding

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A new feature merged this week for the Intel Mesa compiler code for their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers is support for Stochastic Rounding.

Stochastic Rounding "SRND" is now wired up for the Intel compiler code within Mesa 25.3. The SRND opcode appears to work with upcoming Intel Xe3 graphics hardware.

Stochastic Rounding can help with the accuracy of low-precision numerical computations and is a win for machine learning (AI/ML) and similar fields with low-precision arithmetic.

The SRND opcode and related Intel compiler handling is merged via [1]this MR ahead of Mesa 25.3 stable due out in November.



[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/36529


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Your Co-worker Could Be a Space Alien, Say Experts
...Here's How You Can Tell
Many Americans work side by side with space aliens who look human -- but you
can spot these visitors by looking for certain tip-offs, say experts. They
listed 10 signs to watch for:
(3) Bizarre sense of humor. Space aliens who don't understand
earthly humor may laugh during a company training film or tell
jokes that no one understands, said Steiger.
(6) Misuses everyday items. "A space alien may use correction
fluid to paint its nails," said Steiger.
(8) Secretive about personal life-style and home. "An alien won't
discuss details or talk about what it does at night or on weekends."
(10) Displays a change of mood or physical reaction when near certain
high-tech hardware. "An alien may experience a mood change when
a microwave oven is turned on," said Steiger.
The experts pointed out that a co-worker would have to display most if not
all of these traits before you can positively identify him as a space alien.
-- National Enquirer, Michael Cassels, August, 1984.

[I thought everybody laughed at company training films. Ed.]