Lichtsäule, beleuchtet durch das rote Licht des glühenden Magmas des Vulkans Ätna.

: Davide Caliò;
Nasa

Vulkan is ready!
...for testing.

Help getting Vulkan ready by testing it and sharing your feedback with the developers. Learn more: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-feedback-and-testing/39900 #b3d #Vulkan

Magma in Bewegung: Wann wird eine Eruption ausgelöst?

Ein internationales Forschungsteam hat mit Beteiligung unserer Uni untersucht, wie lange es dauert, bis ein #Vulkan aufgrund von Prozessen tief im Erdinneren ausbricht. Dazu analysierte das Team Ablagerungen von einem #Vulkanausbruch vor etwa 40.000 Jahren: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html?id=7762

Forschung in #BulletinOfVolcanology: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-025-01812-5

Kilometerhohe Aschewolke nach Vulkanausbruch auf Philippinen

Auf den Philippinen ist der Vulkan Kanlaon ausgebrochen und hat eine mehrere Kilometer hohe Aschewolke in den Himmel gespuckt. Zahlreiche Anwohner wurden evakuiert, Schulen betroffener Dörfer sind geschlossen.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/vulkan-philippinen-122.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

I have #macos, #windows and #linux installations for #vulkan game engine development. On #macos I feel the walls of Apple's garden closing in from all sides. Windows has become a horrible mess. Window management is abysmal, winget, although a step in the right direction, breaks sometimes and don't get me started on ads in the Start menu of the Pro edition...WTF MS?!
The only thing superior in #macos is touchpad gestures and scrolling (sometimes) but I am not sure if this is due to hardware or software.
#Linux using #KDE or #GNOME just gets out of the way and simply works. Window management is great, even on the very opinionated #GNOME desktop with limited customization options. Everything feels swift, battery lifetime on my 5 year old Dell Precision is great and I appreciate having full control of the system without all this cloud account BS.
#gamedev

#DXVK 2.6.1 #Vulkan implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for #Linux is now available to improve support for Assassin’s Creed Origins, Hitman 2, LEGO Batman: The Video Game, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, and other video games. https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-6-1-improves-support-for-assassins-creed-origins-and-amd-vega-gpus

I'm quite disappointed by subgroupRotate or any other subgroup shuffle instructions. For both RDNA3+ & Ada Lovelace+, I thought that these instructions would be faster than e.g. going back and forth to LDS, but they look super slow.
And not a single GLSL code using such instructions on GitHub... while they have been around for many years.

Are subgroup instructions just not worth? Not used? Abandoned?

RDNA3+ ISA manual says it is using LDS hardware (but not mem), and so?

I have reworked filtering for the #Vulkan hardware database. A new settings page allows for more control over global filters applied to the data, hopefully making it easier to limit results to what people are actually looking for. Also added a QoL improvment for selecting your default platform:

https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04/05/improved-filtering-added-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database/

https://youtu.be/-Kgsv8nibpQ

Not sure if it's really newsworthy, but I'm making progress on my rust/Vulkan game engine.

Here the Sponza scene loaded from a gltf file, with some PBR lighting straight from https://learnopengl.com

Der Olympus Mons auf dem Planeten Mars ist der größte Vulkan unseres Sonnensystems. Er ist 22 km hoch und hat einen Durchmesser von fast 600 km.

#Vulkan #Berg #Mars #Planet #Sonnensystem #Space #Weltraum #Geologie

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons

#Vulkan

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-host-image-copy-3541523/

Mohawk Games continue releasing some pretty big updates to their Civilization like game Old World, with the latest aiming to fix up lots of issues and improve performance.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/historical-strategy-game-old-world-switches-to-vulkan-for-linux-steam-deck/

Hm, not happy with SPIR-V to ISA on my RDNA3 that is reordering loads from shared memory in some ways that it is actually slightly less efficient...

Is there a way to instruct the ISA compiler via GLSL to not reorder loads from shared mem? (Not workgroup/subgroup barriers but simple no-reordering) I haven't yet tried if volatile could do the trick

Anyone has some thoughts?

Hey #vulkan Community,
Isaak fliegt seine Drohne grade über den neuen Ausbruch bei Sundhnúkur auf #Island
#vulkanausbruch #eruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GAjSpf8toU

It seems that #Vulkan could be the real alternative for using #AI on GPUs or CPUs of any brand, without necessarily having to rely on #CUDA or #AMD's #ROCm. I thought #SYCL was the alternative. This might finally free us from of monopoly #Nvidia.
#Khronos