Over the past number of months there has been a steady flow of Intel open-source projects archived on GitHub amid the corporate restructuring at the company and realigning of their open-source focus. This week another batch of Intel open-source projects were formally archived.
It's not only open-source code projects that have been formally disbanded on GitHub but as part of this latest batch of project archiving, they have also stopped the Intel Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism with supporting documentation on their open-source efforts and evangelists. While unfortunate to see something such basic happen especially with how they have been such vocal open-source proponents over the past two plus decades, this archival may stem from their lack of current open-source evangelists at the company.
The last of the bios featured in that Intel Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism was their open-source evangelist, Katherine Druckman, but she left Intel back in July. Only when going through these latest Intel GitHub changes did I realize that Druckman left Intel last year as another prominent open-source name at the company.
On the code side, this week Intel archived Predictive Assets Maintenance as an end-to-end AI solution using time-series data for predicting assets maintenance. For Intel's purposes, it was used to show the power of Intel Xeon server processors. Also archived was the High Density Scalable Load Balancer as a load balancer based on DPVS and DPDK. Their Double Batched FFT Library with Intel GPU support via OpenCL, Level Zero, and SYCL was also archived after it hasn't seen any new releases since last year. Also ended is the Intel Edge AI Performance Evaluation Toolkit for qualifying and evaluating platforms for deep learning inference performance on Intel hardware.