OpenCL 1.0 Specification Completed in Time for Snow Leopard
OpenCL provides programmers tools to speed up a wide variety of applications by taking advantage of untapped GPU processors and multi-core processors found in modern computers. Apple originally proposed OpenCL as part of their upcoming Snow Leopard operating system, and their release deadline helped accelerate the adoption of the specification. OpenCL has been developed and ratified by a number of industry companies including Apple, NVIDIA, ARM, Intel, and many others.
We are excited about the industry-wide support for OpenCL, said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering. Apple developed OpenCL so that any application in Snow Leopard, the next major version of Mac OS X, can harness an amazing amount of computing power previously available only to graphics applications.
For the end user, this should allow developers to more easily take advantage of existing hardware (GPUs, CPUs) to deliver faster software performance.Apple's Snow Leopard operating system (Mac OS X 10.6) is due for release in 2009 with recent hints pointing to the 1st quarter.
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If I understood correctly this Kronos group has developed the OpenCL under Apple? Seems to be something important but I'm not quite figuring out how important this is, if it is :o:apple:
To start with I was feeling meh about Snow Leopard but its slowly starting to interest me. No doubt I'll be standing in a queue by launch day.
See you there.
If I understood correctly this Kronos group has developed the OpenCL under Apple? Seems to be something important but I'm not quite figuring out how important this is, if it is :o:apple:
Kronos is just a standards group. So, this means it's an industry wide standard and not just something Apple is doing. But Apple proposed it, and plan on using it in Snow Leopard. It sounds very promising.
arn
What did catch my eye was the part about embedded systems. Makes me wonder if this might be an indicator with respect to future Apple products.
Dave
To start with I was feeling meh about Snow Leopard but its slowly starting to interest me. No doubt I'll be standing in a queue by launch day.
I pre-ordered Leopard at the time, no shipping sost and I actually had it a few hours earlier than the stores. If you wanna be "first", just pre-order.
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