Open Computing Language, or OpenCL, has been ratified and is ready for Snow Leopard. OpenCL is an open standard to extend the processing abilities of the GPU past just graphics. It was made by Khronos Group, and is available to more than just Apple.
But the most exciting use of OpenCL to many of us is likely its use in the upcoming Mac OS X v10.6, or Snow Leopard, to speed up processing by using the GPU where it previously wasn’t. Bertrand Serlet, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple, said about OpenCL, “We are excited about the industry-wide support for OpenCL. 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.”
Speaking of industry-wide support, companies like Intel, Texas Instruments, AMD, IBM, NVIDIA and many others are among supporters.
Via [TheMacObserver]
Even single-entity-humans are in, too.