Snow Leopard Amazing Features…

Snow leopard, the next version of Mac OS X is set for release in around about 3 months, while it has already been said that the upgrade will be purely maintenance, what they didnt mention, and something which i really think they should be boasting about, are some of these new features that they are developing for the Mac OS, which if licensed could actually change the way Windows PC’s run forever. The most prominent feature and amazing feature that will deliver this difference is called OpenCL, Open Computing Language, imagine this, you have a Macbook or any other Mac for that matter, being a Mac obviously it has a graphics card which most of the time is going unused, this Code converts the GPU, into a CPU ad effectivly gives you a triple core computer… stop reading if this sounds too nerdy…
Here is the quote, i won’t try explaining as i am quite tired.

“Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, OpenCL (Open Computing Language), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU). With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL takes that power and redirects it for general-purpose computing.”

So.. there you go, if you dont play games, then this is amazing… i’d like to see intel make a dual core run as a triple.

~ by geekmumblings on May 4, 2009.