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OpenCL
OpenCL Benchmark App Available for Snow Leopard
Earlier today I reported about OpenCL and the lack of applications that can use it now that Snow Leopard is here.
MacRumors has a report that there is already a OpenCL Benchmark Application available. With that app you can see the potential computing power you have in front of you from your GPU and CPU.
Somehow running the OpenCL Benchmark might even be more frustrating as you would see how much power would be available if there would be just OpenCL enabled software.
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Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
OpenCL Is Here Now In Snow Leopard, Where Are The Apps?
If you love your Mac, you have upgraded to Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 by now. One of the new most exciting features is the support for OpenCL. Apple says: "OpenCL in Snow Leopard is a technology that makes it possible for developers to tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently in the graphics processor and use it for any application."
Let's tap that fine power! But where are the OpenCL enabled Applications? One of the obstacles to ramp up OpenCL parallel computing apps is that NVIDIA still hypes CUDA and AMD also has their ATI Stream technology.
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Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:36:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
OpenCL and Apple a Love Story to take Center Stage at MacWorld 2009?
More and more rumors point towards a big showing of OpenCL at the MacWorld 2009 from Apple. We already reported that rumors point towards an early release of OS X Snow Leopard supporting OpenCL.
With OpenCL the NVIDIA GPU can be used in parallel to the CPU offering possibly dramatic performance increases.
New rumors point to iMac and Mac mini updates that bring NVIDIA GPUs to these systems.
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Posted on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:21:43 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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